Interview with Samina Baig From Pakistan

In this week’s short update of The All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall shares exciting podcast news and the latest stories from the Himalayas. Pauline talks about re-editing and upgrading older episodes, listener feedback, and upcoming replay choices — while ...  Show more

In this week’s episode of The All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall revisits the 1996 Mount Everest disaster — one of the deadliest seasons in the mountain’s history — to explore what really went wrong and how it changed climbing forever. Discover why eight cli ...  Show more

Mountaineer Naila Kiani is the second Pakistani woman (by three hours!) to summit K2 - the first to do it at the first attempt. Naila Kiani only took un mountaineering in 2018! She is a banker by profession, based in Dubai, and also a boxer! In 2021, she set a record by becoming ...  Show more

This week's guest is Raha Moharrak, the youngest Arab and first Saudi female to climb Mount Everest and the 7 summits of the world (highest peak of each continent). Raha's accomplishments and bold dreams have inspired the youth of our region, and especially young girls, to dream ...  Show more

Activist and mountaineer, Wasfia Nazreen, has an expansive talk with Raghu about her trek up the K2 peak and finding inner strength.This time on Mindrolling, Wasfia and Raghu explore: Connecting to Mother EarthHow abandonment taught Wasfia that education was her pathway to freedo ...  Show more

On this episode, I talk with the inspiring Elham Al Qasim, the first Arab woman and first Emirati to ski to the North Pole. We talk about what lead her to taking on the challenge, and how she handled the physical and mental aspect of it all. We also touch on the aftermath of achi ...  Show more