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Audio-Only Bonus Annapurna IV Recap Ben Clark's Spring 2008 Expedition - Postmortem. Ben and his climbing partners Josh Butson and Tin Clarke have returned from Nepal and their expedition on Annapurna IV. This year they went out to climb a 24,688' peak called Annapurna IV with the goal of summitting and performing the first ski descent of the peak. Well, things didn't go exactly as they had hoped, but it really was quite a journey. If you'd like to read and listen to all of the dispatches Ben sent back while on the mountain, please visit www.annapurnaiv.com Jon Miller Total Running Time: 5

Audio-Only Special Announcement! Everest Trek And Workshop For 2009! No video episode this week, but you may not mind. Please listen to this special episode and visit EverestTrek2009.com for more information. We'll return with video episode 081 next week. Thanks for listening! Jon Miller Total Running Time: 28:16

Audio-Only Bonus Annapurna IV Ben Clark's Spring 2008 Expedition. Ben and his climbing partners Josh Butson and Tin Clarke are heading back to Nepal for a new expedition. This year they are going to climb a 24,688' peak called Annapurna IV and once they summit they are going to try to accomplish the first ski descent. If you'd like to follow along with the team as they climb, please visit www.annapurnaiv.com Jon Miller Total Running Time: 19:56

Audio-Only Special Report Violence in Lhasa And Everest Closures. As many of you know, Tibet has been in the news of late with violence in the capital city of Lhasa. There's also been news that China has closed the North side of Everest to foreign climbing teams until the 10th of May, 2008. I've invited friend and Everest climber Alan Arnette to join me to discuss these stories. Alan was scheduled to be departing for Lhasa via Kathmandu in just over a week's time. Obviously the riots and closures have changed those plans. If you'd like to stay up to date with Alan and his plan to climb Evere

Episode 062 Tibet 2007 Series Introduction Back To Everest. Hello everyone and welcome to the Tibet 2007 series of The Rest of Everest video podcast. I wanted to take the time here in this episode to provide a bit of an overview of what to expect from this new series, but first I think it's best to look back to see where we've come from. I started The Rest of Everest officially back on April 13th 2006. I had hours and hours of raw footage from our film Everest The Other Side. Once I began enjoying video podcasts I got the crazy idea that people would probably be interested in seeing just wha

The Rest of Everest has been nominated for "Best Video Podcast" in the 3rd annual Podcast Awards. Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate me! Now, I need your continued support to vote for the show. The voting process begins Saturday, July 28th and runs through Saturday, August 11th. You can vote once per day, every day. Please consider taking the time to help the show out and vote often! Visit www.podcastawards.com and vote for The Rest of Everest!!! I cannot thank all of you enough. I have the best audience in the world. Jon Miller

LUNGevity Team Breathing Strong! They Made It! This is just a quick Bonus episode to let everyone know that the LUNGevity team made the summit and are back down safely. At 12:40pm on May 23rd in Tibet Brian Oestrike and Justin Hewitt stood on the summit of Everest. It was a late summit in strong winds, but they made it and have at least made it down to Camp 2 as I write this post. I just thought I'd take the opportunity to share a few thoughts from the team from my talk with them in mid-April from Base Camp. Enjoy this extra video update, and I'll release the regular episodes of Rest of Evere

Tibet 2007 Update Back to Everest! Hey everyone, I just wanted to give a quick update on the upcoming trip. Everything is moving along nicely and it's quickly getting to be time to leave. April 1st to be exact! I've set up a new website specifically for this new adventure. You can find it at http://tibet2007.therestofeverest.com. . It will have all kinds of blog entries from our travels as well as audio dispatches in real time from my satellite phone. These dispatches will also be the basis of a companion podcast called The Rest of Everest: Tibet 2007. If you would be interested in subscribing

Bonus Episode - China "Wild Horses" Part 2 First Ascent.Here is the second in a 3-part series covering Ben Clark's October, 2006 climbing expedition in China. Ben and his climbing partner Josh Butson climbed several peaks in Sichuan province, one of which had been previously unclimbed. Enjoy this adventure from the far eastern Himalayas. Total Running Time: 15:55

Bonus Episode - China "Wild Horses" Part 1 Recent Adventures. Here is the first in a 3-part series covering Ben Clark's October, 2006 climbing expedition in China. Ben and his climbing partner Josh Butson climbed several peaks in Sichuan province, one of which had been previously unclimbed. Enjoy this adventure from the far eastern Himalayas. Total Running Time: 24:25

Episode 034 New Friends, Old Weather Hot Males, Hotmail And Virucide. Not long after Ben left camp this morning we were visited by some Chinese military officials. Apparently there were here to disinfect Base Camp. I mean that literally--they were clothed in their crisp green dress uniforms, boots, paper masks and spraying apparatus. SARS, or Severe Acute Respitory Syndrome has been on everyone's mind this season and the Chinese are going to do something about it. These men walked all over BC spraying some sort of foul-smelling concoction around tents and toilets. Yeah, I feel sooo much safer

Episode 033 Climb On! There Are Butterflies At Everest. It was a long time coming, but the wind has finally calmed down enough for the climb to resume. It's not gone, mind you, but just diminished enough to step outside again and for the team to return to ABC. I have to say that I have really mixed feelings about the climb moving forward. Over the course of the entire windstorm we were all upset about having to hunker down and wait out the weather. Yes, it was a pain to have to sit around and do nothing for days on end. But what I've come to realize is that in some ways it was a very good thi

Episode 031 Weather Report "The train is coming tomorrow...". The weather reports we are getting are dismal. The thing is, you can't just keep waiting and waiting for good weather. It's time to put up or shut up. Tomorrow, Ben and Lhawang will return to ABC to see what can be done about getting to the top of this mountain. Our good friend, Denis, from one of the other expeditions has subscribed to some weather reports. Unfortunately, he had no computer with which to access them! Fortunately, he found us and we've worked out a symbiotic situation where he uses my computer to get the reports, t

Episode 029 Waiting Out The Weather Everest Is Boring. It turns out that Everest can be as much about sitting around on your duff as it is about climbing. Why are we here, again? You mean we didn't come up here to sit around drinking tea and surf the internet over an unbelievably expensive satellite modem? Oh, that's right. We're here to stress out about the possible carnage of our gear up on the North Col... As the hours pass we've begun to get more visitors. It's well known that we have a very pleasant camp...and email. You wouldn't believe how important access to personal email is up here

Episode 025 Back to Base Camp Give It a Rest. Even here at ABC, I still can't believe I'm here at Everest! This is one of the problems with being a photographer: sometimes you need to put the camera down and experience things for real. It's too easy to view your world as an outside observer through the lens. This is why, after so much planning and reading and thinking about Everest, it is easy to forget that I'm not just watching all of this on a tiny video monitor in the viewfinder...I'm actually here! Wait a minute, was that a little difficult to follow? Maybe it's time to head back down to

Episode 024 7900 Meters A Personal Altitude Record. I awoke on this first morning at Everest's North Side ABC with the most beautiful sight. No, it wasn't the world's highest peak, but the intricate lace of frost that had formed on the inside of my tent. Up here at 6400 meters, or 21,000 feet the temperature drops dramatically overnight. Although it can feel like you can't breathe well up here, you actually can quite well, and the water vapor from your breath magically freezes into beautiful frost patterns on the nylon tent cloth above you. I didn't think I was going to sleep very well, but I

Episode 023 Climbing The North Col Seeing Spots. I might not be a mountaineer, but it's time for me to climb Everest. Well, up to ABC anyway. The altitude up high is making my vision and balance a little funny. We left BC a couple of days ago and headed up the well worn path leading up to Interim Camp. Man, not my favorite place in the world but only had to spend a few hours of sleep there. Today, Andre (the 68-year-old Belgian climber sharing our camp) and I trudged up to ABC. This was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I found the altitude very difficult to hike through. It wasn't

Episode 021 ABC FYI "Pretty Mellow". A climb of Mount Everest truly begins at ABC. Advanced Base Camp is the first major camp past BC, and where many climbers spend most of their time. It is about 22km from this gravel pit we call Base Camp, but like most things around here, it's a world away. Most climbers take a couple of days to make the BC-ABC journey their first time, but I'm told that by the end of the expedition it will only take them around 5 hours! See, that's the power of acclimatization. And that's why so many climbers will stay close to ABC for the duration of the climb. The longe

Episode 017 Weighing the Expedition Things Are Getting Heavy. Climbing Everest is not like a typical backpacking trip. We have so much gear and food that you can almost hear the mountain groan under our weight. This is pretty much par for the course. Imagine packing up everything you own and moving it to a gravel pit in the middle of nowhere. This is what we've accomplished so far! They were a day late, but the men who organize the yaks came today and literally weighed everything we plan on taking up the mountain with us. The yaks will carry everything up to Advanced Base Camp (6000 meters, 2

Episode 009 Tingri Office and Day Spa "American Prayer Flags". Well, we're now in the shadow of Mount Everest, in the little town of Tingri, Tibet. This place is around 14,000 feet and a popular place for climbers to start getting used to the altitude. We're staying in a little hotel right off of "Main St." and since there are so few trees around, the building is mostly made out of mud. The walls all seem to be several feet thick and our rooms are decorated with wall coverings that can only be described as hot pink floral-print sheets. My head has begun to pound from the altitude and I have to

The Rest of Everest is a video podcast conceived and created by documentary filmmaker Jon Miller of TreeLine Productions in Colorado. It is "the rest" of the footage from the groundbreaking expedition documentary "Everest: The Other Side" which engrossed thousands of viewers when it premiered on Dish Network™ Pay-Per-View in May of 2005. The film documents the 2003 expedition to the Northeast Ridge route in Tibet, and coincides with the 50th anniversary climbing season. The story revolves around 23-year old climber Ben Clark and the fulfillment of his dream to become one of the youngest climber