The Happiness Quotient
Thom Dharma Pollard hosts inspirational, intimate and unfiltered Stories That Inspire with guests and drawing from his own adventures around the world. The Happiness Quotient: connected, engaged, passionate people who inspire us.
Episodes
137 episodes
STRANGEST Things About Mount Everest (NOT what you expect) | Eight Huge Myths Debunked
Mount Everest—legendary, dangerous, and shrouded in myths. But how much of what you've heard is actually true? Are climbers really lining up like rush hour traffic at 29,000 feet? Is the mountain littered with bodies and trash? Let's peel back ...
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Everest's Haunting MYSTERY: Did GEORGE MALLORY Contact Psychic Medium Geraldine Cummins After Disappearing on Mount Everest in 1924?
Under the glow of séance candles a psychic medium sits trancelike at a table, in front of her is a blank notebook. She begins to write the words of a spirit claiming to be George Mallory - the mountaineer who disappeared with his partner ...
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When The Strong Fall: The 1996 Everest Disaster - CONCLUSION
They say that gong to the summit is only halfway. And nowhere was that more true than on May 10, 1996 on Mount Everest. On that day Everest became the stage for one of the most harrowing disasters in mountaineering history. Eight climbers peris...
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SPECIAL SEGMENT | Shhh! Members Only Episode (for FREE!): How to Inflict Change by Pushing the Boundaries
Today we hiked two lovely mountains in the Sandwich Wilderness of the White Mountains in New Hampshire....each offered limited views at the summit. MOST IMPORTANTLY, the hike revealed some insights on personal transformation and ho...
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STORM Over Everest | The 1996 Disaster - What Happened and Who is To Blame?
Famed mountain climber and guide Rob Hall once said that if you’re stuck near the summit of Mount Everest you might as well be on the moon. Little did he know that his words would one day come true. This is PART 1 of a two part series on the 19...
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Decoding Scott Fischer's Role in the 1996 Everest Tragedy
Scott Fischer's fateful act may have been the clouded ambition that led him to say they were building a yellow brick road to the top of Mount Everest, and days later he was consumed by the very mountain that had propelled him into the world spo...
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Climbers Fall From Mount Everest and Disappear Because Of Overcrowding
Years ago Mount Everest was considered a mountaineer’s mountain, where a climber need only worry most about avalanches, hidden crevasses and the potential to succumb to Altitude Mountain Sickness.But now, something far more hazardous an...
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SPECIAL REPORT | Predator Hiding In Plain Sight: Prosecuted and Sent to Prison for Life
All that glitters is not gold: How Did This Climber Get Away with So Much for So Long?*In the world of mountaineering and climbing, where the peaks are high and the challenges even higher, there's an unspoken reverence for those who def...
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NEWS FLASH: Nimsdai's Troubles HEAT UP & the Mount Everest 2024 Season Recap | Records, Tragedies & Troubled Future
The 2024 Everest climbing season may go down in history for its extraordinary mix of achievements, controversies, and tragedies. From record-breaking summits and political tensions, lives lost, ignored rules, near misses and disturbing al...
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Boukreev Versus Everest: Anatoli Boukreev - Hero or Villain? Mount Everest's 1996 Tragedy
May 10, 1996: near the summit of Mount Everest a storm of unimaginable ferocity strikes, claiming the lives of eight climbers and leaving others stranded in a fight for survival. This is the story of one of the most controversial and tragic day...
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People Are Dying to Reach 'Into The Wild' Bus 142, Chris McCandless' Escape from Reality and Death by Starvation in Alaska
The cult-like mystique of Bus 142 and the story of Chris McCandless is a magnet for millions around the world. In the heart of the mysterious Alaskan wilderness, where nature's beauty and brutality coexist, there once stood a relic, an accident...
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Climbing Mount Everest at 19 Years of Age - Influencer Ryan Mitchell's Path to the Top
He’s 19 years old. His name is Ryan Mitchell. He had a dream that started a year and a half ago. He saved some money that he made from his 2 million subscriber YouTube channel. He went to Mount Everest. And, now he has a summit of Everest under...
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The Middle Way: Wade Davis (Pt 2) - Life, Death and Consciousness
Here is Part II of my exceptional conversation with Wade Davis about such things as:• Grateful Dead & the internet• Mao Tse-tung• Martin Luther King, Jr.• Biologically race is total fiction & racism the cruelest conceit&...
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George Mallory's Everest & Great Britain's Doomed 1924 Mission of Redemption with Author Wade Davis
The 100th Anniversary of the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine on Mount Everest on 8 June 1924 with Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence: The Great War Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. If you've ever put someone on a pedes...
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WHAT'S NEXT? Unveiling the Future of Everest Mystery YouTube Channel & The Happiness Quotient
Hey friends, thanks for stopping by. I want to take a few minutes to talk about the future of Everest Mystery, where we're going and what the future holds for all of us. Thanks for being a part of this wonderful community. Here is ...
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The Ultimate Cost of Climbing Mount Everest - 2023's Deadliest Season (Part 2)
This is PART TWO of a two part series on Everest's worst year. People who want to climb Mount Everest are motivated, goal oriented people with mental and physical toughness. In recent years more and more of these people have come t...
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How 2023 Became Mount Everest's Deadliest Season Ever - Part 1
If you ever wanted to climb Mount Everest you will want to watch this video first.I'm going to give you TEN good reasons why not to climb Mount Everest (actually 18). In PART I of this 2-part series we meet half of the 18 people who los...
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Has Everest Lost Its Soul? 2024 SEASON UPDATE
Mount Everest is like a ticking time b*mb or a kettle that's about to boil. With about 50 successful summits and the season half over, hundreds of climbers are waiting for weather to turn for the better in Base Camp. Climbers on summit da...
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FALLEN: George Mallory's Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition with Author Mick Conefrey
These days many people are often very cynical about Mount Everest. When they hear about it or think about it they think Mount Everest is a place with a pile of abandoned bodes, often with images of garbage and human waste and long lines of clim...
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Everest's Death Zone Doctor Poses Life or Death Dilemma to Climber
Thom Pollard dedicated two whole years of your life to a quest on Mount Everest. A quest to solve the mystery of the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine in 1924. Imagine that you've poured your heart and soul into a pursuit. And, j...
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Face To Face With George Mallory on Everest
*The mountaineering world was turned on its head on May 1, 1999 when the remains of George Mallory was discovered by Conrad Anker at about 26,750 feet or 8153 meters on the vast north face of Everest. When the news got out, it set the mountaine...
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Everest Left For Dead: The Haunting Story of David Sharp
Near the summit of Mount Everest in the death zone on the ridge of the north face there is a shallow cave, known infamously to all who climb there as the location where in 1996 an Indian man named Tsewang Paljor lay down to rest and never got u...
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Bring My Husband Home - Deliverance From 27,000 Feet on Mount Everest
"Do you think great expense and risk should be undertaken to remove bodies from Mount Everest?" The Indian government mounted an expensive and risky expedition to retrieve the remains of mountaineers who had perished on Mount Everest the year b...
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Death and Outrage on K2 - The Death of Muhammed Hassan
Interview with mountaineer Willi Steindl, who witnessed over 70 people stepping over Muhammed Hassan as he lay dying in the Death Zone on K2. The death of Mohammad Hassan on K2 has sent shockwaves through the mountaineering community...
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Deeper Than Everest (By a MILE) - Legendary Explorer and Oceanographer Don Walsh, the Historic Dive of the Trieste and Future of Exploration
My guest today was the FIRST to reach the DEEPEST point of the ocean, known as Challenger Deep. In 1960 US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss oceanographer and explorer Jacques Piccard piloted the bathyscaphe Trieste 35,797 ft BELOW THE ...
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