The Happiness Quotient
Thom Dharma Pollard
4.8from 58 ratings
- 176
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 58
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About The Happiness Quotient
Thom Dharma Pollard hosts inspirational, intimate and unfiltered Stories That Inspire with guests and drawing from his own adventures around the world. The Happiness Quotient: connected, engaged, passionate people who inspire us.
- Publisher
- Thom Dharma Pollard
- Category
- history · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 176 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Where is the Outrage? Himlung Avalanche & Commercial Mountaineering’s Darkest Dilemma After 16 Are Buried
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Nepal Avalanche Tragedy: Himlung Himal Base Camp Buried Under Snow (27 Sept) + 16 Dead or Missing
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: How to Avert a Junk Show on the World's Eighth Highest Mountain, Manaslu
Inside a recent episode
Where is the Outrage? Himlung Avalanche & Commercial Mountaineering’s Darkest Dilemma After 16 Are Buried
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It was not a mountain accident. I mean, it's an accident that happened on a mountain, but it was not a climbing accident. After that, as far as I know, there was no questioning. There was no vindication from the workers. No one said anything. There was a rescue team. They soon saw that there was no hope to find survivors. In fact, the leader of the first rescue team was Ming Ma Ji, who recently had been recovering the corpses from Road Peak. And he soon said that there was no hope and it made no sense to try and retrieve those bodies because they were buried under over four meters of snow. Well, the sensible way to deal with something like that was to wait for better weather, wait for part of that snow to melt and then retrieve the remains of those who died in that avalanche. […]
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- Angela Benavides
- Konstantin Smirnov
- Kristin Harila
- Andrew Ushakov
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 47 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 11 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
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- Quality
- 61
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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