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12/3/08: High Crimes on Everest

Mount Everest from the summit of Ama Dablam. Photo by Michael Kodas.
Mount Everest from the summit of Ama Dablam. Photo by Michael Kodas.

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – When the journalist Michael Kodas went to climb Mount Everest in 2004, he envisioned the project as an adventure piece. By the time he returned he had a crime story. Kodas discovered an atmosphere of corruption on Everest: petty thieves and con men, prostitutes, extortionists. Michael Kodas joins Doug to talk about the book he's written on the experience. It's an expose of a culture that exploits the grand impulse for adventure. (Rebroadcast)

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