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The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 83 - The King of the Mountain

The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 1979, a four person Cessna crashed on the frozen peak of a California mountain. One of those people on board was a remarkable 11 year old boy named Norman Ollestad, Jr., and he would be pushed to the limits as he attempted to climb down the mountain alone.  Notes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BD2UQ6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/21/archives/boy-survives-air-crash-and-trek-in-snow-huddled-under-wing-he-never.html Music: Dexter Britain, The Tea Party http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/ Kai Engel, March, Floret, Difference, January, Far From Home, Laceration, Heart and Mind, Rejecting the Sirens, Nothing http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When I was a little kid every winter my friends and I used to play a game we called the King of the Mountain.

0:38.0

What we did was wait until the snow got deep enough and the snow plows had come through my neighborhood and built a nice

0:43.5

size hill smack dab in the middle of the suburban court I lived on. Then my friends

0:49.3

and I would all pile on top of the hill and try to shove each other off it. If you fell off the hill you were dead

0:55.7

and out of the game. But the last one standing, well, he became the King of the Mountain.

1:05.9

Of course this wasn't exactly an original concept.

1:09.7

You may have played some variation on this game yourself growing up.

1:17.0

At its heart, the game is all about survival, and about seeing who has what it takes to make it against all odds. Those are heavy concepts for a child, and they're the sort of things you never consider when you're young and believe you're

1:23.4

indestructible.

1:25.9

Back in 1979 a remarkable 11-year-old boy played his own game of King of the Mountain.

1:31.2

Only his game contained truly deadly stakes.

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