The Happiness Quotient

Years ago Mount Everest was considered a mountaineer’s mountain, where a climber need only worry most about avalanches, hidden crevasses and the potential to succumb to Altitude Mountain Sickness.

But…

All that glitters is not gold: How Did This Climber Get Away with So Much for So Long?*

In the world of mountaineering and climbing, where the peaks are high and the challenges even higher, there's an…

The 2024 Everest climbing season may go down in history for its extraordinary mix of achievements, controversies, and tragedies.  From record-breaking summits and political tensions, lives lost, igno…

May 10, 1996: near the summit of Mount Everest a storm of unimaginable ferocity strikes, claiming the lives of eight climbers and leaving others stranded in a fight for survival. This is the story of…

The cult-like mystique of Bus 142 and the story of Chris McCandless is a magnet for millions around the world. In the heart of the mysterious Alaskan wilderness, where nature's beauty and brutality c…

He’s 19 years old. His name is Ryan Mitchell. He had a dream that started a year and a half ago. He saved some money that he made from his 2 million subscriber YouTube channel. He went to Mount Evere…

Here is Part II of my exceptional conversation with Wade Davis about such things as:
• Grateful Dead & the internet
• Mao Tse-tung
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Biologically race is total fiction & racism …

The 100th Anniversary of the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine on Mount Everest on 8 June 1924 with Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence: The Great War Mallory, and the Conquest of E…

Hey friends, thanks for stopping by. I want to take a few minutes to talk about the future of Everest Mystery, where we're going and what the future holds for all of us. Thanks for being a part of th…

This is PART TWO of a two part series on Everest's worst year. 

People who want to climb Mount Everest are motivated, goal oriented people with mental and physical toughness. In recent years more and …

If you ever wanted to climb Mount Everest you will want to watch this video first.

I'm going to give you TEN good reasons why not to climb Mount Everest (actually 18). In PART I of this 2-part series …

Mount Everest is like a ticking time b*mb or a kettle that's about to boil. With about 50 successful summits and the season half over,  hundreds of climbers are waiting for weather to turn for the be…

These days many people are often very cynical about Mount Everest. When they hear about it or think about it they think Mount Everest is a place with a pile of abandoned bodes, often with images of g…

Thom Pollard dedicated two whole years of your life to a quest on Mount Everest. A quest to solve the mystery of the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine in 1924. Imagine that you've pour…

*The mountaineering world was turned on its head on May 1, 1999 when the remains of George Mallory was discovered by Conrad Anker at about 26,750 feet or 8153 meters on the vast north face of Everest…

Near the summit of Mount Everest in the death zone on the ridge of the north face there is a shallow cave, known infamously to all who climb there as the location where in 1996 an Indian man named Ts…

"Do you think great expense and risk should be undertaken to remove bodies from Mount Everest?" The Indian government mounted an expensive and risky expedition to retrieve the remains of mountaineers…

Interview with mountaineer Willi Steindl, who witnessed over 70 people stepping over Muhammed Hassan as he lay dying in the Death Zone on K2.

The death of Mohammad Hassan on K2 has sent shockwaves th…

My guest today was the FIRST to reach the DEEPEST point of the ocean, known as Challenger Deep. In 1960 US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and  Swiss oceanographer and explorer Jacques Piccard piloted the …

Angela Benavides is a High-Altitude Mountaineering and Climbing journalist for Explorers Web - https://explorersweb.com/

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