Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

I'd like to begin today by telling you a story, a true story about an Englishman named George

Mallory. I am convinced that he was the very first person to ascend to the summit

of Mount Everest all the way back in 1924. Now if you know your history, you know I'm off by a bit.

History books record that Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the peak's top in 1953.

But I think they've got it wrong.

And I'd like a chance to tell you George's story.

It was his entire life's mission to ascend to the top of the 29,000-foot mountain.

He trained for it. He practiced it.

He worked his way up from smaller mountains towards this largest one.

He had made, previous to 1924, two failed attempts to reach the top. In his second

attempt, he was so close, within just a thousand feet. But an avalanche took the lives of seven of the

Sherpers, the workers who were accompanying him.

He was already, by the way, world famous for that.

He'd traveled to America to talk about reaching as high as anyone ever had,

but it wasn't enough for him.

He wanted to get to the top.

So he kept training.

He learned from his mistakes. He made some adjustments.

And in June of 1924, at the age of 37, accompanied by a 22-year-old fellow named Andrew Irving,

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