Because It's There

The true definition of 'adventure' is an endeavor you embark upon when you don't know the outcome. In the spirit of long lost Everest pioneer George Mallory, who was told that no human being could ever climb Mount Everest, we tip our caps here to the people who dare go where few others dare. 

Mallory was once asked "Why climb Everest?". He is famously credited to have answered "Because it's there." We all have an Everest: whether on land, sea, air, space or, quite simply, the mind, in this podcast we say 'go find it'.

In BECAUSE IT’S THERE we’ll be meeting with some of the world’s most intrepid explorers, and adventurers, scientists, biologists, oceanographers, like Don Walsh, who in 1960 co-piloted the bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, -35,994 feet below the sea. We’ll share a rare interview with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to ever set foot upon the summit of Everest. We’ll also meet modern day explorers, like climber/filmmaker/social media influencer Renan Ozturk, Lhakpa Sherpa, the most successful female Everest climber of all time, who has climbed Mount Everest nine times, the most of any woman in the world. We’ll investigate mysteries, such as the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, who, in 1924 disappeared high upon the slopes of Mount Everest, last seen at over 28,000’, going for the top. Their disappearance continues to captivate armchair mountaineers and would-be sleuths almost 100 years later.

What these men and women all share is a belief in oneself, the refusal to accept the common idea that something is impossible. Because it’s there will amaze, educate, entertain and inspire listeners to stretch the limits of imagination and begin to see what’s possible…

If you ever thought about what it would be like to sail around the world in an ancient-styled ship made of reeds, swim the English Channel, search for never before discovered species, climb Mount Everest, balloon around the globe, well, Because It’s There will share important and unique contributions to exploration, science, literature, adventure and human endeavor throughout history and into the future.

I’m your host, explorer/adventurer and filmmaker Thom Pollard. I’ve been all around this great big world, I look forward to sharing this exciting podcast with you, because it’s there.

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