Everest Week: It's a big mountain

Everest Week: It's a big mountain

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, day day, day, day. Do do
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
It's Mount Everest week here at fact of the day.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
I'm going to finish off the day with a little
bit of a scattershot of a few quick facts. I
like when you do this on a Friday. I've got
sent some and I found some and was pretty great.
I asked a question that I didn't know. If you've answered,
how long does it take?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Good question?

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
How long does it climb to world? Start right here?
How long is it climbs down? Bah clear?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Sixty six days in your schedule if you want to
climb out Everes, if you want to climb out every
sixty six days, now, that's include day one.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I was just like gonna have an eye like.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
You don't punk at the bottom of the mountain, up
and down.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Day one, arrive in Kathman.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Do get the Great Witch run because the store you've
got like the sixty stores.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
For the place and the geographical not the shore Street
Rickoon or.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Days two and three. You're both think silly and I've
got a lot to get through. Please you both think
silly and well, I don't know where to park.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Do no good?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
He did it the sexy way by the way way.
Who's getting it first? No one, No one, carry on
for that's your final warning to whack the table.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
I think Hayley's old enough that this has a different
meaning now maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Sorry, what are you gonna do? Oh my god, I'm
in trouble, daddy, What am I gonna do? Punishment Days
two and three hold the bolt up at me. Shopping
and trip preparation.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Day four, go to the Ministry of Tourism and get
your official briefing at the Ministry of Tourism. Number Day five,
Fly from Catman.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Do what happened to three and four? No, that was
prepping and shopping and like getting getting on for supplies.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Local supplies is if we go to Catman, do outlet
the other outlet stores nearby?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Sorry, one more and you're getting it right across the hours.
Oh no, flying from Campman, do no jokes to uh
luke here and trick to are crazy airport they always
show videos of and they run like a banana. Oh
they land in Coole, didn't sir read how build that's

(02:27):
Red played a major partner in that trick. From treck
for six hours. Say okay, so the first trick you
get to two thousand, six hundred and forty meters. The
second trick on the next day for six hours will
take you to three thousand, four hundred and forty six meters.
There is an acclimatization day and arrest day which you
will need.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
You then trek to.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Three thousand, eight hundred meters on day eight, Day nine,
trick to four thousand to There's a lot of trekking.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Each day you go further and further, not climbing yet. No.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
On eleven you finally reach Everespace camp at five thousand,
three hundred and sixty meters and there is accommodation then
clear day twelve through day sixty for the climbing period
because you've got to wait for the right weather. You've
also got camp after base camp, you've got Camp one, two, three,
and four to go back down through to go up

(03:15):
to up to yeah, and then obviously that whole time
then you've got to go back down to Everest base camp.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
And then pretty much reverse trick the whole thing that
you did.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
And once you get to base camp, being like I
just want to get home now, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (03:30):
The treck like you said yesterday, paying anywhere from one
hundred to three hundred thousand dollars, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Which seemed outrageous, but now you think it's two months
of intense Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
What are these people doing for a living though? Like
you're taking time off work?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, I think if you've got that, yeah, all right,
so that was one of how long it takes. Another
fact today is that more people have died climbing Tabletop
Mountain and get downstairs there forcal than have died climbing Everest.
Really because much like our mountains, like there was that
guy risking off. I'll just go up and give it
a blast.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
It is not that high or hard. There's no hardly
any snow on it.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
And then the sun disappears and that soft snowed spring
snows turns to ice in you. Yeah, so it is
poor planting, dehydration, exposure, and losing concentration while taking SELFI
is are the main.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh, for gods, tabletop Mountain. I mean you're getting a
couple itself, isn't you.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Another fact about Everest is the oxygen level at the
top of Everest is the same as in utero.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's so in utero, the oxygen level you get as
a baby is.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Designed to keep you asleep when you're become conscious in
the worm. So that's why when you're in Everest, it's
basically not enough oxygen to be physically active in let
alone maintain consciousness for an extreme period of time. And finally,
I want to tell you two men are the only
known men who have paraglided off the top of Mount Everest.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh wow, nearly clouds, so apparently like a one in
a million chants that the weather is going to be.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
The right sort of weather and it's not just going
to suck you out and just blow you straight back
into the mountain, brought the paraglade, climbed up worth it.
They both went in the same paraglide. It was a dandem,
so it sheared carrying stuff up. So they are both locals,
and they're the only people ever to have officially because

(05:21):
they documented the whole thing. Yeah it was it a
nobill cent all over it. But then they're worried about
getting in trouble, so they paraglide off the top of
Mount Everest. They land immediately jump in a kayak and
kayak five hundred miles down the Ganges River to the
Indian Ocean.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Okay, yeah, I mean you don't deserve to face any
kind of repercussions for that kind of adventure.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Not if your idea of a swift escape is a
five hundred miles kayak adventure amazing down what I'm imagining
is a fairly full on river. So today's facts have
just been Everest. It's been a fun week and it's
a big old mountain.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
The day day day day. Yeah, doally do really do
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