This is the voice diary of Molly Daniels on day 14 as we approach Mount Everest base camp.

I'm travelling with Carl Smith up the mountain and when I say travelling, I mean carrying his dead weight.

Oh hey, Moll, thanks again for lending me all your spare gear.

Well, you really should have brought your own. And don't interrupt, please. I'm recording my diary,

which will probably be used in many famous books about me in the future.

Oh right, yep, of course.

And also, thanks so much for explaining everything about mountain climbing to me.

I guess I just wasn't really listening in training.

Yeah, you never went to training, Carl.

Remember?

Every day I called and asked if you were coming and you said you were really busy.

Oh, right, no, you're right. That's when I was making that

short crime noir film starring my cat. Today on Short and Curly, we have many obstacles ahead of us,

not just the giant mountain, but also some incredibly tricky ethical problems.

Like, why do people risk their lives and the lives of others just to get to the top of a mountain?

And when you get into treacherous life and death territory, do the normal rules of ethics still apply?

Should we even be climbing mountains at all, given all the difficult ethical questions mountaineering brings up?

One way or another, Carl and I are going to figure that out on our climb,

to the highest point on earth, known in Nepalese as Sagamatha, and to English speakers as Mount Everest.

Hello, and today you're listening.

Short, you're listening to Short and Curly.

Yay!

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