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Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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After a severe blizzard engulfs Mount Everest on May 10th, fifteen people are left stranded on the mountain, unable to find their way back to camp, or too weak to even try. In the early hours of May 11th, rescue efforts are launched to save people before they succumb to altitude sickness or hypothermia. Climbers, and friends down below, must face the sad reality that the odds of them surviving are slim. But, due to heroic acts, not all is lost.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to Against the Odds early in ad free right now.
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0:09.0	A listener note, Against the Odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events.
0:15.6	Some elements, including dialogue, may be invented,
0:19.0	but everything is based on research. Anatole Buchraev staggers across the rocky terrain.
0:27.0	Anatole Buchraev staggers across the rocky terrain of the South called on Mount Everest.
0:35.7	It's pitch dark and he's about a quarter mile east of Camp Four at an icy
0:45.0	icy wind blasts across the plateau chilling him to the bomb.
0:50.0	It's past two in the morning on May 11th, 1996.
0:55.0	For over an hour, the Russian guide has been desperately searching for five stranded climbers.
1:01.0	The previous afternoon, most of them were celebrating on the top of Everest. But due to delays, they had arrived late in the day, and on their descent back to camp, a brutal storm engulfed the mountain.
1:15.0	As night fell, the climbers got lost in the blinding white out.
1:20.0	They've been stranded for so long now Anatole fears the worst. He knows there's
1:27.4	also at least one more person in desperate need of his help. His boss, Scott Fisher, the leader of Mountain Madness, is a
1:36.2	thousand feet up the mountain with no oxygen fighting for his life.
1:42.6	Before leaving camp, Anatole knew he couldn't accomplish both rescues by himself.
1:48.8	He tried to rally support from the Sherpa's and climbers sheltering there, but everyone was either too exhausted or
1:55.1	snowblind or delirious from a lack of oxygen.
1:59.6	He couldn't find a single volunteer. Still he soldered on. He found a canister of oxygen, filled a
2:08.1	thermus of hot tea, and headed into the storm alone.
2:13.2	It's still too dangerous for him to climb up to Scott
2:16.2	in the Blizzard, so he decided to focus his energies
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