Peter Frick-Wright (Host): This is The Outside Podcast.
I’m gonna suggest something I don’t usually suggest, here at the start of today’s episode. I’m gonna suggest that, if you like taking notes by hand, that you pause right here, and go grab a notebook. If you journal, go get your journal. If you’re like me, and mostly take notes on the back of envelopes strewn around your office, maybe go get the mail.
If you’re driving, and I know a lot of you are, you can use Siri or Google Voice assistant to text yourself stuff that you want to remember. I just learned this. There are also probably dedicated apps that let you take handsfree notes, but… I have no idea what they are.
The point is, there’s stuff in today’s episode that I think you’re going to want to remember. Small things. Nuggets. Bite-sized wisdom about living a better life. Being a better person.
These morsels of insight come to us from National Geographic photographer Cory Richards, and Outside writer Katie Arnold. Cory is the total stereotype of a National Geographic photographer. He’s spent his life pursuing high-risk expeditions around the world. He climbed Everest without oxygen, he was the first and still the only American to reach the summit of Gasherbrum II in winter. And two years…
