12/21/2025: The Sherpas of Everest, Presenting the Kanneh-Masons

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Correspondent Cecilia Vega journeys to the Himalayas for the adventure of a lifetime—trekking to Everest Base Camp at the foot of the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest. Guiding her is 19-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa, the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world’s highest peaks. He embodies a new generation of Nepali climbers demanding recognition on the global stage. Correspondent Jon Wertheim travels to Nottingham, England, to visit the Kanneh-Mason family—seven siblings, each still under 30, all celebrated classical musicians whose talent is truly music to the ears. Supporting one another in harmony as they take to the world’s stage, this extraordinary septet, as Wertheim discovers, is an orchestra greater than the sum of its parts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.4	Sign up for your £1 per month breathtaking climb to base camp on Mount Everest.
0:44.9	I am not looking down. Don't talk. Oh, God. It's windy. I do not like this at all.
0:52.0	We hiked 10 days into thin air.
0:55.0	Welcome to Everest Base Camp.
0:56.6	Our guides were the Sherpas who risked their lives to assist climbers.
1:01.3	We found there's little margin for error on the journey to Everest.
1:09.3	This is the setting that produced what is surely the most statistically improbable story in classical music history.
1:17.0	Seven siblings, each a virtuoso by almost any definition.
1:21.7	They have performed at the world's great concert halls, recorded chart-topping albums, won prestigious awards.
1:29.9	Meet the Connie Masons. I'm Leslie Stahl.
1:55.8	I'm Scott Pelly.
1:57.1	I'm Anderson Cooper.
1:58.3	I'm Sharon Al Fonzie.
1:59.7	I'm John Wertheim. I'm Cecilia Vega. I'm Nora O'Donnell. I'm Bill Cooper. I'm Sharon Alphonse. I'm John Worthheim.
2:01.1	I'm Cecilia Vega.
2:02.4	I'm Nora O'Donnell.
2:03.9	I'm Bill Whitaker.
2:05.4	Those stories and in our last minute, an 18-letter milestone.
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2:24.3	Song Sung Blue is filled with love and laughter.
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