In this episode of Physics World Weekly, we have a special extended interview with Melanie Windridge, a physicist with a taste for adventure. Earlier this year, Windridge achieved the personal feat of trekking to the highest point on Earth – the summit of Mount Everest. She speaks to Physics World’s James Dacey about how science and technology have made the ascent more accessible since the original ascents of the 1950s.

Windridge also wrote about the experience in the September issue of Physics World and produced a series of videos about the Science of Everest for the Institute of Physics (which publishes Physics World).

At the end of the podcast, Dacey is joined by Physics World’s general physics editor Hamish Johnston. They discuss how a new measurement of the electron’s electric dipole moment (EDM) has cast doubt on several prominent theories of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

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