The Tale of Maurice Wilson (Don't try this!)

[@NimanWielder01]

That is the best reason to delay a video I've ever heard. I need to keep tabs on that album.

[@DiamandaHagan]

If Vaults lets me I'm gonna do a version of the Belgica story with the complete album inside it, heh.

[@Eloraurora]

"Video delayed because I accidentally over-induced ✨️inspiration✨️ in my collaborator" is a pretty amazing reason.

[@emilyking9250]

I never get tired of hearing tales of adventures that end in disaster.

[@trevingrayek1671]

Greatest American Hero reference? You spoil us. Anyway, always love hearing these stories

[@CanIswearinmyhandle]

This is what people do when they don't have hobbies. These days he would be a Dark Souls speedrunner

[@DiamandaHagan]

On a guitar.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

You remind me of a thought I had while reading Arthur Conan Doyle's _The Lost World._ When the crew is assembled and they go through the big-game hunter's backstory, how he was a wealthy aristocrat who decided to spend his life shooting at slave-traders and smuglers I thought "wow! If this guy was born in these days he would be a relaity show star or a prank youtuber. But back then people needed to do notable feats to become famous" ... admitedly its kind of cynical from my part to read about a _fictional_ altruist gunslinger and inmediately say "you're only doing it for the atention" 😅

[@justinsheppherd1806]

Wow. I will never tire of hearing you tell the tales of people who mistakenly believed that being English was a super power. Amazing, and arse-bitingly stupid at the same time. :)

[@westheriault3797]

YES agreed

[@thetux459]

If only they realized that it's only a superpower if you're Adam Adamant.

[@kassemir]

This was actually such a wild story. The fact that he made it as far as he did is honestly beyond impressive :)

[@TroubleToby3040]

You are so right that this should be a movie. A dark comedy. I think I'd have him actually summit, then include a brief, small credit saying, "Actually, he died in the attempt, but that's such a bummer, so..."

[@brittanybecker170]

From someone who lives where its expected to get -40 C every winter before you add the windchill, I beg you DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE COLD! Its deadly even if you are wearing good winter clothing. If anyone for whatever reason is thinking of coming north to Canada, DO NOT make any trips on foot in the winter. We had a family, including their toddler, die a few years ago because they were dropped off in the middle of nowhere Manitoba in a blizzard. Please, be safe.

[@MusicGeekery]

I wish I could also possess the unmitigated, unjustified confidence of a man who has no concept of his own inadequacies. This was both fascinating and hilarious and I'd love to hear more tales like this. Also gonna be keeping an eye out for the concept album.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Well, Maurice Wilson was most likely severely mentally ill - and probably not just from the chronic pain and PTSD he got from his experiences and injuries in World War I. I'm not even sure I would call what drove him on "confidence". I think "pathological obsession/fixation" would be a better description. He really seemed to believe that climbing Mount Everest - and using that accomplishment to promote his religious/spiritual beliefs - was his only reason to exist in this world. A mission he was assigned to by a higher power.

[@wisecur]

He seems the sort of character Michael Palin could have played in a biopic back in the 80s.

[@martinsriber7760]

Clearly he didn't believe and fast enough.

[@pauldecker4630]

That is a wonderful reason to have to delay the Belgica video.

[@danaeckert6824]

Really love these history vids! Thank you, Mistress.

[@DanJaguar]

That was a great one! Thanks, I learned something delightfully weird today.

[@baronagony4767]

I enjoy this

[@DiamandaHagan]

Glad :)

[@farshnuke]

I have been subscribed to you on Twitter for years. How is this the first video I have seen of yours. The algorithm works in mysterious ways.

[@GallowglassVT]

It's kinda humbling, as an English person, to see stuff like this then look at the daft shite Americans have been up to for the past 300 years and remind myself who they got it from. It'd be funny if we weren't NOW taking the worst tips from them, like how to run a country or a health service and the like.

[@jamly3465]

Great stuff. Would love to hear more about your fav bits of weird history

[@DiamandaHagan]

I have plans to do shorts about weird history that's not long enough for a proper video. Very varied stuff.

[@dennisflood7246]

Love these videos about historic explorers.

[@leekalba]

I enjoy the history stuff because it's always something kind of obscure but not esoteric

[@Pratchettgaiman]

Kinda sounds like the "insane British explorer who thinks he's more competent than he actually is: you sometimes see in media

[@cecelias_]

Okay, I need to get a book on this guy. The amount of confidence men had in their ability (or lack of ability) back then is staggering. Like Aleister Crowley supposedly attempting to climb Mount K2 in Pakistan, getting horrendously drunk off of the champagne he’d brought with him, then having to come back down with the mother of all hangovers.

[@sholem_bond]

I wonder if the high heel thing inspired that one Monty Python sketch about the team of hairdressers trying to climb Everest?

[@alfje5492]

Ah, the good old days, where a guy who never took no for an answer, ended up only hurting himself.

[@93MANIAC]

Now I'm really excited to see the third part about the Belgica expedition and speaking of polar expeditions I really hope that you can make a video about the Nautilus Expedition to the North Pole and no I'm not talking about the one from 1958 that involved the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine that was specifically designed for that kind of expedition I'm talking about that expedition from the early 1930 where someone thought that it was really good idea to sail under the North Pole using a World War I submarine

[@Morbos1000]

Just had a random thought watching this that it is ironic that it took mountain climbers so long to finally reach the peak of Everest, the highest point on Earth humans could theoretically have reached under their own power for all of human history, that by the time they finally did it airplanes had already taken people to even higher elevations.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Seems like Mount Everest isn't that "hungry" this year. Only eight people died on the mountain, so far. The death count for last year was eighteen. That includes people who were evacuated/rescued, but died in hospitals from HAPE (high-altitude pulmonary edema) and other effects of altitude sickness afterwards.

[@ryandowney9383]

New series: Laugh At History

[@ShadeMeadows]

Let's goooo~

[@sholem_bond]

It seems like Sylvia Pankhurst was the one who was leftist and communist? Emmeline and Christabel were more middle class-focused, while Sylvia tried to focus her activism on working class women and class struggle specifically.

[@georgewhiteandtotalbratani7914]

I believe he pronounced it 'Morris' (the British way).

[@corvuscorvus7138]

GAAAAHHHH

[@noahasencio8589]

Hi 👋

[@butchdeadlift10]

0:39 now that is one heck of a friend you got there.