TuneIn Logo
TuneIn Logo
Home
Search
Local Radio
Recents
Trending
Music
Sports
News & Talk
Podcasts
By Location
By Language
Sign In
Sign Up

Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries

Premium Audiobooks
Premium Station Icon
Islands in the Snow
Islands in the Snow
Two days east of Lukla was a pleasant yak pasture surrounded by high peaks. When Col. Jim Roberts set out to look for it in 1953, he ended up making the first ascent of Mera Peak and sowing the seeds of Himalayan tourism.Mera Peak has become a popular...
Premium Station Icon
The Chomolungma Diaries
The Chomolungma Diaries
In April 2012 Mark Horrell travelled to Tibet hoping to become, if not the first person to climb Mount Everest, at least the first Karl Pilkington lookalike to do so.He joined a mountaineering expedition which included an Australian sexagenarian, two...
Premium Station Icon
The Everest Politics Show
The Everest Politics Show
In April 2014 Mark Horrell went on a mountaineering expedition to Nepal, hoping to climb Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain in the world, which shares a base camp and climbing route with Mount Everest.He dreamed of following in the footsteps of...
Premium Station Icon
The Manaslu Adventure
The Manaslu Adventure
The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world’s fourteen 8,000m peaks.Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake which destroyed a...
Premium Station Icon
Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers
Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers
This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.He made not one, not two,...
Sports, music, news, audiobooks, and podcasts. Hear the audio that matters most to you.
Listen NowSportsMusicNews & TalkPodcastsAudiobooksMore
About UsContact UsCareersPress
ProductSupportDevices
CommunitiesBrandsBroadcastersPodcasters
© 2025 TuneIn, Inc. All rights reserved
PrivacyTermsSitemapYour Privacy Choices
InstagramTwitterLinkedIn