MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
You Can't Cross That Line (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Tue, 08 Apr 2025
This is a special bonus episode of "You Can't"I’m going to tell two stories that prove that no matter what we think science can tell us about the natural world, the wilderness still holds secrets we cannot understand.For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What is the main theme of this special episode?
Hey Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Today, I'm going to tell two stories that prove no matter what we think science can tell us about the natural world, the wilderness still holds secrets we cannot understand. Today's episode is a very special extra episode.
It's part of a new series I'm calling You Can't. If you're a fan of my YouTube channel, you know that I tell stories about places you can't go and people who went anyways. People have really enjoyed those stories and so we decided to tell some more of them here on the podcast under the title You Can't.
But before we get into those stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. And then also, whenever we have a You Can't episode, we release those as they come up.
So if that's of interest to you, please offer to make the follow button a delicious tuna fish sandwich, but then use a can of cat food instead. Okay, let's get into today's stories.
Chapter 2: What are the stories shared in the episode?
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On the evening of January 3rd, 1991, a 40-year-old mountain climber named Jueryi Song felt the wind and snow whipping against his face as he stared up at a mountain peak jutting through the clouds high above him. Jueryi was standing more than two-thirds of the way up a mountain called Kawagabawa, which is the highest mountain in the Meilin Snow Mountain Range in southwest China.
Kawagaboa stands at an elevation of about 22,000 feet, which is more than four miles, and nobody in recorded history had ever reached its peak. In fact, the Tibetan villagers who lived at the base of this mountain believed that nobody ever would, and some of those villagers regularly tried to prevent would-be climbers from even trying.
But Juryi and the 17-member team of climbers he was helping to lead were determined to prove the villagers wrong and to make history. They had started climbing this mountain a month earlier, and they were now closer to the peak of Kawagabwa than anyone had ever gotten.
Jury turned his gaze away from the peak and looked around the temporary camp where he and his team were planning to spend the night. He could see several climbers struggling to reinforce their tents against the snow and the wind. He and his team had chosen to climb it this time of year because it was known as the dry season, when major storms were actually rare.
So Jury couldn't understand why the snow just kept coming down. He grabbed his radio off his belt and called down to base camp, which was a camp at the foot of the mountain where other members of the team provided weather information and support to the climbers. Jury told a base camp team member that the snow was still unbelievably falling hard up here.
That team member reminded him that the climbers should clear snow away from their tents at least every two hours. Jury was about to respond, but just then his radio cut out and he heard this loud buzzing sound coming from it. He stared down at his radio, confused. This was the sound it made when it needed a new battery, but he had just put a new battery in.
Jur-Yi fumbled with the radio, trying to fix it, but all he could hear was this buzzing sound, and then also, periodically, he'd hear the voice of the Base Camp team member cutting in and out. Jur-Yi communicated over the radio and wasn't sure if anyone heard it, but he said he was losing communication and he would try to contact them again later.
Then Juryi turned off his radio, clipped it to his belt, and the buzzing stopped. As the sun finished setting, the wind picked up even more. Juryi craned his neck upwards again, and he saw that the peak of Kawagabawa had now disappeared in the snow and the darkness.
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