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Everest’s 100-Year Mystery — With Wade Davis and Finbar Anderson
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Jun 7, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
On June 8, 1924, two climbers set off for what they hoped would be the first-ever summit of Mount Everest. As the mist closed in around them high up the mountain, they would never be seen alive again. A century later, the mystery of whether they reached the top continues to inspire fascination and debate, but is perhaps not the most interesting thing about the doomed expedition, anthropologist and former National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis tells New Lines’ Finbar Anderson on this week’s episode.
Released:
Jun 7, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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