Deadliest Day on Everest

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As his surname suggests, Jules Mountain is a man destined to scale the heights. After battling cancer and emerging with a new lease of life, he takes on the epic challenge of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when an enormous earthquake causes the slopes to crumble around him, Jules is once again left staring death in the face… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Nicole Edmunds | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound design by Tom Pink, Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The stage is set.
0:01.5	Another massive performance needed.
0:03.8	Look at this, Jason.
0:04.5	They're outwarming up already.
0:07.5	Listen to that.
0:08.6	Pitch perfect.
0:09.8	George, they just keep going.
0:11.4	The best fans in the world?
0:12.9	Probably.
0:14.4	Carlsberg.
0:15.3	Proud supporters of Irish football.
0:17.2	Get the facts.
0:17.9	Be Drinkaware.
0:18.7	Visit drinkaware.
0:20.3	I'm Julie Andrews, and it is my great pleasure to bring you Jane Austen Stories, the new show from the Noiser Podcast Network. I'll be reading Pride and Prejudice. We'll walk grand estates and take tea with well-dressed gentlewomen, but in this tranquil corner of England, not everything is quite as it appears.
0:45.9	Listen to Jane Austen's stories wherever you get your podcasts.
0:53.4	It's the afternoon of April 25, 2015.
0:57.0	17.5,000 feet above sea level, on the Himalayan border between Nepal and Tibet, lies Everest
1:05.0	base camp. The enormous, bright, white glacier is dotted with dozens of orange, blue and green tents,
1:12.6	all held down by ropes which creak and sway in the brisk breeze.
1:18.6	Surrounding the tents are hundreds of flags from all over the world,
1:22.6	adding patriotic splashes of color to this monochromatic landmass.
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