Ama Dablam
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Sep 9, 2026
Ryan MitchellGUEST
So all these things, kind of just putting myself out in the mountains, especially long, hard days, increased that threshold that I was able to tolerate.
Ryan MitchellGUEST
And I think the biggest day that I knew that we had a shot at Everest without, uh, oxygen was we did Ama Dablam in a single push from base camp on day, like, 12, which isn't a crazy amount of time to acclimatize, but yeah, doing that entire mountain in a day, which is about, like, eight and a half-- I think it was 8,500 or 9,000 feet of gain, technical climbing, of course, just fully in one push.
Ryan MitchellGUEST
It ended up being, like, 23 hours.
Ryan MitchellGUEST
I was like, "Dude, Justin, we actually have a shot at getting up Everest without oxygen, I think."
Ryan MitchellGUEST
It makes it harder to get into the sport, because if you don't-- It's either, like, you learn or you die.
Ryan MitchellGUEST
So I was very fortunate to know Justin, who I went on Everest with.
Ryan MitchellGUEST
I did that Ama Dablam with.
Ryan MitchellGUEST
He was an, he was an IMG guide, International Mountain Guides.
Jen DrummondGUEST
And my friends are like, no, you're not.
Jen DrummondGUEST
If you're going to climb one mountain in your entire life, you're climbing this beautiful mountain named Ama Dablam in Nepal.
Jen DrummondGUEST
I'm like, okay, cool.
Jen DrummondGUEST
Checks off Nepal.
Jen DrummondGUEST
It's a beautiful, whatever.
Jen DrummondGUEST
And so I'm training for Ama Dablam and then COVID enters the scene.
Jen DrummondGUEST
And so now I'm homeschooling children and not going anywhere exotic.
Jen DrummondGUEST
And one of my sons was struggling with his math homework.
Ollie OllertonGUEST
And Nims kind of got me back onto the mountain.
Ollie OllertonGUEST
I climbed Amadablam in the Himalayas.
Ollie OllertonGUEST
And he really created this sense of or this taste for the extremes again.
Helen FarmerHOST
I think he was someone that made the impossible seem possible.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
So I was there all those days, you said.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
Luckily, I was able to be in the mountains most of the time, and the first episode of my research was taking part in a commercial climbing expedition myself, and I climbed a mountain, which is called Ama Dablam.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
It's 6,812 meters to be exact.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
It's a beautiful mountain.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
She is super steep, and she looks like the queen of the Himalaya right there.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
It's in the Everest region as well, the Khumbu region, so everybody who ever walked towards Everest base camp also walked along Ama Dablam.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
Uh, so I joined in.
Gaby DijkstraGUEST
I hired a commercial climbing, uh, expedition organization, a Nepalese one, and I just joined in.
Rene MorkosGUEST
I was a stomach bug.
Rene MorkosGUEST
And then on Amadablam, I had a flu, so that sucked as well.
Rene MorkosGUEST
And that wasn't easy.
Rene MorkosGUEST
But yeah, I mean, these mountains have this ability to just... really really you know cut you down the size um i had it that night on on on merritt peak of all things right and just really really just not feeling well painful etc right uh on everest you know um yeah i was super paranoid about not being sick so i i was like people make fun of me because i use that hand sanitizer i think like everywhere all the time you know etc but i wasn't sick and so i was very very fit at the same time there's a psychological aspect to it This thing's big.
Jenn DrummondGUEST
On that list was climb a mountain.
Jenn DrummondGUEST
Um, I was gonna climb a mountain named Ama Dablam, and my son heard it as I'm a dumb blonde-
Kayvon KayHOST
Oh, wow
Jenn DrummondGUEST
... and upped that to Everest.
Simon WhistlerHOST
The mountain climbers intended to ascend Mount Makalu without oxygen.
Simon WhistlerHOST
They didn't succeed, although they did reach the summit of Ama Dablam.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Meanwhile, Pugh's scientific project was considered a great success, seen now as one of the definitive studies on high altitude physiology.
Simon WhistlerHOST
But that doesn't interest us today.