An Almost Unabridged Expedition Experience.

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NEWSFLASH: The Rest of Everest declared a "Best of 2007" podcast by Apple's iTunes Podcast Directory! Second year in a row!

The Rest of Everest Nominated for Best Video Podcast at the 2007 People's Choice Awards. Thank you so much to everyone who nominated the show! More information can be found here.

The Rest of Everest is a video podcast conceived and created by documentary filmmaker Jon Miller of TreeLine Productions in Colorado. It is "the rest" of the footage from the groundbreaking expedition documentary "Everest: The Other Side" which engrossed thousands of viewers when it premiered on Dish Network™ Pay-Per-View in May of 2005. The film, and therefore this video podcast, documents the 2003 expedition to the Northeast Ridge route in Tibet, and coincides with the 50th anniversary climbing season. The story revolves around 23-year old climber Ben Clark and the fulfillment of his dream to become one of the youngest climbers to ever summit Everest.

Although the film has been very well received, there's just so much of the story left to be told.

Miller returned from Everest with over 80 hours of tape from the 60 day expedition. The final cut of the film totaled just 84 minutes. Average that out and it appears that only one minute of every hour filmed made it into the finished version.

This is a problem that every single film made about Everest suffers from: How in the world can you compress an experience as large as Everest into 90 minutes, or 60 minutes or 45 minutes?

Well, you can't. You can only show a small part of the total expedition.

Finally, through this video podcast, we're going to be able to show the full depth of the experience. From packing for overbooked flights to walking around Kathmandu. Traveling along the Friendship Highway into Tibet to setting up home at Base Camp. Climbing the upper reaches of the mountain and summitting in the worst conditions imaginable. Acclimatization, altitude sickness, pulmonary edema and chipped teeth. Frustration, anger, acceptance and transcendence. The camaraderie of an international climbing community. We even bake a cake at 17,000 feet!

Miller will be editing sections of footage together and then watching them with Ben and other people involved with the expedition. He'll be recording their commentary to the footage so you can get all of the stories right from the people who experienced it first-hand.It won't always be exciting and there will be a lot of bad hair days, but it will be true to the expedition experience and it will always be interesting and entertaining.

You've probably seen some of what it's like to climb Mount Everest. Well, this is the rest. This is The Rest of Everest.

For information on how to watch The Rest of Everest Video Podcast, please visit the Podcast Episodes page.