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30 Morbid Minutes

Death on Mount Everest

30 Morbid Minutes

30 Morbid Minutes

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8731 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Over 200 climbers have lost their lives attempting to summit Mount Everest. The majority of the dead are still on the mountain, frozen in time, their bodies serving as both landmarks for aspiring hikers, and a solemn reminder of what can happen during a climb gone wrong. We investigate the dangers of climbing Everest, how human remains are brought down from the mountain, the tragic history of the Sherpa, and more. Follow us on Social: https://twitter.com/elysewillems https://twitter.com/JessicaVasami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0

Have you ever thought about what happens to the hikers who don't survive the heroin climb up Mount Everest?

0:41.2

Welcome to 30 Morbin Minutes.

1:06.2

This is the podcast where we take an episodic deep dive into topics, places, people, and things of a morbid, macabre, dark, and downright grisly nature.

1:08.1

I'm Elise Willems.

1:09.7

And I'm Jessica Vasami.

1:38.6

And Jessica, this episode is pretty dark. So fair warning on that. I know. I'm ready for it, I think. And hopefully we treat this as respectfully as possible. Absolutely. And that is our intention. And I hope we manage that. As a lot of this is still going on right now as we speak. Yeah. in some current event news, as we record this episode, Jost Kobush, he's this young German mountain climber, is alone on Mount Everest attempting his first solo ascent ever.

1:43.9

And solo ascent means he has no guides with him, which people usually have guides alongside them.

1:45.3

And Jess, here's the big kicker too. He also has no oxygen. Yeah, no. I can't do that. I had trouble when I was in

1:50.9

Colorado breathing and I wasn't even on a mountain. I was just, you know, at just the base level

1:57.0

being in Colorado. Just elevation there. Yeah, I had to go to, like, the store and get one of those little oxygen tanks that you just

2:03.2

breathe out.

2:03.9

I don't know if you've seen those little tanks.

2:05.8

But I was doing that the entire time.

2:07.2

I was getting dizzy.

2:08.6

It's awful.

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