All the ways Everest can kill you

A useful Wired video for our extremes unit.

We always teach this during the Everest climbing season.

Down into the Volcano

A companion piece to the Human Planet story on Extreme Jobs - people undertaking the tourist trek. Not checked 100% for fruity language just yet. 

Thought for the Day

“We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had “suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole.” We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”

Sir Ernest Shackleton

Today is the 105th anniversary of the day that Sir Ernest, along with Tom Crean and Frank Worsley arrived at the whaling station at Stromness on South Georgia, following the boat trip from Elephant Island and the crossing of thae mountains and glaciers of South Georgia itself...