Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the 2006 climbing season on Mount Everest where 10 people would die. I focus in on the case of David Sharp, who many think could have been saved if he had been helped earlier. I then cover the rescue of Lincoln Hall who survived a night ... Show More
Jun 16
1967 Denali - Mount Mckinley Mountaineering Disaster - Part 2
Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the 1967 mountaineering disaster on Denali - at the time called Mount Mckinley - where 7 climbers perished on the top slopes due to one of the ... Show More
49m 48s
Jun 10
1967 Denali - Mount Mckinley Mountaineering Disaster
Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the 1967 mountaineering disaster on Denali - at the time called Mount Mckinley - where 7 climbers perished on the top slopes due to one of the ... Show More
52m 38s
Apr 30
Angel Of Death - Harold Shipman
Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we will be discussing the crimes of Harold Shipman, a Hyde GP who over 30 years killed around 250 victims, mostly elderly women, by injecting them with diamorphine. ... Show More
1h 4m
Apr 2022
The Death Zone of Mount Everest
Send a textWe have gone in caves, we have dived under the water, now let's climb a mountain, specifically Mount Everest. Making it to the summit of Mount Everest is a legendary feat, so we can only assume the deaths trying to accomplish this accolade are also unlike any other. Th ... Show More
29 m
Oct 2025
Inside the Death Zone: The Science, Survival, and Latest Everest News
In this episode of The All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall takes listeners deep into the Death Zone — the deadly region above 8,000 meters where oxygen levels plummet and every breath is a fight for survival. Discover what really happens to the human body at ... Show More
15m 6s
Sep 2019
Mount Everest Pt. 1: The Blizzard of 1996
In 1996, two climbing groups set out to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the highest point on planet Earth. A sudden, unexpected blizzard would leave them stranded on the mountain's summit, where the freezing cold and lack of oxygen slowly killed them off, one by one. Learn more ... Show More
52m 8s
Nov 2025
151. Mount Everest Horror: The Lost Climbers of the Death Zone
Last year, a group of adventurers with National Geographic were hiking Mount Everest when they saw a human foot sticking out of the ice. Now, it is not rare to see dead bodies on the mountain, there are at least 200 of them scattered around Everest, and many of them act as marker ... Show More
34m 55s