S1 E17: Dave Rodney: Retracing Michael Matthews’ last steps
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Dave Rodney, simply known as California Dave or Sherpa Dave - despite the fact that he's from Canmore in Canada - joins me for this bonus interview on Big Fish. He's one of Canada's most accomplished climbers - and the only Canadian to summit Everest twice - he's a politician, businessman and philanthropist, but most importantly, he was my brother Michael’s climbing partner on his Everest expedition in 1999. Dave was one of the last people to see Mike alive. Their dream was to reach the summit together, but unfortunately fate had other plans. Dave takes me back to the day they reached the top of the world - and Mike became the youngest Briton to reach the summit - and what happened when he realised my brother had not come back down.
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| 0:00.0 | Look at him go. |
| 0:01.5 | He's a quality striker. |
| 0:02.8 | No, not him. |
| 0:03.7 | The electrician fixing those lights. |
| 0:05.5 | Wow. |
| 0:06.2 | Is he? |
| 0:06.9 | Yes, he uses QuickBooks to prepare for self-assessment. |
| 0:10.3 | This is truly game-changing. |
| 0:12.9 | Use QuickBooks year-round to ensure your income tax return is shock-free. |
| 0:17.0 | That's how you business differently. |
| 0:18.9 | Into its QuickBooks. |
| 0:22.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | He said, do you think I have enough time? |
| 0:28.8 | Every climber has to make that decision for themselves, right? |
| 0:31.6 | I said, how are you feeling? |
| 0:33.1 | He said, again, I'm very tired, but I've got enough. |
| 0:36.2 | I can go. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah. Again, I'm very tired, but I've got enough. I can go. Honorable Dave Rodney, simply known as California Dave or Sherpa Dave, joins me for this bonus |
| 0:47.0 | interview on Big Fish. |
| 0:51.6 | He's a politician, businessman and philanthropists, but most importantly to me, he was my brother Michael's close friend and climbing partner on his Everest expedition in 1999. |
| 1:01.0 | Dave was one of the last people to see Michael alive. Their dream was to reach the summit together, but unfortunately fate had other plans. |
| 1:09.0 | In this very personal interview, Dave takes me back to the day that they reached the top of the world, |
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