Everest 2024 Coverage: Weekend Update April 7
Welcome to the Everest 2024 Weekend Update. The Everest spring season is on track. Hundreds of people are advancing towards Everest Base Camp on the Nepal side of the Mountain. The Tibet side remains ...
7 Apr 202424min
Everest 2024: Weekend Update April 1: Season Underway, Lost Legends
If it's April, it must be time for Everest. The Icefall Doctors are hard at work. Climbers and trekkers are making their way through the Khumbu or driving from Lhasa. Shepars and base camp crews are b...
31 Mar 202417min
Everest 2024: Interview with Garrett Madison on his "Aconcagua Ambush" and the Upcoming Everest Season
We are getting closer to #Everest2024, and there are some new rules Nepal is proposing. In this interview with Garrett Maddison, founder of Madison Mountaineering, we meet Garrett and how he started h...
19 Feb 202449min
Everest 2024 - Ryan Mitchell on how an 19 yo can afford to climb Everest
How can a 19-year-old can afford to climb Everest? Well, Ryan Mitchell, 19, living in central Massachusetts, explains how in this podcast. Ryan, a Summit Coach client, contacted me about a year ago, w...
9 Des 202352min
Podcast with Adrian Ballinger, Alpenglow: Records, Rescues, Deaths and More
The past few months have been difficult in the mountaineering world. We have seen climbs on many 800ers that turned out tragically: Mohammed Hassan on K2, Anna Gutu, Migmar Sherpa, American Gina Marie...
10 Okt 202351min
Podcast with Jost Kobusch's Winter 2023/24 Everest West Ridge Attempt
I caught up with German Alpinist Jost Kobusch, who now lives in Chamonix, France, to discuss his upcoming 2023/24 winter, no O's, solo attempt of Everest's West Ridge. No climber has reached the summi...
14 Sep 202347min
Interview with Kristin Harila All 8000ers in 3 months and Muhammad Hassan’s Death on K2
Norwegian Kristin Harila, 37, Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa summited all fourteen 8000ers in three months and 1 day (92 days.) The first was Shishapangma on April 26, 2023, and the last K2 on July 27, 2023. In...
7 Sep 20231h 12min
Podcast with climber, author, and journalist Billi Bierling of the Himalayan Database
Climber, author, and journalist Billi Bierling is well-known in the mountaineering world for her work with the Himalayan Database. We get to know Billi in this podcast, discuss the commercialization o...
21 Jun 20231h 16min
