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Radio 5 Live,12 Jan 2018,21 mins

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In this final episode of the series, broadcaster and journalist, and self confessed Everest expert Steve Bunce tells Caroline Barker the tale of a man from Kazakhstan who day and night on the highest mountain, saved people from a frozen death with a series of rescues that seemed impossible. It is truly breathless at that altitude and in the thin air our hero went beyond reasonable human endurance to save lives. With a diversion back to his favourite subject of surfing Steve tells us briefly about Eddie Aikau, a man that took on the Pacific Ocean. The expression 鈥淓ddie would go鈥� is still commonly heard in Hawaii. But it鈥檚 the tale of elite mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev that ends this series of Bunce鈥檚 Tales of the Extraordinary.

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