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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:00:58. Timecode out: 00:09:13. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Food preparation, eating ambi. Timecode In: 00:09:13. Timecode out: 00:16:08. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:16:12. Timecode out: 00:26:31. Notes: Conversation, Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:28:09. Timecode out: 00:32:22. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 5: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Sherpa, Nepalese songs. Timecode In: 00:32:23. Timecode out: 00:40:56. Subject 6: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Yak bell ambi. Timecode In: 00:41:10. Timecode out: 00:44:44. Subject 7: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Yak bell ambi. Timecode In: 00:44:44. Timecode out: 00:48:37. Subject 8: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Birds ambi. Timecode In: 00:48:37. Timecode out: 00:51:35. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono; Stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Radio Expeditions David Breashears' "Everest Journey" Log of DAT #5 NPR/NGS #5 Engineer: David Breashers Date: April 17, 2001 ng = not good ok= okay g = good vg = very good :49 April 17th. 1:00 It's a blustery cloudy cold morning at around 14,500 feet and I'm little bit past the village of Parache, and I've reached the end of my journey. At least the uphill part of the trip. I was hoping to get up to just below base camp and see the memorials to Rob Hall and Scott Fisher, but this morning I realized that I've seen their final resting places high on the slopes of Mt. Everest and I've made my peace with them. Before I turn back and head down the trail, backto Katmandu, I wanted to share a few more thoughts with you about what this. journey has meant to me. 2:08 As I get ready to leave I realize I haven't found any new answers nor did I really expect to. I still don't know whether to feel sadness for those friends who will never return. PICKUP 2:30 I still don't know whether to fp~l sadness for those friends who will never return or to be uplifted by the many who endure great hardship in the pursuit of an ideal. Leaving here, I realize I didn't find any new answers nor did I really expect to. I don't know whether to feel sadness for those individuals who will never return... 3:10 of Nepal and the Sherpa homeland and the gateway to Everest. And here come more people and I'm just going to give up for right now. It's not sounding very good anyway. Try it tomorrow. 07- &%*$@ late ... 08-3:54 For me, Everest will always be a place of great contrasts, a desolate and unforgiving yet richly rewarding place. A place of unbearable cold and suffocating heat, violent winds and eerie calm and of unspeakable beauty. It's a place of PICKUP 4:20 It's a place of where I have experience chess swelling pride and deep shame. Great joy and profound sorrow. Energizing self confidence, and paralyzing self-doubt. It's a place to witness with brutal clarity the noblest and ugliest aspects of human nature. It's a place where I've had to confront time and again, my own strengths and weaknesses, my mortality and my humanity. 5:09 For me, Everest will always be a place of great contrasts, a desolate and unforgiving yet richly rewarding place. A place of unbearable cold and suffocating heat, violent winds and eerie calm and unspeakable beauty. It's a place of where I have experience chess swelling pride and deep shame, great joy and profound sorrow, energizing self confidence, and paralyzing self-doubt. It's a place where I have witnessed with brutal clarity the noblest and ugliest aspects of human nature. 6:00 PICKUP It's a place where I've had to confront time and again, my str... (Notes truncated)
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- 4 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
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- 4 Nov 2009 - David McCartt