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every day capable welcome back to another episode of disaster strikes I'm your host Casey

McIntosh today we're headed to the roof of the world to tell you about a young man whose story will haunt you long after

you've stopped listening. While our regular episodes focus on survival stories where people

overcome incredible odds, this segment examines outdoor adventures that ended in tragedy.

These stories paint a clear picture of how things could go wrong in the wilderness,

and the cascade of decisions often small and seemingly wrong in the wilderness, and the cascade of decisions

often small and seemingly reasonable in the moment, they can lead to devastating outcomes.

Today's story takes us to Mount Everest, where the line between glory and death is as thin

as air at 29,000 feet. It's about a 23-year-old French snowboarder named Marco Sifredi, whose nickname was

Lange Blonde, the blonde angel. Marco didn't just dream of snowboarding down the world's

Tulles Mountain. He did it, successfully. And then, driven by an obsession that would consume him,

he went back to attempt a route so dangerous that mountaineers called it

the greatest line never skied.

What happened next involved mysterious apparitions seen by Sherpas,

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