Welcome to The Other Marthas: the show where a drama student and a film graduate try to make sense of things we wish we were qualified in instead. In this episode, we embark on the first part of a trilogy on the perils of Earth's highest peak: Mount Everest. Today, we focus on the deadly blizzard of May 10th-11th 1996, one of the mountain's greatest recorded disasters to this day. Tune in to follow the heroic and too often tragic stories of 1996 climbers including Rob Hall and Scott Fisher, as well as one man's miraculous return from the dead... THREE TIMES.  

Please note, this episode (and its two subsequent parts) centre around the extreme dangers of climbing Everest, including altitude-related illnesses, hypothermia, frostbite, and deadly falls. There is description throughout of extreme mental and physical hardship, high risk, and death (sometimes involving controversial culpability) - not for the easily disturbed!