"The Incident at Mera Peak" - Drew Blood's Dark Tales
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Drew Blood's Dark Tales — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast
1h 14m
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8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Freestars on laatua, kestävyyttä, laajaa valikoimaa ja hyvää saatavuutta. Friistaas työvaatteet. Saatavilla
Jälleenmyjiltä auttamaan. Hotel Mats Espoossa on enemmän kuin hotelli. Meillä on kotonasi. Kompaktista studiosta tilavaan huoneistoon, jossa oma keittiö, parve ja jopa sauna. Oli sitten työmatkalla pidemmällä komennuksella tai minilomalla. Meillä viihdut kuin kotona hotelin palveluilla. Hotel Mats Espoon matin kylässä ajattomasti tyyläs. Aina nykyaikainen.
Why did the climbers attempt Mera Peak during the dangerous off-season?
I admit. We were warned about setting off in the off season. The Himalayas are fickle on the best of days. You've got clear skies one moment and a howling blizzard the next. Everyone told us so. Careful planning, especially for the more inexperienced set, was sold to us as a must. Well They were right. The friends and colleagues who sought to dissuade us, the posters on mountaineering forums who advised us to wait just a few more months. They were right. and the three of us wound up rushing headlong into a profoundly dangerous expedition. We were just experienced enough as climbers to consider these warnings, and just young and arrogant enough to shrug em off when the facts didn't suit us. We should have waited.
Honestly, though, if I could go back and do it all over again. I never would have gone. I know David feels the same way. Tom, I imagine, has his share of regrets too. The reason we charged on despite all the advice to the contrary is a silly one in retrospect. You see, it was only during the off season that the three of us could get weeks off of work to take a trip to the Himalayas at all. We had to skimp and save. We had to build up vacation time and then reason with our stiff necked bosses to catch a break. I managed a three week vacation, and the other two guys secured just over two weeks of leave, some of it unpaid. We flew out to Nepal on a shoestring at the first opportunity. But I wish we had never gone.
It isn't just a cold, the weeks of suffering we endured. Sure we had a rough go of it, most of my right pinky fingers still chillin' somewhere on the slopes of Mera Peak, having sloped off after about a frostbite. We took our lumps. But if that had been all, it wouldn't have been so bad. We'd have come home banged up, but with a good story to tell. Ironically, for someone who set off in the hopes of having a good story to share. I don't like talking about the incident at Mirapeak. We were abroad four weeks all told, five actually, if you include the time we spent in the hospital, and I wish I could forget every second. What really makes me wish we hadn't gone, the thing that really keeps me up at night, isn't the pain, the ice, the ice.
The life or death struggle we faced while trying to climb that peak. It's the thing we encountered in the snowstorm. The thing that followed us. In brief, Mara Peak is a great trekking destination. Its highest highs will bring you up more than twenty thousand feet and offer a view of some of the world's largest mountains. You don't need a lot of fancy gear to climb it. Some trekking poles, good boots, and warm clothes will do. Compared to a lot of other more famous and difficult climbing destinations, Merripeak is a walk in the park. If you are reasonably fit and take care to acclimatize, you should have no real problems completing the expedition. Beginners often take between eighteen and twenty four days to do it.
But having years of experience between the three of us, we were determined to do it at the breakneck speed of ten days. We slept off the jet lag in a cheap hotel and hopped on a bus which brought us to the base of the Himalayas. We had packed fairly light, not wishing to be weighed down by unnecessary supplies, but Food and means of water purification had been brought in abundance, but we had trimmed all the fat, leaving behind the ropes and other goodies you can't do without on a more difficult climb. None of us had ever been to the Himalayas before. David, a friend of mine since high school, had been climbing all his life, having grown up in the Pacific Northwest.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:41
2
Why did the climbers attempt Mera Peak during the dangerous off-season?
0:41–10:11
3
How did clear skies turn the Mera Peak trek into a dangerous snowstorm?
10:11–19:15
4
What did Tom see watching him sleep at the mountain camp?
19:15–28:08
5
Why were human bones found in Tom’s backpack?
28:08–34:24
6
Was a mysterious figure following Tom before the avalanche?
34:24–43:08
7
How did the climbers survive the avalanche and reach an emergency shelter?
43:08–53:46
8
What happened to Tom’s body while the climbers were trapped in the shelter?
53:46–1:14:08
Speakers
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