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So true, Sir Edmund Hillary is a true example of giving back. One of the few individuals who could be put on a pedestal and not disappoint.

I appreciate your passion. When I met Sir Edmund Hillary and interviewed him, our discussion centered around giving back and the importance of gratitude. My meetings with and interviews with his son, Peter Hillary, centered around the same.

It is easy to make generalizations. I fully understand that. My experience is that there are far more people climbing Everest that give back and contribute than one might gather from a video by John Oliver. I personally have devoted an inordinate amount of time and resources to support the construction of a hospital in the Solu Khumbu, and hopefully will be traveling there in April 2022 to work on the completion of it before it is officially opened. Previous to my involvement in the organization assisting with the construction of the hospital, my main focus was contributing to schools and educational programs in the Khumbu region. Before that is was to pay for schooling for two individuals (this is going back to 1995).

For more information on the David Sharp story, you might find this podcast episode fascinating, featuring an interview with Jamie McGuinness:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/268133/8627867

Thanks again for your passion to this important topic.

I did speak to Jamie about this....I have an awesome interview with him that will be out SOON, as I just put the teaser out for the podcast, called Because It's There. Here's the teaser: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1770354/8515746

The episode with Jamie is coming out very soon!

The Happiness Quotient podcast includes other topics such as music, however, there are a score of episodes dedicated solely to Everest, the Mystery of Mallory & Irvine, books related to Everest and the like. I'm the producer, writer and host of the podcast and have filmed four documentaries on Everest (2 on the north, 2 on the south)

Episodes includes original interviews with:

Sir Edmund Hillary; NY Times Best Selling author Mark Synnott about his soon-to-be-released book The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession and Death on Mount Everest; Tom Holzel, author of The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine and originator of that very term; Jochen Hemmleb, considered the foremost expert on the Everest mystery; Mike Hamill, 6-time summiter and owner of Climbing The Seven Summits; Steve Oritt and Jim Geiger, producer and protagonist of award winning film Accidental Climber (I filmed the Everest segment in 2014); Conquering Everest with Tourette's with Frank Camponaro; and several more by myself regarding the commercialization of Everest and about my 2016 and 2019 expeditions.

More coming beginning this weekm, including another with Mark Synnott, Jake Norton, Mike Hamill and Jamie McGuiness.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/268133/episodes

Ah, I wish. I went there in 2012 with the hope of climbing the route Hornbein and Unsoeld pioneered in 1963. I was there with good friends Dave Morton, Charley Mace, and Brent Bishop, and the focus was for Dave and I to create a film commemorating the 1963 expedition and especially the vision and perseverance that the West Ridgers embodied. We succeeded on that front, and released in 2013 our film High and Hallowed: Everest 1963, which is now available for those interested on Amazon and Vimeo on Demand.

As for our climb, we opted in '12 to climb without Sherpa or other support above Camp 2, and to take a more direct line to the Ridge than they did in '63. Unfortunately, the conditions on the route were far from optimal, with little winter snow, making the West Ridge Headwall above Camp 2 a sheet of ancient, brittle ice, and subject to near-constant rockfall from parts of the SW Face above. We stuck it out for a while (another team from the North Face bailed fairly early and low on the face), and Dave and I eventually pushed the route nearly to the Ridge, but then had to pull the plug as we knew the conditions would not improve and continuing on was a fool's errand. Nonetheless, we got a good taste of the route, and most importantly to me, were able to create a tribute to Hornbein, Unsoeld, and the 1963 team we could be proud of.