TONIGHT, 60 Minutes reaches for a new high with a breathtaking climb to base camp on Mount Everest. >> I am not looking down. Don't talk.Oh god, it's windy. I do not like this at all. >> We hiked 10 days into thin air.>> Welcome to Everest base camp. Our guides were the Sherpas who risk their lives to assist climbers. We found there's little margin for error on the journey to Everest.This is the setting that produced what is surely the most statistically improbable story in classical music history. Seven si ...

Sherpas navigate extreme conditions and treacherous pathways as they act as porters and guides for climbers summiting Everest. They put their lives on the line, often with little recognition. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTu ...

Let us make the case that the most successful music conservatory is not in Paris, Vienna or Berlin, but rather in a house on a treeline street in Nottingham, England. It might be an unpretentious structure, but it's there that seven extravagant talents were nourished on a variety of instruments before setting off to perform at the world's great concert halls, often as featured soloists with the world's great orchestras. Each of the seven is still under age 30, representing the young crossover stars that the ...

The last minute of 60 Minutes is sponsored by United Healthcare. Coverage you can count on for your whole life ahead. There are some words that don't roll off the tongue.Semiquincentennial is one of them, but we'll get plenty of practice in 2026 with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It's a chance to take stock. How well are we living up to our revolutionary ideals that all are created equal with unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happ ...

60 Minutes overtime. >> This week on 60 Minutes, our story is about the Sherpas of Nepal and our hike to Everest base camp. I guess you're always training in your world.Nema Renji Sherpa was our guide up to Everest base camp. He is also the person who holds the world record for being the youngest person to climb the world's 14 tallest mountains and he is an allaround amazing human being. >> When you go to Everest, you can feel the energy that you are so small.At that time you have to have a really like a li ...

Tonight, 60 Minutes reaches for a new high with a breathtaking climb to base camp on Mount Everest. >> I am not looking down. Don't talk.Oh god, it's windy. I do not like this at all. >> We hiked 10 days into thin air.>> Welcome to Everest base camp. >> Our guides were the Sherpas who risk their lives to assist climbers. We found there's little margin for error on the journey to Everest. ...

It began as soon as the planes landed. The deportiz thought they were headed from the US back to Venezuela, but instead they were shackled, paraded in front of cameras, and delivered to SECOT, the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador, where they told 60 Minutes they endured four months of hell. >> Did you think you were going to die there.>> We thought we were already the living dead, honestly. ...

In 2019, billionaire Ray Dalio told 60 Minutes the growing wealth gap in the country is a "national emergency." He warned that the issue "threatens to split us." This week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Dalio as a new partner of the so-called "Trump Accounts" program, a tax-deferred investment vehicle for American children, intended to secure their financial future. Dalio pledged to make a $75 million donation to children in Connecticut. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast ...

60 Minutes rewind. >> The past decade has been devastating for the Catholic Church. Seemingly endless cases of sexual abuse by priests and bishops who turned a blind eye to it and multi-billion dollar payouts to victims.All of which led to a steady loss of the faithful. One man the American church hopes can change all that is Timothy Dolan. for two years now the Archbishop of New York, the nation's most prominent pulpit.He's also been called the American Pope after his election to head the US Conference of ...

You've been a fan for like 50 years. You're not a bandwagon guy. >> No. No.I' I've been around through thick and thin. >> How thin did it get. >> Pretty thin.>> Indiana. >> He says that for years the tailgates drew more interest than the actual games. >> You're going to these football games and the stadium's half full and fans are leaving at halftime.>> They're not even half full. >> Less than half full. >> Yeah.Less than half full. I mean, you know, like if this is the stadium, there's just like a few peop ...