Corpses on Everest, Everest Day, Beck Weathers’ survival story, plus pop culture. Part two of two.
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Just saw this today! http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/07/22/meru_sundance_winning_climbing_documentary_looks_both_nightmarish_and_inspirational.html
I was wondering if you were going to mention Aron Ralston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston), the guy who went canyoneering in Utah, got his arm pinned under a boulder, was stuck for 4 days, and then cut his own arm off to free himself. It was the basis for the Danny Boyle film 127 Hours. I haven’t watched it, but it sounds like a pretty gnarly story. Kinda counts as mountaineering.
Great, gruesome stuff guys. Amazing stories.
You mentioned Ranulph Fiennes in this episode (I can’t remember whether it was pt 1 or 2). You could do a whole episode on just that guy, with so many disgusting and disturbing facts that you probably wouldn’t be able to fit them all in. It would probably fit somewhere in between “Mad men in history” and “Evil men in history”.