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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.

Prosecutors laid out their case against Guy Reffitt, who is the first defendant connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to face trial. His attorney described the case as based on "hype."

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.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews a new CD by Queens of the Stone Age. Its called R, as in the movie ratings code for Restricted. The band is currently on tour as part of OZZfest.

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

The list of five Republicans includes three lawmakers who voted against certifying the election results after the attack.

The former president's White House records are sought by the Democratic-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The former vice president said Trump's "reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day," in his most forceful rebuke yet of his two-time running mate.