The 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon might be the most disastrous sporting event in history. Thirty-two men started. Only fourteen finished. The winner was given rat poison and brandy to keep him moving. Barefoot runners were chased off-course by dogs. And race organizers intentionally restricted water because they believed dehydration helped performance!

This is the true story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon. A race so chaotic it nearly killed the Olympic marathon forever.

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Annapurna was the first 8,000-meter peak ever climbed, three years before Everest. It should have been a triumph. Instead, the climbers who made history lost every finger and toe getting back down.

75 years later, Annapurna is still taking lives. But now it's not just elite alpinists on the mountain, it's commercial clients, guided expeditions, and climbers who've never been above 8,000 meters.

This is the story of the world's deadliest mountain, the people who keep climbing it, and what it costs the Sherpas who make those climbs possible.

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Were 1,000 climbers really trapped on Mount Everest? Recently, the internet went wild with dramatic headlines, but the real story is very different.

In this podcast, we dig into what actually happened on Everest in the recent storm, who was really at risk, and how the truth got twisted.

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