Training for a Disastrous Solo Expedition

I have this notion and I realize this predates Airborne operations by a decade. The thought crossed my mind that you could have had if it weren't for World War two if Paratry of operations had been created outside of You know, World War two. you might have had a British person who be like, what if we did a huge paradroph on Mount Everest? Like almost all these guys are going to die, but one of them will land on the top and then we can say that we did it Oh, I'm so happy you brought that up. Oh I didn't know it was in advance. This is just me firing off ideas. so I assure you, someone's gonna to think of that and it's even dumber than you can possibly imagine. I just hold that thought Now, Lady Houston invited Lord Clydesdale over for dinner and he impressed her thanks to his wonderful table manners and because he wore his dress kilt I also assume because he ate carrots from her hand without biting her. Exactly. He resisted the to stomp her children. Yeah. He's a very well behaved horse. He was restrained and didn't snatch the apples off the table until he was told he was allowed to. Ga stuff this giant Clydesdale into the plane, make him wear goggles and a scarf. Oh, what are you talking about? Gundo So everything goes back to Gundam She agreed to dump money in the project after that, and the planes that were used were heavily modified by planes because they needed enclosed cockpits with supplemental oxygen Heated flight suits, special fuels so it didn't get thickened or freeze from the cold in altitude And this does succeed, but one of the planes does nearly fall out of the sky due to a problem with the pilot's oxygen line and then he nearly passed out What I'm getting at is Flying over Everest took years to plan, a wealthy financier and an entire team of highly trained professional horse pilots to pull off Wilson had none of these But what he did have was a mindful of madness and a dream Like I said, Wilson read these news articles and got inspired by them. So he decided Rather than come up with an idea of his own or Just try to climb Mount Everest, like normal people had so far He would just try to kind of Yes and The Houston expedition Obviously, flying to the peak of Everest was now possible. He could simply fly a plane to the summit fail out deploy a parachute land, and then climb the rest of the way to the summit. all by himself So yeah, the idea of the Everest paratrooper was invented by Maurice Wilson ee, first of all, I'm glad he and I are enough of the same brain wave that I thought it and you now reveal to me that he thought it Another part of me thinks like I know people who would be like this guy in real life, but they have Facebook so they just get really into Delta nine THC gummies. L he'd probably love those to be. I probably would. He doesn't keep these plans to himself either. he tells pretty much everyone he meets about them, and universally, they all laugh in his face and tell him he's crazy, which Sounds like he is He is. He's a little nuts Now there's a lot of issues here that I really feel like we don't need to go into as to why this plan is bad There is one small detail we probably should talk about And that is Wilson has no idea how to fly a plane nor has he ever parachuted it Yeah. ye, I was thinking about this like Who's gonna fly the plane, if not him And also how does one getet into parachuting this early on in the history of aviation considering You didn't have like you know, long hair having ass like metal headad guy and, you know, ural North Carolina who's also really, really Christian, who does like skydiving tours. Yeah, and only has like three fatal accidents in a safety record Yeah, that kind of thing did not exist yet, but if there's one guy you can believe in to find a way around it, it is Maurice Wilson Pare there's a second large problem here that you kind of picked up on is that Yeah, nobody would climb out ever uil nineteen fifty four when the the two guys did it. but Nobody would solo climb out Everest until nineteen eighty So Maarise is well ahead of the curve on this attempt. from my understanding, there hasn't even been an attempt to solo Everest at this point because Doing it as an expedition is so crazy still. Be Nobbody had done it Everybody' still trying to find the correct route, the right camps, because there are quite a few camps are on the side of the mountains from other expeditions So like the idea of soloing it is absolutely absurd. Yeah I was wr nineteen thirty four who sollded it. and then he also did it without oxygen, but' he didn't do that solo. Yeah. Yeah,'s This is wild. Yeah, okay. I mean I am laughing because Maurice Wilson, not too far from Muray Wilson. so there's maybe the possibility that he' secretly because it's also a Calornia connection. Maybe he'suray Wilson's dad who ran off and he's also the reason for the beach boys. Yeah, he's the reason why Brian Wilson is crazy. You know, like There's all sorts of opportunities here. Ask Brian Wilson, a strange, great, great grandfather with one arm. See if it sends him into a fit However, none of this stuff is going to stop him First, we'll sort of need to take flying lessons. And he does He does very badly. Um During one lesson, he crashes his plane and nearly kills his instructor. and his instructor refuses to fly with him again So, he switches instructors to keep training And even then it took two times longer than normal before he was finally able to be given his pilot's license. And and while we're on the subject, we should talk a little bit about what it takes get a license in what is then nineteen thirty three Britain because there really isn't much It's also completely depending on the instructor of when he thinks you're good to go, but this could only take a few weeks to maybe three months at the high end. And as for solo flying, like time behind the stick all on your own, three hours That's all it takes. I'm sorry. I'm listen to everything you say, I promise I promise I am. I genuinely am because this is fascinating, but also in my mind The gears are turning as you can probably recognize the expression on my face And now all I can think of is I sure do Miss Harrowin. But there's a Nepalese mountain. I think I'll go and climb it If I could only find it, God how I wish those bullets had killed me Second Homes album available now. It is. yeah, my band that doesn't sing parody songs about traumatized for War one, Vurn to cllim Est. Our album is out. It' called Find A Way to Hate it. You can buy it on Spotify. I don't want to pubish this too much, but it's avable on streaming now, because I didn't set the date far up in the future on Distro kids. Sorry, I'm a fucking idiot, but it is available streaming now. but it's out now it's now This brings us to another element of Wilson's plan Everyone, even the guys who flew over Everest a ship to get there Their planes would be packed up. Every would be set up once they traveled to the Himalayas And and then and only then but they fly, right Wilson plananted flying the entire way whichich meant that he would have to fly Further, just to get out of his hometown Then he had flown so far in totality. something that was far, far beyond his abilities. He also has no real knowledge of how to navigate Um, because navigation then is like literally a paper map, a compass And some prayers. He's got the prayers covered We'll get to that. First, we have to get to the parachutoting, because he sucks at that too. This one isn't on him. Really all parachuting back then is terrible? Yeah, I mean, all parachuting now unless you're using specialty parachutes is kind of a it's for a Art of falling on your ass than a science. Yeah. And back then it was just far more primitive equipment Yeah, a lot of people are injured. He begins hurling himself out of rental planes and nearly dying each time U from from what I could understand from his diary injuries Quite a few of the pilots did not know, in fact that he was going to jump out of the plane when he did She doesn't get I like surprise. That's probably my favorite part about him Milly. I love that he's surprised parachuted on some other fuckers. He had would havealth a reputation, the aviation community, if you couldn't already guess Yeah, yeah, yeah, sort of the you person who gets so mad they step they try to open the door of a moving car on the highway, except a plane I was like, what's in that giant backpack, mister Wilson? Oh, it's my lunch. Don't worry about. I'm really hungry. I have the world's biggest sandwich. Don't look inside On one of these ventures, he busts both of his ankles and that's not the only thing that slows him down until they heal And this is what causeed this is the only thing that happens. that makes him change his plans because he realizes I probably can't parachute onto Everest, notot because the idea is crazy But because like, well, if I bust my ankles I won't be able to climb the mountain Yeah. I mean, as somebody who's dealt with sererious injuries to both ankles. thankfully not at the same time, but In various aspects of military training, I have severely sprained either ankle. It's no fun. sucks. Yeah And then when you gott to walk on it, when they're busted, it's even worse. And now imagine having an ankle injury like six thousand meters up byz. cool. It's like, well at least there's all this air I can breathe. Hell yeah Afterwards, he buys a used to Havlin Gypsy moth biplane A plane that entered production about ten years before And he named it the ever rest, like rest with a W. meaneing that maybe he wanted to suplex the mountain ever rest. I will I will constantly be doing battle That's right a mountain doing hand to hand combat with the world's tallest mountain. This could only end my victory I mean does start to seem like internal monologue of like the nineteen thirties equivalent of a guy with a stolen shopping cart full of like copper he scrapped out of a building. Yeah, except is he has a bit of money, right? Like it's kind of like the guy who built the sub that killed rich people. Yeah. like if this guy did not have