Hello, folks, Dan Snow here. I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit.

I'd love for you to be there. Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London, in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years.

You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes. Look forward to seeing you there.

Hi, buddy. Welcome to Dan Snow's history here. I've got the brilliant journalist and author

Ed Caesar on the podcast. That is a name for someone writing a history book, isn't it? Ed

Caesar. He came, he saw, and he conquered this particular publishing project. He joins him

on the podcast. Talk about the almost forgotten story of Britain's most mysterious mountain legend.

Morris Wilson, World War I veteran, an outsider who attempted to climb Everest alone.

I mean, the story is completely ridiculous.

He actually attempted to crash an aircraft into the lower slopes of Everest and begin his

climb that way. Complete, completely remarkable. Ed Caesar has rescued this story, really,

from complete obscurity. It's the subject of his new book, The Moth of the Mountain,

and it was a wonderful opportunity to get this fantastic writer on the podcast,

talk about an extraordinary story. Ed's a writer for the New Yorker. He's won several

very prestigious awards and it's a great pleasure to have him here on the podcast. If you want

to watch documentaries to go along with your audio pleasure, you can do so. We've just released

the documentary in search of my father, which is a beautiful

story of a man now in his 80th year whose father was killed eight months before he was born. I take him to a

museum in the Midlands of England and unite him with an aircraft in which his father may have flown. It's

very, very special. That's all available at History Hit TV. We've also got a documentary on the centenary of the burial of the unknown soldier and Westminsterrabby. The unknown soldier was buried this week 100 years ago. So lots going on in history at TV. Please go and check it out. If you use the code pod 1, POD 1, you get a month for free and then your second month for just one pound euro or dollar. So if you're listening in England or you are in parts of the US, other parts of Europe where you are locked down, you can drink your fill of all the wonderful history documentaries on history hit TV.

In the meantime, everybody, here is Ed Caesar. Enjoy. Ed, great to have you on the podcast.

Thank you so much.

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