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First Expeditions to Mount Everest

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Culture, Humor, Popculture, Satire, Wikipedia, Comedy, Society, Wiki, Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Mount Everest[3] is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point.[4] Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1⁄2 in) was most recently established in 2020 by the Chinese and Nepali authorities.[5][6]

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0:00.0

The Hello and welcome the citation needed the podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about it on

0:27.5

Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this the internet that's how it works now I'm

0:32.0

Eli Bosnick and I'll be your guide among the summits of comedy this evening,

0:35.7

but I'll need some Sherpas of chicanery. Noah, Heath, Tom, and Cecil, gentlemen,

0:41.5

welcome to the podcast you're on.

0:44.0

Sherpa's of chicanery is the name of my

0:46.8

Barbershop Quartet.

0:48.8

We're playing at the Y after your grudge band. So. Finally, white male podcasters, the unsung heroes of every journey getting there.

1:00.0

Yeah.

1:01.0

Okay.

1:02.0

Fentanyl brownie, the grudge band is pretty awesome. I feel like you were making fun of it.

1:05.0

Thank you.

1:06.0

Also, fun fact, lots of people use Sherpa to mean like a general term for mountain

1:11.7

guide, but it's actually the name of the Himalayan people

1:14.4

indigenous to an area near the border of modern day Nepal and Tibet.

1:19.3

And if you look at the graph for the usage of that word over time, it looks like a mountain that starts around 1950.

1:28.0

How fun was that fact?

1:32.0

Very fun.

1:33.0

Very fun.

1:34.0

Not for them, but for everyone else, it's very fun.

1:36.0

I think it's a fun fact.

1:38.0

You know, I didn't capitalize Sherpa, he's a bigot.

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