Nightmare at 21,000 Feet

Late Nights with Nexpo

Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 801 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 1973, eight Americans set out to scale one of the tallest peaks in the world. Only six of them came back. Decades later, a frozen camera is recovered from the ice — and reignites one of mountaineering’s darkest mysteries.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to new episodes of Late Nights with Nextpo, early and ad-free right now.
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0:11.5	Lamont Jones is shattered when his cousin dies just weeks after entering prison.
0:16.5	The official report says natural causes, but bruises and missing teeth tell a different story.
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0:33.0	As you hike up the glacial field, you spot something in the ice.
0:38.5	It's dark brown and black, definitely some kind of man-made object,
0:43.8	perhaps a piece of climbing equipment from a past expedition.
0:48.5	You take out your ice axe and start chipping it free.
0:53.4	Soon, you can make out what exactly it is.
0:57.5	An old 35 millimeter camera.
1:00.5	The lens is cracked, but the camera body is intact.
1:04.5	The film inside might still be salvageable.
1:08.3	Something else in the ice catches your eye, something vividly red.
1:13.2	You gasp as the realization hits you.
1:16.6	It's a human arm sawed off at the shoulder.
1:20.8	The body it was once attached to is nowhere to be found.
1:26.0	As you recover from the shock, questions begin to flood your mind.
1:30.6	What exactly happened here?
1:32.8	Who did this arm belong to?
1:34.7	And might the film inside this camera hold the answers?
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