The Happiness Quotient

Nothing says life on the road and all that comes along with than the life of a touring musician. It’s not Leer jets and posh hotels, sold out auditoriums. The music you hear pouring out of small bars and music houses, cafes come from people like you and me, passionate, driven, inspired…..they drive 8 hours from gig to gig, sleep in modest hotels - or behind the bar after it closes. They set up their own kits and amplifiers, collect their hard-earned cash after the gigs, get up the next morning and do it all over again.

Here's a bonafide troubadour. Seth Walker, touring since the mid 90’s. Seth is an American blues, guitarist singer songwriter….author, poet, painter…..has followed the song of his soul. He wrote his own book during covid called YOUR VAN IS ON FIRE...poetry, art, anecdotes from life - he grew up on a commune - and on the road, like playing with Alain Toussaint, Willie Nelson...he’s chased the vibe his whole life, lived in New Orleans, Austin, Nashville...he wanted to eat, sleep, drink and breathe every single note he could possibly hear until it flowed through him, like osmosis.

You know that kind of musician when you hear one.

I caught up with Seth from his hotel room in Chicago*. By now he’s probably half way to Minnesota where his next gig is.

Seth is more than the sum of his parts. His music is soulful, bright…., sometimes dense, ’’that’s his word...like his song Inside, written during a trip to Cuba right after Fidel Castro died.

*EPISODE originally released Oct. 29, 2021 ©ThomPollard

All music used with permission of Seth Walker.

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Alone on Everest*. No Oxygen. No Support. No Limits....IN WINTER!

Jost Kobusch is redefining the boundaries of human endurance. In the dead of winter, with temperatures plunging to -40°F and winds howling through Everest’s infamous West Ridge, he set out on a nearly impossible mission: to climb Everest solo, without supplemental oxygen, on one of the most dangerous routes in history.

Doubted by the world’s top climbers—some giving him just a 0.1% chance of success—Jost pushed higher than any solo winter climber before him, reaching 7,537 meters (24,727 feet). In this exclusive interview, he reveals the mental and physical battle of facing Everest alone, his obsession with testing his limits, and what it truly takes to survive where few dare to go.

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Love. Adventure. Tragedy. Some couples chase dreams together, but for these three, their love stories ended high in the mountains—where eternity and ice became their final resting place.

In this special video, we explore three heartbreaking mountaineering love stories:

💔 Francys & Sergei Arsentiev (Everest) – She became known as Sleeping Beauty after being left behind near the summit. He gave everything to save her.
💔 Liliane & Maurice Barrard (K2) – She was the second woman in history to summit K2, but just minutes later, their fate was sealed.
💔 Hilaree Nelson & Jim Morrison (Manaslu) – A love story of adventure, daring, and heartbreaking loss.

🌨️ What drives people to risk it all for love and adventure? What happens when the mountain takes them forever?

🔔 Subscribe for more deep-dive stories into the mysteries and tragedies of high-altitude mountaineering. Let me know in the comments: Which of these stories affected you the most?

📢 Join the Everest Mystery community: [Your Patreon/Discord/Membership links]

#EverestMystery #Mountaineering #TrueLove  #ClimbingLegends  #Everest #K2 #Manaslu

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The cost of climbing Everest just went up—A LOT! But, at what cost? Nepal has raised permit fees to $15,000 per climber, yet none of that money is going toward improving Sherpa safety. In this video, we expose how Everest has become a business where money talks, and ethics disappear.

Featuring an exclusive interview with Angela Benevides of ExplorersWeb, we uncover the heartbreaking story of Nawang Sherpa, who had no prior Everest experience but was assigned to assist a climber attempting a no-oxygen summit bid. When things went wrong, Nawang refused to leave his client’s side. Both men perished.

No safety reforms. No accountability. Just another tragedy buried under Everest’s growing commercialization. So we ask—what's a life worth?

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For 100 years the fate of Sandy Irvine has been shrouded in speculation and mystery, even mis-direction. Now, new evidence is emerging that could re-write what we thought we knew.

In this episode, we’ll update you on the groundbreaking DNA testing currently underway, share what we know about the discovery of Sandy Irvine's boot in October of this year, explore what might come next. We’ll also hear from Everest historian Tom Holzel, and Mark Synnott and Jamie McGuinness.

Here is the video version of this episode:
https://youtu.be/gxhDXeqZMRE

RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE:

Sandy Irvine & the Camera Were Discovered? Mark Synnott's Revealing Intel 
https://youtu.be/glMT08zmAP0

Why We Can't Find Sandy Irvine's Body on Everest - w/Jamie McGuinness
https://youtu.be/SDbRRU1YMLw

Family of Everest Victim Sandy Irvine STUNNED by Discovery of His Remains with Julie Summers
https://youtu.be/NR8NG0ei9SA

China's SECRET: The Camera & Irvine's Body Were FOUND on Everest
https://youtu.be/qv_sKAEeQyA

Robert Edwards - blog on recent Irvine boot discovery location on the central Rongbuk Glacier
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25228588-mallory-irvine-everest-irvine-the-oxygen-bottle-and-the-central-mora?fbclid=IwY2xjawHRX4lleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXUzEbxTDtz7EAKp5I8A5GUBJFK-q3-75QQTFd_MCd6T2Jq_NeNodA1tLA_aem_PIF3DfabNkKsqyuPUkOqvQ

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Well, we packed too lightly for such a chilly hike. But, we nabbed a 4000-footer before high-tailing back to the warmth of a smaller peak that offered us a sunny vantage point. Today, the topic of Metta, or Lovingkindness.

Come along on our lovely hike in the White Mountains.

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Just imagine the surprise and shock you would get if when your telephone rings one morning and it's a call from Kathmandu, Nepal and on the end is a world famous mountaineer, that his team has found the partial remains of your long lost great uncle, who disappeared 100 years ago. That happened to today's guest, Julie Summers, the great niece of Sandy Irvine, who disappeared alongside his climbing partner George Mallory on June 8, 1924 endeavoring to become the first to stand on top of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest.

I interviewed Julie from her home in Oxford, England.She shares her shock at receiving the call and discusses all things about the Mystery of Mallory and Irvine and what might have happened on that fateful day in June of 1924.

The interview with Julie has been edited for brevity. The full interview with Julie can be heard on The Happiness Quotient podcast at this link:

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Resources for a deep dive:

Sandy Irvine & the Camera Were Discovered? Mark Synnott's Revealing Intel 
https://youtu.be/glMT08zmAP0

Why We Can't Find Sandy Irvine's Body on Everest - w/Jamie McGuinness
https://youtu.be/SDbRRU1YMLw

Julie Summers, great niece of Sandy Irvine, is a broadcaster, history and is the author of 14 books, including Fearless On Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine. Here is her website and book information:
https://www.juliesummers.co.uk

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BREAKING NEWS: SOME OF THE REMAINS OF legendary mountaineer Sandy Irvine have been discovered on the Rongbuk Glacier of Mount Everest in Tibet by a National Geographic team that had been endeavoring to do a ski descent of the Hornbein Couloir.

World's foremost authority on all things Mystery of Mallory and Irvine Jochen Hemmleb is interviewed here only hours after he learned of the momentous discovery.

Here is the interview with Jamie McGuinness mentioned in the interview, Sandy Irvine's Body Is Gone: https://youtu.be/SDbRRU1YMLw

Jochen Hemmleb's website: https://jochenhemmleb.com/web

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Mount Everest—legendary, dangerous, and shrouded in myths. But how much of what you've heard is actually true? Are climbers really lining up like rush hour traffic at 29,000 feet? Is the mountain littered with bodies and trash? Let's peel back the layers of Everest’s most shocking myths and separating fact from fiction. 

You’re NOT going to want to miss the last one because it’s a doozie!

Videos referenced in this video:

Ryan Mitchell: https://youtu.be/w1mJsdeE81Q

Green Boots: https://youtu.be/T_LHay8ZuoA

David Sharp: https://youtu.be/qGKDFjXLAf4

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Under the glow of séance candles a psychic medium sits trancelike at a table, in front of her is a blank notebook. She begins to write the words of a spirit claiming to be George Mallory  - the mountaineer who disappeared with his partner Sandy Irvine high upon the north face of Everest only months previously:

“I am Mallory” the words appear from her pen “I can remember still the struggle for breath….and the awful cold.”

Today we’re going to explore something truly otherworldly, the automatic writings of Geraldine Cummins, one of the great spiritual mediums of her time….who between November 1924 and January of 1925 wrote numerous scripts based on visits by George Mallory.

When you hear the episode you'll become a believer!

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