Life Lessons from Death, Risk, and Mother Nature | Mountaineering Legend, Conrad Anker

Conrad Anker (0:00)

Having experienced death in the vicinity through climbing accidents and specifically the accident with Alex Lowe and David Bridges, and then coming back 16 years later and pulling their bodies out of the glacier and cremating them. It's like, yeah, I understand death and mortality, but not in a trivialized, sensational way that is used as entertainment, but rather more like it's something that we're all going to face, but we have to treat it with respect.

Michael Gervais (0:40)

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