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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah it's John.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, it's Johniana Man Yeah yeah yeah on the

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Speaker 3: cutting room floor. Have you ever wanted to scale Mount Everest?

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Speaker 1: No, I've done a story for beyond two thousand, a

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Speaker 1: series of stories in the Himalias, I like to say,

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Speaker 1: in the Himalayas. But I flew in via helicopter. I

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Speaker 1: didn't do any trekking. Even walking up to my room

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Speaker 1: at the end of the evening, helicopter was out of breath.

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Speaker 1: I have no interest. So in climbing Everest.

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Speaker 2: With the helicopters, where did you go? You didn't go

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Speaker 2: to the top of Mount Everest?

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Speaker 1: No, no, No, we didn't go to that. No, I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: We flew into the Himalayas and we did some stories

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Speaker 1: with some people and some echo stuff we were doing there.

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Speaker 1: But no, I didn't go to the top of Everest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's a story that's come out right now people, and

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Speaker 3: it's sort of eco tourism, people climbing Mount Everest, and

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five has been the biggest ever year for

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Speaker 3: people scaling Mount Everest.

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Speaker 2: And the big thing is the Nepalese. They make a

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Speaker 2: lot of money out of this. But other people are

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Speaker 2: saying it's time to respect the mountain.

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Speaker 3: And when you look at those pictures of queues of

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Speaker 3: three hundred people waiting to summit, but I kind of

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Speaker 3: have empathy for those people, whoever they might be.

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Speaker 2: They've all tried to get up there.

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Speaker 3: And you'll like imagine two hundred ninety eight in the

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Speaker 3: queue of three hundred and all of a sudden the

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Speaker 3: weather closes came so close to getting to Everest.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a shirpa who has posted these pictures saying,

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Speaker 1: come on, this only serves short term pride. You're putting

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Speaker 1: immense pressure on our sacred mountain. This is a shirpa

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Speaker 1: saying it's time to reflect. We must pause and reconsider

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Speaker 1: how we approach Everest, not just for ourselves, but for

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Speaker 1: the mountain's future. But you're right when you look at

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Speaker 1: that when someone has a photo taken at the top

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Speaker 1: of the mountain, it's them and those incredible mountain peaks

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Speaker 1: behind them. It looks like you're the only person in

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Speaker 1: the world. But from this angle, you see two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty people snaking up that mountain in the freezing cold,

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Speaker 1: waiting their turn. And as you say, they're all looking

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Speaker 1: at the weather closing in, or looking at the day

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Speaker 1: closing in, the darkness coming.

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Speaker 2: They're thinking, my.

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Speaker 1: God, I've come all this way and I may not

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Speaker 1: get my photo, I.

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Speaker 2: May not get my phote out. But what do people

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Speaker 2: expect a gift shop up the top there.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit like a rite of passage. And

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Speaker 1: I think I'm right in saying that more men do

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Speaker 1: this than women. It's like Kakoda, this is the midlife

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Speaker 1: test yourself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, what about that guy that his wife wanted

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Speaker 3: to do it? They both went up there, they got

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Speaker 3: to near the summit, she died and he had to.

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Speaker 2: Leave her up there. Cripes. He didn't even want to

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Speaker 2: go on this thing.

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Speaker 3: What about Meg in the prod pod that's the producer's pod, Meg,

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Speaker 3: who had no interest in scaling Everest and her dad

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Speaker 3: wanted to go to base camp as a bit of

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Speaker 3: a bucket list thing.

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Speaker 2: So he's the one that's doing all the training.

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Speaker 1: Get trained with him.

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Speaker 3: Meg vapes on the quarter hour. Yeah, and as it

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Speaker 3: turns out, Dad ends up getting altitude sickness has to

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Speaker 3: go to a police hospital. Meg ends up at base

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Speaker 3: camp by yourself doing selfie fingers.

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Speaker 2: That's a cruel mystery.

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Speaker 1: You have a feeling that you need to test yourself.

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Speaker 3: No, now, I test myself every day by riding a

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Speaker 3: motorcycle into work. That's the length of testing that I need.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not a fan of the Third World. To

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Speaker 3: be frank, I don't need to travel to the Third World.

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Speaker 3: I can see pictures of it. You want to get

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Speaker 3: enlightened with a beer, yeah, I want to go to

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Speaker 3: places like Greece is as about Third World as I

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Speaker 3: will go.

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Speaker 1: You want a flushing toilet, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well Greece.

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Speaker 3: In Greece, if you don't know this, when you do

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Speaker 3: a pooh, you've got to put your toilet paper in

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Speaker 3: a bin next to the toilet because they're plumbing system.

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Speaker 3: They didn't you know, they might have come up with philosophy,

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Speaker 3: but they didn't come up with plumbing like the Romans did.

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Speaker 3: Don't point that out to them. They get a bit

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Speaker 3: upset about it.

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Speaker 2: But nonetheless, philosophy or do you want plumbing? I have both.

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Speaker 2: I want to flush my toilet paper, I want.

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Speaker 1: To rip out the works of Plato and flush them

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Speaker 1: down the toilet.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's the extent of my travels.

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Speaker 3: I know that you want to go and eat some

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Speaker 3: seeds sitting cross legged by some Buddhist talks to you.

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Speaker 2: I'm not interested.

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Speaker 1: I'm not interested in that. You know, my fantasy is

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Speaker 1: about living in a Tuscan, in a Tuscan village and

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Speaker 1: taking cooking classes and slicing tomatoes and serving food on

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Speaker 1: enormous platters. That's what I'd like.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you say you've sliced.

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Speaker 1: Italians, I said that to shock here what you did.

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Speaker 2: I was shocked. I'm not wearing the dormy a grin anymore. Okay, kids,

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Speaker 2: that's it for today.

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Speaker 1: Come back tomorrow for more.

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