#1616 The Family that Summited Everest

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Clay Jenkinson’s interview with adventurer Alan Mallory about his family’s ascent of Mount Everest. That’s 29,032 feet, a third of it in the Death Zone, where your body actually starts to die from lack of oxygen and other factors. Mallory walks us through the process—getting to Nepal, the cost, the outfitters, the journey to base camp, where you stay to adjust to the altitude, and then the slow, steady, and exhausting climb through four camps before attempting the summit. On the basis of his book, The Family that Conquered Everest, Mallory has a vibrant career as a motivational speaker. At the end he shares his adventures are ahead.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to this podcast introduction to this week's program.
0:03.7	An interview I had with Alan Mallory of Canada of Ontario who is the author of a book
0:10.8	The Family that Concord Everest about a journey he made in 2008 with his
0:16.4	family to the highest summit in the world. His father has done all seven.
0:22.6	He's done a couple, but these were four,
0:25.2	was really originally going to be five,
0:27.9	but their mother was unable to do it
0:30.8	because she hurt her Achilles tendon. And so the four of them, the father and the
0:35.9	three sibbs made their way up and they did it.
0:40.5	They summoned at Mount Everest. It's an amazing story. Wow, so let's go to the show
0:45.9	because it's just so very interesting.
0:50.3	Hello everyone and welcome to the special edition of
0:56.3	listening to America actually it's listening to Canada today.
1:00.2	Across from me at least virtually is Alan Mallory, who is a motivational speaker and an adventurer, among other things, an author.
1:07.0	One of the things that attracted me to your bio from the beginning, Alan, is that you and three others in your family climbed Mount Everest together and became the first family to summit at the same time.
1:22.0	So we'll talk at some length about that, but welcome.
1:25.4	Oh, thank you, Clay.
1:26.5	How old are you now?
1:27.8	I am 39 now.
1:29.1	All right, so 39 you've climbed Everest, you know.
1:31.7	One of the things I think about is Mary
1:33.1	whether Lewis when he came back from the Lewis and Kark expedition and and his
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