Fellow time travelers, how the devil are you? Great to have you with me as we travel through space and time together.

More and more of us all the time. We're quite a scrum now moving through infinity.

Big thanks as always to everyone who's joined me on my Patreon site. It's the

support, the financial support when you get right down to it that keeps the wheels on

the bus and helps us call and I keep this series happening. So if you're

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Okay, it's now time to strap into the time machine as we set off towards the next stop

and my love letter to the world. Recer, microphone, action.

The 4th of June, 1924, they set off from Advanced Base Camp at 21,330 feet above sea level.

As the cloud clears, two black dots are briefly seen from a distance moving against the snow,

suspended in the space between Earth and forever. In the tragedy of their loss is the unblemished heart of adventure.

Endeavoring to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future. I'm Neil Oliver and this it was 1918 when the world's deadliest pandemic took its grip.

Where are we this week?

Hi Paul and fellow time travellers. Yes, last week we walked in a world devastated by years of

war, a war which was still raging, now severely weakened that world.

That population found itself facing an even deadlier foe.

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