Hi, I'm Elise.

Hello, I'm Amy with Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas.

And you're listening to The Happy Palad on the BBC World Service.

Hi, I'm Janet Jaliel, and in this edition...

The thought and idea of being able to impact other families and help save other babies, it feels good.

The woman who's helped thousands of premature babies by donating her breast milk, the hiker who survived two weeks alone in Australia's snowy mountains.

Also, playing against someone like him was like this really huge moment that I

never thought would happen. It was almost like I didn't have time to be nervous because it was

all happening so fast. What's it like to take on one of basketball's biggest stars at chess?

And we hear from the man who's just completed an incredible seven-year expedition through 17 countries.

Nothing is impossible.

And if you prepare well and you understand what you're getting into,

I think 99% of the time you're going to have an amazing experience.

Welcome. We start with a mother who's helped thousands of premature babies

by donating her excess breast milk over the past decade and a half.

Elise Ogletree, who's 36 and from Texas in the United States, set a new Guinness

World Record by giving more than 2,000 litres to what are known as milk banks, charities which

provide breast milk for babies whose mothers can't produce enough themselves. The milk is frozen

and pasteurised and much of it goes to sick or premature babies

in neonatal intensive care units or NICUs who badly need the protections from infection and disease

that only come from human breast milk. Alice is a mother of three who's also been a surrogate.

The Happy Pod's Holly Gibbs spoke to Alice and Amy Trotter from the charity Texas Milkbank,

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