20 min listen
The 2nd Greatest Show on Earth
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Mount Washington is famously home of "The World's Worst Weather", but it also hosts a huge amount of tourist infrastructure. Senior producer Taylor Quimby brings us this tale of how the mountain was conquered, and how that process became the template for mountain tourism nation-wide.
Released:
Dec 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Young Man of the Mountain: Tyler Armstrong is 12 years old. He likes to play laser tag. He’s learning to play guitar. And this spring he’s heading to China, where he will attempt to summit the world’s highest mountain. In this episode, an ethical debate: how young is too young to climb Everest? by Outside/In