Hinge Points in History, with Robert Mills
There have been moments in history where a single determined person, natural event, or battle changed the entire course of history, forcing destiny down one path instead of another, forever changing what occurred afterward. This podcast explores fascinating examples of these history shaping phenomena.
Robert Mills is an avid mountain climber, world adventurer, writer, and amateur historian. After building the largest secondary market partnership securities platform, Robert led the Mills Law Firm, his nationwide consumer class action law firm, in initiating cases that, with the assistance of other firms, recovered billions of dollars for defrauded American consumers.
Mr. Mills was an Angel Flight pilot for over 20 years, donating the costs and time to personally fly indigent patients from remote locations in the West to metropolitan medical centers for treatment. Since his retirement from law, Robert has served on the management boards of two non-profits, San Francisco City Guides, where he leads three history tours of San Francisco, and the California Solar Rights Alliance, where he serves as treasurer and lobbies in Sacramento for green solar energy legislation.
Since his childhood, Robert has loved climbing mountains all over the world. He has summited 56 of the 57 Ultra Prominent Peaks (the “biggest” mountains, whose summits are over 5,000 feet above their base) in the Continental United States. Robert has written guest essays, including one for the San Francisco Chronicle, and has published articles and done podcasts on a number of topics, mostly related to history and mountains. Robert and his wife, Miriam, have traveled widely throughout the world, including Robert piloting them all over Alaska and to almost every nation in South America.
Together with their two dogs, Robert and Miriam live in “grandparent heaven” near their two new grandsons, “Pax” and “Robby K”, in San Rafael, California.