Is that an icicle in your pocket or are you just happy to see us? The boner jokes continue in part 2 of our Mt. Everest series!
Is that an icicle in your pocket or are you just happy to see us? The boner jokes continue in part 2 of our Mt. Everest series!
Join the ladies as we talk about life and death here on Earth! Some people get saved from Everest, but also…some don’t. Popsicle people everywhere!
Resources for Lost Nuclear Device:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanda_Devi_Plutonium_Mission#cite_note-wired-1
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/18/archives/desai-says-usindian-team-lost-atomic-spy-gear-no-comment-from-us.html
https://www.thebetterindia.com/253759/nanda-devi-nuclear-device-expedition-captain-manmohan-singh-kohli-central-intelligence-agency-america-intelligence-bureau-india-secret-government-mission-raini-uttarakhand-glacier-burst-history-myster/
https://www.wired.com/2013/04/cia-himalayan-spies/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/james-bond-in-the-himalayas-the-buried-secret-of-nanda-devi/articleshow/65350186.cms
Yeti Resources:
https://www.mossgate.lancs.sch.uk/serve_file/570306#:~:text=The%20yeti%20can%20stand%20at,they%20said%20was%20a%20Yeti.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2017/09/28/on-exhibit-the-yeti-memo/#:~:text=It%20stipulated%20that%20the%20Yeti,rupees%20to%20the%20Nepalese%20government.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/health/yeti-scientific-proof-study/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-16264752
https://www.amazon.com/Snowed-Yeti-Erotic-Monster-Romance-ebook/dp/B0BLSTMGZL
https://www.amazon.com/Seduced-Bigfoot-Ravaged-Yeti-humiliation-ebook/dp/B01E66FG9I
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLHTCYRB/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20
https://www.amazon.com/Saved-Yeti-Monster-Erotica-Stories-ebook/dp/B0BL6DDKNL
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Speaker 1 0:00
So, Jamie, you know how boomers are fucking crazy?
Unknown Speaker 0:04
Yes, lead poisoning.
Speaker 1 0:06
I'm going to show you a real PSA that was on TV
Unknown Speaker 0:28
I just got home at work all the way back today with love, love, love, love love. She's a person just like you. She's got feelings too so give her give her view at this smile, you'll know it's done. This message is brought to you by the station and the Kentucky Department for human resources in the interest of our children, by the way, you
Unknown Speaker 1:31
um oh my god.
Unknown Speaker 1:36
"I could just slap your face"
Speaker 3 1:39
Wow. I'm just surprised that there's they needed a PSA for that. And like, I don't know, some people just shouldn't have kids.
Speaker 1 1:51
Yeah, there's another one as well that I'll play in the future as a special surprise.
Unknown Speaker 1:59
I could slap your face?
Unknown Speaker 2:01
Or it's like, "she's a person just like you"
Speaker 3 2:07
oh man. Yeah. Wild. Yeah. adults that have kids, their people and yeah, I don't know. You were a kid once. How do you not know that?
Speaker 1 2:22
You don't you forget cuz you're on the nervous laughter Podcast. I'm Jamie. I'm Alyssa. And have you hugged your kids today? Yeah, they're human beings too. He forgot.
Speaker 3 2:39
And we are human beings. And some human beings like to climb very tall things. Yes. Like they do ever is not talking about David Blaine. Talking about Mount Everest mountain near. And
Unknown Speaker 2:59
dear mountain today.
Unknown Speaker 3:00
Have you hugged your Sherpa today?
Unknown Speaker 3:03
Yeah, that's vicious native base thing. And
Speaker 3 3:06
yeah, so in the in the last Mount Everest episode. If you haven't listened to that, just do a little pause and jump back to the last episode. Sherpas are super badass, and they will save people from mountains and I'll talk a little bit about how people get saved for Mount Everest and the Sherpas are a huge part of that.
Speaker 1 3:30
Gangsters of the mountain. Yes, it is true. Positive gangster not steal your money and shoot you and stuff.
Unknown Speaker 3:41
Yeah, they're up there with guns and doing drum drive. What are your popper?
Speaker 1 3:51
Sounds like we're doing some sex drugs.
Speaker 3 3:56
It's a weapon. It's like better than weapons. It's true. Um, but yeah, so in the last episode, I mentioned that there's insurance that climbers must get to go to the mountain. And Gary there Boehner up the mountain. Yes. I'm poppin boners. And so I looked at information from National Geographic and a couple other articles. What I got from National Geographic was traveling via helicopter. They find those in danger if they can't safely land their aircraft at the scene. They deploy a technique called long line rescue a lot of school. You just laugh sources like
Speaker 1 4:47
they're kind of funny looking. I've seen a couple of videos somewhere.
Speaker 3 4:51
Have you seen the video? This isn't like from a Mount Everest rescue but it was like the person got like lifted from the long line and the third thing just kept spinning. Your round superfan
Speaker 1 5:05
feels so embarrassing. I mean, yeah, it's saving your life. Yeah, it's worth it but how embarrassing
Speaker 3 5:14
just cover my whole body. So you can't see me look like a ghost. Um, so, so yeah, I think a lot of people probably already have a vision of what this is and sort of talking about it. But yeah, a long spool of what rope will unwind and they repel it down to the victim so they can, you know, tie their body to the stretcher thing to the rope and get flown get fun away, you know, they just dangle there. I think in some cases, they pull them in, obviously, but I just I did a really bad job when getting research for this part. So
Speaker 1 5:53
I'm sorry once I've seen it's just like them dangling. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 3 5:57
Okay. For some reason my brains like they go in the helicopter. But maybe in a lot of cases they don't you pull them in? Maybe they like it to a safe spot, I
Speaker 1 6:07
guess. Yeah. Or I guess it could be like the helicopters just flying around and you like pick them up and then drop them off and then go do other shit. So maybe they never come up in it? Because they think or something? Yeah.
Speaker 3 6:21
Um, yeah, I don't know. It'd be funny to if they're just like both. They're flying. It's like hitting all these rocks. Like, along the way. We're gonna get you out of here.
Speaker 1 6:31
In the face of a tree. I guess they are above the tree line, like, oh, well, yeah, tree line is pretty low. Like even when we were in Colorado, we saw places where it stopped. And that's like, a third of the height of this. Okay, so pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 6:51
That tree stopped pretty early. Um, yeah, I wish I would have gotten more information about like vegetation and stuff, like, let's let's up there, but there's not really much. But, um, yeah, and in a lot of the videos I sold to, it's like Sherpas like actually like carrying these people on their back. Like they wrap them up in a sleeping bag and carry them on the back, drag them in areas that they can be dragged. But some places they can't do that, because it will be like we talked about with the helicopter just bringing in the stuff left. I also found a interesting article in from boston.com. I felt like they kind of explained it really well. So I'm just gonna read what they said. So the first step is a field rescue that begins with asserting assets, ascertaining the callers condition, and providing advice regarding how they should either shelter in place or move to a safer location, says, Dan Richard, CEO of global rescue. At that point, we can then deploy air or ground rescues to try to reach them once they have been rescued from the field. We evaluate them medically and get them additional care if necessary. If not, we bring them to a staging location prior to evacuating them from the country. The air is so thin that helicopter struggled to achieve enough lift to safely remover. So to compensate for this, the helicopters have to reduce their weight, meaning taking a few fewer people up there, sometimes only two people per trip. Um, which like you also have to count for like the oxygen like they have to take oxygen for the people that they're bringing, because the people that they're saving already have limited oxygen. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I just thought that was pretty interesting. You know, helicopters can't get to all the places. So the Sherpas have to carry them to like a base camp or somewhere that they can get safely, and then they can take them away. And so crazy. There was a couple of recent stories with people getting saved from Everest
Unknown Speaker 9:05
fail and mad already.
Speaker 3 9:09
And I just grabbed this information from an autopsy video. He's a YouTuber that does some news and stuff. But there was one where a Chinese woman was saved after falling unconscious on the mountain. And she got rescued by a Sherpa and stuff. But she refused to pay the $10,000 rescue fee to the guy that saved we're
Unknown Speaker 9:33
gonna punch a hole in your drywall. Yeah.
Speaker 3 9:37
Do we need to play that PSA again? Hagia Sherpa?
Unknown Speaker 9:41
Yes,
Speaker 3 9:42
yes, this This is dumb bitch, not the Sherpa. Well, I fell back on our dumb bitch because the people aren't saved for the two Sherpas are a fair. We know we don't ask anything of these people. Blah, blah blah. Like the internet should really chill out. On her because we don't do this to be thanked. We just do it to save lives. But it's also kind of like, you know, that's fucked up. You're alive.
Speaker 1 10:13
I mean, she has the money, like,
Unknown Speaker 10:17
she fucking went up. Oh, she went up there,
Speaker 1 10:19
she probably spent, you know, at least $50,000. Like, your life isn't worth, I don't know, things that you have to sign that say that you could end up paying this. I thought that was the thing.
Speaker 3 10:33
Yeah. And so I was kind of confused too. Because whenever I was, whenever I was talking about the insurance I talked about, like, like, evacuation kind of insurance or, you know, saving your ass. And so I was kind of confused on this, because it says he or she refused to pay the $10,000. I don't know if that was like, she went up there without insurance and then was supposed to pay this. And she didn't have insurance. Or if she had insurance, and this was like an additional fee. And she was like, I shouldn't have to pay that because I got it and had insurance, but it's also kind of like, I don't know, just pay him 10,000 bucks for saving your life and move on. I don't I don't know. It's hard for me to. I have feelings about it.
Speaker 1 11:16
I know. It's when I first read that I was like, Yeah, we started listening to some podcasts on our way back from our trip. And then like, two days later, that story came out. I'm like, Oh, that's a pretty weird coincidence. Yeah, like in Mount Everest mode. And then that happened. But I was like,
Speaker 3 11:38
what if I can be but apparently she had at one point, she eventually agreed to pay $4,000. But the dude just like was like, like, it's fine on want your money. You're you have a bad attitude.
Speaker 1 11:53
Yeah. That's pretty cool. Power move. Yeah, no, I'm good. Don't worry about it.
Unknown Speaker 11:58
Yeah, no, thanks. I just say people a mountain.
Speaker 1 12:01
Sorry, for the air reminds me of when I was a waitress. And then like, you know, 20% tip has been the standard for a little while, like, at least 10 years ago since I was a server. And people would like pay me in cash. And I could tell right away like, it wasn't enough for a tip. And I'd be like, Oh, let me get you your change. And the change would have been like, $2. And they're like, No, it's for you. I'm like, I'll be right back with your change. Like, oh, you're fucking
Unknown Speaker 12:34
thanks for the two bucks.
Speaker 1 12:38
Yes, already paying for you to eat here. Because that's kind of how it works. Like with Tip pools and stuff, like, you know, you're having to tip out a percentage of all your shit to like bussers and whoever so like, you don't get a big enough tip. It's like you're paying for somebody to eat their way. Oh, yeah. Percentage out of your stuff. So
Speaker 3 12:59
yeah, tipping is like, oh, no, we need to not just have a system where it's not required.
Speaker 1 13:07
It's almost like we should do it like other places where they just pay like a fair wage. Yeah.
Speaker 3 13:11
And then people do their job. Well, and if they don't, then they get fired. Yeah. That would be cool.
Speaker 1 13:23
Tangent there. No, no, no. But yeah, I'm sure this lifesaving man and I feel the same. I can relate.
Speaker 3 13:35
Well, there is another shirt Sherpa that save someone. This one actually saw like a lot of videos were on tick tock and stuff. So it was like a Sherpa. And he was do with one of his customers or whatever, taking them up. And then they came across a guy that was like shivering and holding on to a rope. Now it says holding on to a rope. I don't know if this meant like, he was like dangling holding on. Or like, it was like a taut line that was kind of a slant. And so he was just kind of like sitting and holding on or I don't I don't I don't know. But um, so yeah, the the Sherpa convinced the customer guy that he was with the that they should stop and like, save the sky because he's gonna die if they don't do anything and no one else is probably going to come. And a lot of rescue teams can't get to where they were at. So they did that. They wrapped him up in a sleeping bag and got him like you backpacked up and this was like, an area where they couldn't really drag them on the ground. So they had to fucking take Yeah, take turns wearing them. And I think it was like, carried him six hours to a base camp. So a helicopter could reach them
Unknown Speaker 14:46
six hours. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 14:48
Yeah. In the Mount Everest conditions where it's hard to breathe
Speaker 1 14:53
probably at least 150 pound person. Yeah.
Speaker 3 14:57
It's already hard enough to get yourself there. down and you're carrying a person. Um, so this person like got saved. They had made some just kind of like broad kind of like thank you stuff on like social media that didn't even like specifically mentioned the person that like carried him or anything like that at all. Um, but most shockingly, he blocked him on Instagram like what? Like the only thing I the only way my brain can like rationalize that is like maybe this guy has some kind of trauma that's linked to the person that saved him because if he like addresses this person, maybe that makes it more real but I don't know it's like yes, I'll put out a big thank you thing that was like thank you to the team you know, the evacuation service team and blah blah blah and it's like fuck I'm blocked that Sherpas Aslam.
Unknown Speaker 16:00
That's a weird story
Speaker 3 16:03
is Yeah, I don't know, maybe more will come out about it. Because I think this was like, super recently heard about. But yeah, I think that this was also a Chinese person. So maybe, because that lady was also from China. So maybe they just need like a little like etiquette book. Before they go or something to like, just say thank you to someone if they carry you six hours down a mountain to save your life. That's it. Thanks.
Speaker 1 16:35
Damn. Yeah. And the thing is like, that dude, that was with the Sherpa, like, on his way up. I mean, that means like, that he had to abandon his son meditate. Yeah, you know, so that was exactly what happened. The whole thing. Like
Speaker 3 16:53
a lot of money gone for like the one thing that you were not there for? Yeah.
Speaker 1 17:00
I'm sure. Sorry. We keep talking. The thing I'm thinking I have to like, depending on how high up they are. I mean, I know, you kind of have to go up and down. But I'm sure if you're like, almost to the top, like, you know, the mountains like 29,000 feet, if you're at like 26,000 like you probably just can't go the next day. Like I'm sure if it was lower down. That would be fine. But like, if you're really high up that could fuck you for the whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 17:32
Yeah, that's that was also kind of a thing that happened in a yeti documentary that I watched, but we'll get to that later. But, but yeah, no, that's, um I don't know. If I was that person. I feel like yes, I would save that person. Because if I got to the top and then on the way down, like, I would never, like, be able to like look at this achievement the same exactly, but it's still kind of like, damaged or sucks. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Um, so you know, some people get saved from outburst, but some people don't. Some people don't and they're still
Speaker 1 18:13
there. I have some information about that. Yeah. So it kind of is with all the ever stuff I feel like it's kind of weird and you see like different numbers and you're like which one is true but there's also like not really a way to you know how
Unknown Speaker 18:31
how many is gonna go up there just to like
Speaker 1 18:35
Yeah, and like how accurate is reporting on stuff like this but I've seen that roughly 300 People have died that we know of, and 200 are still up there. Wow. Holy shit plus or
Speaker 3 18:52
minus that's crazy popsicle people but Oh, but just definitely for sure over half the people that have died there are still there.
Speaker 1 19:01
And the reason being like Jamie was talking about with rescues it's just it's too dangerous depending on where they are. And you know, if you're in a situation where you can only you only have enough energy to carry yourself like you're gonna die if you are so while it's very sad, like it's a survival situation. Yeah. And another thing I was thinking about when you were talking about the rescues like Okay, say that we're down here on Earth, like, like we
Unknown Speaker 19:41
can picture it pretty easily.
Speaker 1 19:44
Yeah, me too, I guess. But like, say that you're running like your body is used to like how it feels on Earth. So like, you could stop running before you like puke or pass out? Yeah, but like up here like You're not, you don't know your body isn't having normal reactions anyway. So donors left and right, your pocket and boners like you can't breathe. So like you don't you can't as easily gauge like, Oh, I'm about to fucking die. Ah,
Unknown Speaker 20:16
that's really scary I
Unknown Speaker 20:17
had, yeah, like, I'm
Speaker 3 20:19
the type of person like, I definitely keep pushing myself like, I'm pushing myself like, when I was doing more parkour, I would be doing it for like four, four hours or four to six people around here like you can take a break and that's true, but hold on. Um, so Are most of these bodies in the like Rainbow Village? Right? No, that's not what it's called.
Speaker 1 20:50
Right? It was like Rainbow City or something. Door city?
Speaker 3 20:55
Door city. Right. Rainbow Valley, Rainbow Village?
Speaker 1 20:59
Yeah, so most of the bodies are in the death zone, which is like 26,000 feet up.
Speaker 3 21:05
That's like close to the summit, right? That's not like the lower base camps and stuff. Yeah, 26,000
Speaker 1 21:09
is like you're kind of in the homestretch because the top is 29. So most of the people are up there. But also you can very easily die just anywhere, as we'll talk about here in a minute. So rewind back to the first episode. Here on Earth. This takes place on earth, by the way, in case anyone was wondering. So on Earth, one of the first people to attempt to climb was a man named George Malloy. He's the one that got lost in 1924. And we're not sure if he actually was the first person to summit because they went missing. Okay. So in 1999, they fucking found him on the mountain. Oh, 75 years later.
Speaker 3 22:04
Oh, where are they? Where did they like, how close to the summit? Did they find them?
Speaker 1 22:08
Um, that part? It doesn't say. I just have that it was a warm spring. So the snow was a little more melted. Yeah. Which is the thing that happens, like depending on the weather fluctuations, some of these bodies kind of come and go because they're hidden or they're
Speaker 3 22:26
not. Wow. Oh, yeah. Did they find any type of like information on him that like indicated if he got to the summit? No,
Speaker 1 22:35
he didn't have anything. It was like his upper body was pretty much like perfectly preserved. And he still had like his really primitive climbing equipment. Oh, but he didn't have like, papers or like, anything. Like
Speaker 3 22:53
you said his top half was well preserved, which just made me think like maybe he didn't want anyone to know he had a boner. Anything but
Speaker 1 23:05
will speak in a boners. I did read something that said that he had a picture of his wife on him, like with his body. And so that's why they think maybe he didn't make it to the top because his plan was supposedly like, leave the picture of her up there. We have no way of knowing so.
Speaker 3 23:26
I bet that he didn't if that was the plan to leave it on there. But I mean, also littering?
Speaker 1 23:33
9024 They didn't know that was a thing they like, yeah, sure you don't poop in the water and then drink the water
Speaker 1 23:49
the next person, her name it was Hannelore schmaltz. She was the first person first German citizen, but also first woman just in general throughout the world to die on the mountain. This was in 1979. She reached her goal of summoning the mountain but she succumbed to exhaustion on the way down. And what happened with her? She had a Sherpa with her and the Sherpa was like, hey, like you can't set up camp here. You're in the death zone. And she was like, I'm good. Oh, my God. Okay, can camps in the death zone? So there was yeah, there was a snow storm. So I guess she kind of realized like, Oh, I'm fucked. So she starts trying to go down to like the next camp too late. Yeah. She died 330 feet away from annex camp. Oh, oh, she was like right in there.
Unknown Speaker 24:56
Damn. Yeah,
Speaker 1 24:59
she was Right. I mean, granted, they probably wouldn't have been able to save her but maybe and she She's another one where like, they don't know exactly where she is now because of the weather. Although for a while she was like in really plain view. And the last picture I saw of her like she, her face was skeletal. But basically, she was like leaned up against her backpack, and she was there for a really long time. And she was a marker that people would see and she was just sitting there like with their eyes open and like her hair blowing in the wind.
Speaker 3 25:48
Oh, the hair blowing ah, That's so creepy. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 25:51
fucking weird. Next person here on earth
Unknown Speaker 26:03
she's nicknamed Sleeping Beauty. Her name is the other girl
Unknown Speaker 26:07
have a nickname? She doesn't.
Speaker 1 26:09
I couldn't find one for her at least sitting silly. Beauty what can I find? Sleeping Beauty Frances. Arson. teve was the first woman from the US that reached the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen, which is
Speaker 3 26:35
fucking insane. That's fucking crazy. Because most
Speaker 1 26:39
people of course use it. Even Sherpas that like are native to this area.
Speaker 3 26:44
Some people die without bringing that shit up there. And that's impressive. Yeah, her.
Speaker 1 26:50
So that was in May of 98. But unfortunately, she died during the descent. She was with her husband, Sergei. And there's different reports. But apparently they split up and we're with two different groups descending. She got really tired, and just couldn't do it. So her group, like used up all the oxygen they had. And I guess they were in a spot where they couldn't carry her. So either they decided or she was just like, you know, go ahead.
Speaker 3 27:25
Ah, so sorry. It just makes my gut feel just like yeah,
Speaker 1 27:31
just knowing like, Okay, this is it. Coming down, guys. Just go. Yeah. Which I mean, that's a selfless thing to do. Because, you know, your team could also die helping you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 27:45
It's just, I don't know, I feel like you just have to put that in your mind before you even like make that trip. Like, okay, am I prepared to make those decisions? And well, I say live with that. But you know, you live and die. You honors Yeah. To die. prepared to die.
Speaker 1 28:07
Bitch. So her husband, Francis's group, like they're coming down her husband, Sergei, they see him going up to try to find her. And they're like, hey, like, we're out of stuff, like we can't help you.
Unknown Speaker 28:24
So he goes up.
Speaker 1 28:27
And then he's never seen again. Until the next year. There was a really experienced guide. It was like kind of in a weird area. What it sounds like is kind of like a cliff that you wouldn't really go to it was kind of off the trail. And they think that he was searching for her and like fell off a cliff.
Speaker 3 28:53
Oh, there's also a shit ton of crevices. There. I didn't I like just found this like before you're coming over, but there's like, I wish I would have got some stories like this. But yeah, there's some like, fucking deepest crevices that people just fall in. And there's one dude that fell in while is the whole team was like sleeping and stuff. And he dislocated his shoulder and he had to like climb out of there, like fucking nights. That's for another time. But yeah, maybe he fell in a crevasse and
Unknown Speaker 29:28
yeah, I didn't realize that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 29:31
The dangers of Everest you Yeah. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 29:36
Yeah. So Francis, for a long time. She was just kind of like a marker. She was just there. She was wrapped in an American flag. And then finally, at some point, a group kind of moved her like closer to that cliff where her husband was so they were like, kind of in the same area. So like
Speaker 3 30:00
Was that just because I wanted them to be together or something or they had just moved the body for? I don't
Speaker 1 30:05
know exactly some of the stuff there's not like a ton of information. Okay. But yeah, they I guess it was probably just because she was like on the path and so they just like scooted her
Unknown Speaker 30:18
get a broom and just get this out the way.
Speaker 1 30:21
Tool Moises are one of the most popular people on the mountain is a man that they refer to as green boots,
Speaker 3 30:39
and good old green green boots.
Speaker 1 30:43
This was in 2014 He died in a blizzard. People aren't 100% sure who he is because I guess multiple people died in this blizzard. But they think it's an Indian climber
Speaker 3 31:00
named Sue Wang. Cal jour.
Speaker 1 31:04
And actually, I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing. He died in 96 was discovered in 2014. And he became a landmark for how close you are to the summit. Okay. Is where he was. It was a place where like 80% of people would stop before they like really started up in the steep stuff. Ah, okay, so he was like, in the entrance of this cave and just sat down and
Speaker 3 31:36
died. Sam? Yeah. So eventually, sorry. Question is, is the cave kind of like still there? Like, is it kind of okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1 31:47
I think it's kind of just like a popular spot that is still used kind of a natural like, off a little bit off the path so you're not like blocking the main
Speaker 3 31:58
okay. It's like a little little cocktail lounge. Little bikinis up there. He's Lubbock he's mascot and
Speaker 1 32:16
so I've seen different things I've seen that his family got him moved. I've also seen that the Chinese government moved him out of plain sight. But basically I think whoever it was just kind of like moved him further into the cave so he wasn't like right here. Oh, okay. So he's still there. He probably will never come down I
Speaker 3 32:38
kind of wish they would have kept him out in plain sight. I just I don't know maybe there's a lot more to it that I'm not thinking of but I just kind of the idea of people lining up there and being markers sounds kind of cool and
Speaker 1 32:53
like kind of sounds like something that like I could see the person liking yeah in tribute
Speaker 3 33:01
part of the like people are gonna like I'm a marker on people's way up and stuff at least for a little bit until you know, snow melts and you roll to a different spot or something but
Speaker 1 33:12
I'm gonna sound like a huge asshole saying this but frankly I don't really care but watching a video this like she was like this really pretty like influencer lady then post like workout videos on her bikini and stuff. Well, I guess she climbed Everest. And she like takes a video of herself crying because she was like, I didn't know there would be a dead body they're doing research about the most famous thing about Everest is that there's dead bodies there. Yeah. I mean, I guess if you're not expecting one at point A, but like, they could be anywhere, literally anywhere. What a dummy. Like they're dying. Frequently, it's not like yeah, there's one from years ago
Speaker 3 34:01
was like going to a hospital and just being like, I didn't know I'd see someone sick here or like, yeah, see a dead person? And like, I don't know, like, it's just it happens. They're like,
Speaker 1 34:11
Yeah, I was watching it. And I was just like, I mean, I hate to be this person. That's like, suck it up
Speaker 1 34:22
I mean, yeah, it's sad, but that's like part of it. Yeah, it was a very extreme situation. Yeah, I felt like
Speaker 3 34:31
that makes me think that some people just really don't understand how extreme it is. Especially with like, how you're talking in the last episode, like the commercialization of it and everything. People are just like, Oh, if I get hurt, I can just take an elevator down or thing it's like no, you get hurt like you're fucked.
Speaker 1 34:47
Yeah, this is where a place where you might have to like, Look, your husband and my eyes and like say goodbye. Yeah, any fucking reason like it could be going perfect. And then there's a blizzard. or there's your ankle. Yes, like fucking anything. Your oxygen tank springs a leak. Yeah, like smoking aisles. There's another man that sat down and died right next to green boots. His name was David Sharpe. What year was that? I don't have the year but I want to say it's early 2000.
Speaker 3 35:26
Okay, like green boots was already there and dead and then he just was like, I'm gonna go chill next to him. Okay. Yeah, that's what it sounds like. Okay. So
Speaker 1 35:37
this guy caused a lot of a lot of controversy within the climbing world. His name was David Sharpe. And he did. I feel like my voice sounds really shaky a promise I'm not about
Unknown Speaker 35:57
sorry, but I didn't know. You were a fucking moron.
Speaker 1 36:12
So there's a guy named David Sharpe. He had tried to climb Everest MultiSample flat
Speaker 3 36:19
to me. Oh, yes. I'm sorry. I just had, I'm sorry. So
Speaker 1 36:28
he was more like a normal person, I think not like an ultra billionaire. Okay, so he had tried to climb Everest a couple times didn't make it for various reasons. Then he made this trip and was like, Okay, this is my last fucking trip. Like, I can't I just can't keep doing it. So he ended up going with like a budget company guide company. And
Speaker 3 36:56
like, that's something you definitely don't want to do something like,
Speaker 1 37:00
yeah. So he went with a budget company. And basically what this company did was they would get you to base camp. And then you're pretty much on your own. So he was like, climbing alone?
Speaker 3 37:15
Ah, what the fuck? Yeah.
Speaker 1 37:19
I mean, you can just go up there by yourself. If you want. You don't have to have a good company.
Speaker 3 37:24
I was kind of wondering that when I was looking at the cost breakdown. Because I was like, I bet a lot of people might cut a corner. Price wise here by they don't need a guide. Oh,
Speaker 1 37:36
yeah, I thought I wrote down the dollar amount. But they found a receipt on him. That was for like roughly $7,500. And that was his receipt. So this was like ultra budget. Like I don't even know how he got this, like,
Unknown Speaker 37:53
Economy class.
Speaker 1 37:56
This was like riding with the luggage. I don't know how he managed down. So he didn't it sounds like Well, yeah, yeah. But this one's really like, is controversial, because some people say that, like 40 people passed him by and didn't do anything to help him. But I don't think that's true. So he like pretty much set down where green boots was, so people are having to pass him to get to the summit. For some reason, people just like to be like, No one helped him like, the whole thing. But there are reports of other people being like, No, I personally stopped to help him. He told me to go on. And at the time, there was a documentary being made, which I forgot to go back and look at the name. But basically, it was about it was an unrelated thing with this guy whose brother had died and they were trying to do a mission to get his body down. Oh, that film crew actually ran into David Sharpe. And yeah, so people offered help. And he was like, now keep going. So they actually have that like recorded to like when they he is on camera, and the footage was given to his family, but not like released. Okay. So I don't know why that became a thing. I saw multiple articles that were like, and no one stopped to help him. But I think he's just kind of like a sensationalized Yeah,
Speaker 3 39:34
yeah. Especially like some of the rescues I've been reading about, like, it sounds like if you're gonna die, people are gonna stop and help you
Unknown Speaker 39:43
know, at least try Yeah, like with him. I saw that people stopped to help him but he was like,
Speaker 1 39:52
kind of already in a state where like, his body was frozen so much that they couldn't manipulate him like they couldn't like So his legs are back or something so he was still alive, but they couldn't do it. Basically it sounds like when you freeze to death like it sucks really bad at the beginning but then you're like warm and you kind of like drift off to sleep so like at the end not
Unknown Speaker 40:19
sad bad in the
Speaker 1 40:20
beginning it's really fucking awful. But then you get like a peaceful time. Yeah, to just Yeah, so that's what happened to him. So he also got just kind of like drug further into that cave. So he's still on the mountain to Okay, so
Unknown Speaker 40:35
him in green boots. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 40:37
they're probably in the cave together.
Unknown Speaker 40:39
Damn. playing poker
Speaker 1 40:44
forever though I just realized maybe they're ghosts wouldn't speak the same language. I don't know if once you become a ghost, you become just universal.
Unknown Speaker 40:54
Yeah, speaking now.
Speaker 1 40:58
Because that's another thing that I didn't really think about because I'm a stupid American. I'm like, Oh, you're like encountering people from literally all over the world. So like most people you encounter like, you can't talk to them. Yeah, yeah. Crazy. Yeah, it's,
Speaker 3 41:12
it's pretty crazy. Like the diversity that's just like up there. But I mean, you know, it is like a people are going to travel from all over us. So it's, it's pretty cool. Yep.
Speaker 1 41:25
I have one more person. Um, this is one that I had mentioned. Last episode. Is a lady named Shreya shock or FEIN. She will ask me. Yeah, it's just so cool. I guess she was a Nepal born woman, but grew up in Canada. And she died in 2012. If you just search like bodies on Everest, her picture pops up a lot because it's just like a body wrapped in a Canadian flag. So that's like a common picture. But she's since been removed from the mountain. She was the one that I talked about that had to be taught how to put on climbing shoes before making her journey. Oh, okay. Okay. So yeah, she was like, very new to the climbing game. And I can't remember if she made it to the top or not. But yeah. Denise? Yeah. Yeah, so pretty crazy. But oh, sorry.
Unknown Speaker 42:28
Were you gonna say oh, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 42:30
Some people do make it to the top. So I have a list of some notable and interesting summits. Yay. Pretty cool. Yeah. 1975 Junko to buy Japanese woman became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. Nice. What year was 1975? Okay. Okay. So 22 years after the First Men. Okay, cool. Cool. In 1978, or there was the first ascent without supplemental oxygen. So it was two men that did that. And then they went on later to do it multiple times slap so yeah, pretty crazy. 1978 the first solo Ascent by Franz up, Berg. Berg.
Speaker 3 43:21
I'm sorry, that makes me mad. Are you doing this by yourself? Ah. Ah, okay. Sorry. Yes. I'm just like, that is insanely dangerous guy.
Speaker 1 43:34
Man. Imagine getting back down to the bottom and you're live and you're like, I'm the coolest motherfucker. On this planet Earth.
Speaker 3 43:41
Yeah, I would just be like, where's my just like, paycheck to just live forever now.
Speaker 1 43:47
Fucking and stay. Wow. And then in 1988, there was the first female ascent without supplemental oxygen. And that was Lydia Brady.
Speaker 3 43:59
I'm sorry. I'm didn't one of the people that died on the way back down. Didn't Weren't they like one of the first woman let the group without oxygen. Just like not counted because she died. Let's or is it a different year? Sorry. I'm just all over the place.
Speaker 1 44:17
No, no, you're right. I did get this all fucked up. Oh, okay. What it was, it was sleeping beauty. Francis, she became the first woman from the United States to do it with. Okay, this was the first woman in general. Ah, okay, so it was first done and 88 and then an American did it in 98. Okay, gotcha. Okay. Yeah, some of these are kind of confusing because it is like that. It's like first person from this country first person ever
Speaker 3 44:45
like and then soon it's going to be like first person from this town of this state. Yeah. And
Unknown Speaker 44:53
now it makes me want to look up if anybody from Austin's done it.
Speaker 3 44:56
Oh, probably I would have to say probably awesome. athletic people here
Speaker 1 45:01
2001 This is one of the most impressive to me. Eric Hawaiian Mayor became the first blind person to reach the summit.
Speaker 3 45:11
Whoa that's incredible. Yeah. Wow. Oh, what do you think he thought of the view sorry God that's gonna be like a really interesting experience though without sight though because like imagine Yeah, I wonder if he's just feeling like how much it changes your body just like even more you know, since it's more in tune with it and stuff. And
Speaker 1 45:39
do you like how many use the sounds to like, dictate your movement? Like, oh, like the snow crunches like this in a safe area and not?
Speaker 3 45:49
And then just not on a crevasse. That's, that's crazy. That's
Speaker 1 45:55
this next one is my favorite one. It's so fucking cool. So in May of 2006, there was an Australian climber named Lincoln Hall already like it. Yeah, so he was climbing the mountain. He got super fucked up. His team couldn't help them. And they were like, well, he just has to die up here. And whoever was like, the main Sherpa in charge was like, Okay, well, he's not gonna make it. So let's cover up his body with rocks to make this little like makeshift grave. Well, they couldn't find any rocks. So they really like bucket or going back down.
Unknown Speaker 46:36
Let's just get other bodies recovering
Speaker 1 46:40
body sandwich. So they told him they called his family and they're like, Hey, he's dead. And the next day, he fucking walked down the mountain and greeted his fellow mountaineers with I imagine you are surprised to see me here. Danny Manning here.
Speaker 3 47:01
I get terrified that he was what just murder me at that point. I felt like I want to just let like walked in and not suddenly thing just kind of like passive aggressive. And then I want to be like, thanks for coming. Thanks for saving me. Yeah. fucking insane. That's not
Speaker 1 47:22
a little documentary on him like years ago. And I remember that. He went on to live for several years after that. And he gave a bunch of like, talks about his near death experience and rescue and all that. And then he died from unrelated medical issues in 2012 at the age of 56. So he lived for six years after that. I wonder die from a pony. Maybe man I wonder how many voters he was poppin like on his deathbed and Brock's that's what was keeping them okay. Biology is really weird. 2010 youngest male to reach the summit. Jordan Romero. 13 year and 10 months.
Speaker 3 48:13
This is H O will say wait, that's how old he is. Yeah. Oh, wow. What the fuck, man and I hate. I mean, I'm happy for him. Like that's an incredible accomplishment especially at that age. But you know, what else do you do after you feel bad about yourself? You know, I'm just like, fuck you. But congratulations to you. Look at me with my crampons.
Unknown Speaker 48:42
Sounds like tampon.
Unknown Speaker 48:45
crampons in your size. I even kissed a girl
Speaker 1 48:55
in 2011 this was like one of the early records for people going up the mountain a lot. Apa Sherpa had a record for 21 times summit the mountain and that was in 2011 2013
Speaker 1 49:18
Sudarshan Gore Tom was a man with no arms and he made it to the
Unknown Speaker 49:24
well you only need your legs get you there
Speaker 3 49:32
that's that's super incredible. And like I guess I'm trying to think to you I mean, I'm sure people will probably assisted him with like eating and stuff. But I know a lot of people that don't have arms utilize their legs. Your feet are covered up. Yeah, you can't really undress. Yeah, much to utilize your years. Think about that, like insanely impressive.
Speaker 1 49:56
2014 a 13 year old girl Melissa Turner she reached the summit becoming the youngest female climber.
Speaker 3 50:04
I want you to marry the other 13 year old that summit of the mountain and have Mountain Baby
Speaker 1 50:11
should give birth of their 2017 Cami Rita Sherpa. A sense 21 or gets to 21 cents. And then by 2023. Kami Rita Sherpa is at 28 cents. So looks like this year they did their 28 trip up,
Speaker 3 50:35
man. How? How do they even afford that? Like, what do they do for money?
Unknown Speaker 50:43
Maybe the only thing I could think is they're going up with other people, because how else?
Speaker 3 50:49
Maybe she's like guide and stuff. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean,
Unknown Speaker 50:53
how else would you? Yeah.
Speaker 3 50:56
I was wondering, I was like that can't I mean, maybe this is like
Speaker 1 50:59
the richest person ever? I don't know. But that's just what I thought. Yeah, she's probably a
Speaker 3 51:03
guide or Blogger or something ever specific.
Speaker 1 51:09
2023. In May, Unger and layman was a couple became the third and fourth Deaf people to summit Mount Everest. And Unger is the first deaf woman ever.
Speaker 3 51:24
Oh, cool to summit Everest for some reason. I was like she was first. Fine. No, this was late. Let me tell you about Helen Keller. But she wasn't born deaf. So, um, but yeah, that's incredible. I feel like I feel like being deaf would definitely add some difficulty to it. But I feel like it wouldn't be as difficult as blind or no arms. Maybe. Maybe I'm just gauging that.
Speaker 1 51:58
And I'm not sure because the thing was being deaf as say there were some emergency like if somebody had to yell like dough. Yeah. And if your hands are occupied, you can't signal to them.
Speaker 3 52:11
So Oh, yeah. You know, I shouldn't be comparing these disabilities anyway. They're all very hard. And they're their own ways. When you're ascending a mountain for sure.
Speaker 1 52:22
It's hard out here on Earth. Oh, I forgot to write down the year. But a teenager with Down syndrome made the trek to base camp. Oh, cool. So another cool one. Yeah, I
Speaker 3 52:35
think if I ever tried to attempt Everest, it would probably just be the first base camp.
Unknown Speaker 52:39
Yeah. And even then,
Speaker 3 52:42
I'll just get halfway up. That's awesome, though. I thought I had saw something about a man going up Everest and high heels. Whenever I looked into it, it like wasn't really the case. And he was like, considering it and planning it, but I guess he didn't actually do it. But yeah.
Unknown Speaker 53:06
I think we should have happened.
Speaker 3 53:08
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, that happened. I can't remember his name, but it absolutely happened. We got green boots. I mean, that red heel. But yeah, that is my interesting summits. Yeah, that may be we'll be the first podcasters up there. Oh, maybe they will be the first podcasters so the first base camp. The first American podcast
Speaker 1 53:35
will be the first American podcasters to make it one quarter of the way to Basecamp.
Speaker 3 53:42
To make it to the bottom of the mountain to be in the parking lot. Yeah, that's my goal.
Speaker 1 53:49
Those were some interesting summits here on Earth. Right, Jamie?
Speaker 3 53:53
Yes, I am submitted out. But I hope you're not someone to doubt listeners because we still have a little bit left to cover in the next episode.
Speaker 1 54:07
To open boners maybe think I lied? I don't know if there wasn't a poop in this episode. I think I said there was gonna be poop and boners Oh, no. Sorry for the lie.
Speaker 3 54:19
It's fine. You Oh, there is enough in the first episode. So if you if you need more of that, go back and listen to the last Mount Everest episode and hope you like this one and hope to see in the next one fat heads. Body fat fat heads,
Speaker 1 54:33
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Unknown Speaker 54:53
sometime this year, next year.
Speaker 1 54:55
Yeah, that's that's what we're trying to do here on Earth. And we appreciate you Joe Joining us on Earth yeah for this journey,
Speaker 3 55:02
and, you know, stay safe. Don't camp in the dust zone, especially if a Sherpa tells you not to. Yes, listen to your gangster ass Sherpa strew
Speaker 1 55:13
keep your bonus tucked in you don't want it to get frostbite yeah off keep
Speaker 3 55:17
attack then, um, and save and keep your butt flap. What was it called? A rainbow zippers rainbow flag personally Yeah. And Happy Pride. I know we didn't really do much price so Happy Friday. Oh,
Speaker 1 55:33
man. That's a good idea for the future. We can do some like cringy corporate pride advertisements.
Speaker 3 55:40
Well, Mount Everest has the Rainbow Valley and the rainbow zipper. True Happy Pride. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 55:47
And I don't know why we're just like I'm gonna kiss you guys on the forehead.
Unknown Speaker 55:57
will remember today