What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man
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What experiences do climbers report at the edge of death?
Frank Smythe had to stop. He was 28,000 feet up Everest and fading. He knew if he closed his eyes, he wouldn't open them again. Lots of climbers took their last breath right here. Some were still frozen in the ice. But his partner wasn't worried. They just needed a break and a bit of food. Frank broke a mint cake in half and held a piece out. but nobody was there. But Frank knew he wasn't alone. He experienced something thousands of people in danger experience, an unseen presence, calm and familiar, always there when you're about to die. Scientists call him the third man. They even built a machine that can summon him. But what the machine creates and what survivors describe, they are two very different things.
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But it was nothing more than a barren rock in the middle of nowhere. There was no hope of rescue. Nobody knew where they were. So Shackleton piled into a lifeboat with five men.
Who is the 'third man' and what role does he play in near-death experiences?
They endured hurricane winds, and 20 foot waves for 800 miles but finally they reached south georgia island that was the good news the bad news they landed on the wrong side the whaling station that could save them was on the north coast they were on the south and between them was a mountain range nobody crossed nobody even dared to try But Shackleton was out of options. He picked two men for the final push, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley. They carried 50 feet of rope, a small axe, and three days of food. No tent, no sleeping bags, no good options. If they stay, they die. I saw McGyver get off an island once. All he had was a casso, a dental dam, and an extra rigid churro. A rigid churro. Well, it wouldn't work with a flaccid churro.
Okay. But it's nothing to be ashamed of. It happens to everybody's churro once in a while. For 36 straight hours, they climbed. They navigated by the stars when they were lucky enough to have clear sky. Mostly, they just climbed in the dark. At one point, they got pinned. Going back meant freezing to death. Waiting meant freezing to death. So Shackleton coiled the rope beneath the three men like a sled, closed his eyes, and they pushed off. They slid 2,000 feet, screaming the whole way.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What experiences do climbers report at the edge of death?
0:02–3:10
2
Who is the 'third man' and what role does he play in near-death experiences?
3:10–11:38
3
How did Ernest Shackleton's journey illustrate the phenomenon of the third man?
11:38–22:51
4
What happened during Charles Lindbergh's historic flight across the Atlantic?
22:51–34:47
Speakers
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