A Father’s Death in the Mountains—and What Came After

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 1999, Alex Lowe was a star climber and father to three young boys when he died on Tibet’s 26,335-foot Shishapangma along with expedition cameraman David Bridges. The lone survivor of the accident was Conrad Anker, Alex’s climbing partner and best friend. A year after the tragedy, Anker married Jennifer Lowe, Alex's widow and mother to their three young boys, Max, Sam, and Isaac. Ever since, storytellers have been captivated by this tale, but now a powerful new documentary by Max Lowe, Torn, reveals how grief can evolve over decades—and how love can heal even the deepest emotional wounds. In this episode, Lowe shares what it’s been like to tell his family’s story and what he hopes we can all learn from it. This episode is brought to you by Fat Tire, maker of delicious, easy-drinking beers and a company that’s taking action to address climate change. Join Fat Tire in calling on the International Olympic Committee to require all future sponsors of the Games to be be climate leaders at pointofsnowreturn.com

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0:00.0	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
0:15.7	Has it dawned on you that something that you created is also going to share a streaming
0:20.9	platform with like Luke Skywalker and the Avengers?
0:26.2	Because that's a thing that happens.
0:28.0	Yeah, I have thought about that.
0:30.0	I've thought about that a little bit for sure.
0:32.3	It's going to live next to Aladdin.
0:34.3	It's like, what?
0:36.1	That's Max Lo.
0:37.3	Talking with outside podcast, contributing producer Patti O'Connell
0:41.0	about his new documentary, Torn, just before it
0:43.9	began streaming on Disney Plus at the start of February.
0:47.8	Max is a 33-year-old award-winning filmmaker and photographer.
0:51.8	He's been to far-fetched exotic locales for shoots,
0:54.9	and he's had his picture taken on the red carpet
0:57.4	at film festivals like Kahn's and Tribeca.
1:00.6	But even Max can get a little slack job
1:03.1	when the house that Mickey Mouse built
1:05.0	plays his film for millions of viewers.
1:07.5	It's wild to think that it's going to be out in the world here
1:11.7	in a few short weeks in every country, the world across,
1:16.6	and many languages and touching people on that scale.
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