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Kenneth Kamler, Md is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip during which 6 people died. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. (The Lyons Press) Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles. I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamler's day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. He's done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

As we approach the final days of 2021, we look back on the year that was and the year ahead with The Atlantic's Derek Thompson.

The biggest story of the night is that Democrats took back the House. That will stop President Trump's agenda in its tracks unless he compromises with the other side.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to journalist Natasha Del Toro about her new podcast, Verified: The Next Threat, about the rise of a global movement that is propelled by white supremacy.

Phasmids is an eclectic collective of artists and creatives. That approach to the band and the music is reflected in the synth-pop / prog-rock hybrid that…

First half, Dave Frishberg. Second half, Ed Ward reviews some tex-mex bands.

We remember former Tommy Thompson, a co-founder of the string band the Red Clay Ramblers, who died this past week.

Mark Jenkins reviews Pulp, a British Band that mixes working class pop with sharp and glossy production values. The cd is called DIFFERENT CLASS BY PULP on Island Records. (5:30) (IN S

Rock historian Ed Ward remembers the 60s band MC5.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took a rare step to slam a series by Fox News host Tucker Carlson attempting to whitewash the Jan. 6 insurrection.