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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:02:04. Timecode out: 00:18:25. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Monk ceremony ambi. Timecode In: 00:18:26. Timecode out: 00:38:35. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:38:47. Timecode out: 00:47:43. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 4: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Yak butter tea preparation ambi. Timecode In: 00:47:46. Timecode out: 00:50:37. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:50:38. Timecode out: 00:58:17. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono; Stereo. NPRINGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Breashears -- Everest Log of DAT #: 4A Engineer: Breashears Date: April 14th ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good April 14th 2:05 It's a little bit unfamiliar with all this snow on the ground, but, oh there it is I see it back in this cluster of rhododendron bushes. Get through here. It's a beautiful place for these memorials. You can find it because there are dozens of prayer flags over the site, gently swaying in the wind, some are still v brightly colored.. .(names colors). . .2:55 the largest memorial and the one that's been here the longest and the one that used to stand alone. I'm in front of it now. Says Johnny Breitenbach, 1935-1963, long live the Crow, American Mt. Everest expedition. John, or Jake as they called him was climbing in the ice fall in only 35 foot wall of ice collapsed without warning crushing him to death instantly. They never found his body, well they never did that year.. . . . .remains placed in this stone structure - 4x4~4. Over here to the right are two more of Breitenbach 's companions... photographer of the National Geographic Society he died a few years ago Next to Barry's memorial is one quite similar in size and shape 3x3x3 carved stone plaque. Lute Jerstad. Reached the summit with Barry. get through here. It's a beautiful place for these memorials you can find it because there are dozens BEST ONE (recounts Barry and Lute spending night in open air) 10:30 I find it especially poignant to be standing here in front of the memorial of Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad. Their monuments abut one another and it reminds me of them sitting shoulder to shoulder huddled against the cold on the night they survived the world's highest bivouac at 28,000 feet, high on the SE ridge of Everest. They'd reached the summit in the late afternoon and had failed to reach their high camp before being overtaken by darkness and fatigue. So they sat down to spend a night in the open without sleeping bag or tent. They survived that night for only one reason, Everest was kind to them, there was no wind. 11:42 13:04 Finished. 13:17 Somehow standing here I feel a kinship with these three men maybe because they're Americans, maybe because we have that shared exp. of feeling drawn to Everest. But I've never been able to walk past this monastery without wandering out this ridge and spending a few minutes here showing respect and in a way -- feeling very close to three men I didn't even really know them. The only thing we really have in common is that mountain and maybe all mountains. But that Mt 11 miles over my shoulder, I wouldn't really mind ending up here myself. I don't think I belong in the company of these three maybe further down the ridge, maybe in a different spot but most certainly with a view of Everest and of Om____ , my first mountain in the Himalayas. 14:57 (goes on talking about how well maintained the memorial is.) Explains that his idea for this visit to the memorial is that for Barry and Lute the night they spent outside their high camp and in the freezing weather contrast... (Notes truncated)
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- 3 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
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- 3 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
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- 3 Nov 2009 - David McCartt