Everest Expedition: Decision Time at the Summit

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 1991 Mount Everest is a very different place than it is today. A young American arrives at the remote outpost of Base Camp intent on tackling the planet’s tallest peak. Using the last of his student loan, Dan Mazur has blagged his way onto a Soviet climbing team. But his unlikely friendship with the group will come under the severest strain as things unravel on the mountain. When his partner collapses near the summit, Dan must make a terrible choice. What happens next will change him forever… A Noiser production, written by Angus Gavan McHarg. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On the 60th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
0:03.4	One gift that's late, left behind the gate next to the plant pot,
0:07.5	Not quite a safe spot, they've shown no respect, no wonder it was wrecked.
0:12.6	My parcel delivery.
0:15.8	Want to know what to do next?
0:17.5	Which, get it right this Christmas.
0:22.5	It's October the 10th, which. Get it right this Christmas. It's October the 10th, 1991.
0:26.6	Golden light, shimmers across the snow-covered Himalayas.
0:31.4	Vast glaciers weave down valleys, jagged rivers of ice, frozen in time.
0:40.3	Above all, a titan looms. Everest. Epic tales are etched into this mountain, written by those who dare to climb it.
0:48.3	In the highest reaches, 26,000 feet up, the air is ice thin.
0:56.0	Wind and snow swirl all around.
0:59.0	The temperature is minus 30 degrees Celsius and plummets further as the sun sets.
1:05.0	Just below the summit, a lone climber trudges on the perilous slopes.
1:11.6	28-year-old Dan Mazur is a tiny grain on an endless rock face.
1:20.6	Not long before, he was descending the mountain, attempting to escape the freezing peak before nightfall.
1:26.6	But he has had to turn back around, because his climbing partner attempting to escape the freezing peak before nightfall.
1:32.9	But he has had to turn back around, because his climbing partner, Raman, is missing.
1:38.1	Somehow, he's fallen so far behind that Dan has lost track of him.
1:45.0	Dan steadies himself against the rising winds and scans the snowy ridge for his friend. In the twilight, he is nowhere to be seen.
1:49.0	We're hiking down, it got dark and got really windy.
1:54.0	We had our headlamps on, and then I didn't see Roman's headlamp.
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