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

base camp. I'm traveling with Carl Smith up the mountain and when I say

traveling I mean carrying his dead weight. Oh hey mole 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 car, 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 no you're right that's when I was making that short crime noir film starring my cat.

Mm. 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 Saguatha and to English speakers as Mount Everest. Sure and curly. curly. Yay!

Surely, curly, curly, curly, curly,

curly, curly, curly,

kearly,

Jordan girly.

Come on Carl, just a little further to base camp.

Carl?

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