John Spellman

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@ChrisGloninger

[Poornima Shrestha @poornimashresth]

I took this video while descending from the summit of Mt Everest (8,848.86 m) and approaching Everest Base Camp on 22 May 2026. Crossing the Khumbu Icefall has always meant navigating collapsing seracs, shifting ladders, and deep crevasses, but now another danger is rapidly appearing across the glacier: newly formed meltwater streams flowing through the ice itself.

This did not feel like the Everest I first knew. It felt like witnessing the meltdown of the world’s highest mountain.

During the 2026 Everest season, I walked beneath the Khumbu Icefall and felt something deeply unsettling. The mountain no longer looked frozen and permanent. It looked fragile. It looked wounded.

Scientists have repeatedly warned that the Himalaya is warming faster than the global average. Study after study shows Himalayan glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate due to rising global temperatures caused by climate change. Some research suggests glaciers across the Hindu Kush–Himalaya region have lost ice significantly faster in recent decades than they did during the previous centuries. If global warming continues unchecked, experts warn that up to one-third, and potentially far more, of Himalayan glacier ice could disappear by the end of this century.

What I witnessed on Everest no longer feels distant or theoretical. The warning signs are already here. The ice beneath climbers’ feet is changing. Meltwater is flowing through places that were once permanently frozen. Ancient bodies trapped beneath glaciers are reappearing. Seracs are becoming more unstable. Entire sections of the mountain feel more unpredictable than ever before.

For millions of people across Asia, this is not only about mountaineering. The Himalaya is often called the “Third Pole” because it stores one of the world’s largest reserves of ice outside the Arctic and Antarctica. These glaciers feed rivers that support nearly two billion people downstream. What happens here will eventually affect water, food, disasters, and survival far beyond the mountains themselves.

As a mountaineer moments like this deeply affect me. We come to these mountains chasing dreams, and summits, but the mountains are now showing us their pain through melting ice, unstable glaciers, collapsing seracs, and silence.

Everest is speaking to humanity through this meltdown. The question is whether the world will finally listen before these warnings become irreversible.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

Letang #bucciovertimechallenge @Buccigross

[Trae Crowder @traecrowder]

There was another attempt on Trump’s life….OR WAS THERE

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@MarkLazerus The Nook.

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

Never get in an argument with somebody smarter than you. @JDVance is an idiot.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

@JDVance Vice President Vance,

You told Pope Leo XIV to be more “careful” when “opining on theology” twice this week.

The American bishops’ committee on doctrine rebuked you.

Do you rescind those remarks?

[FloHockey @FloHockey]

NO WAY!!!! 🤯

Riley Mercer of the @IAWild made a save you will have to see to believe and even then you might not. I MEAN, WHAT!???

#AHL | @TheAHL

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@chantel_mccabe Yes please.

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@soIoucity It progresses with age. Vodka/ something (sweet), whiskey (adulting) wine (can’t do whiskey anymore) and less wine (age)

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Jon Taffer explains the economics of running a restaurant @gottatrythispod

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

“You have three older brothers that now look up to you. You will always be our champion.”

As Haley Winn gets ready for @TeamUSA’s gold medal game against Canada, her brothers, Casey, Ryan and Tommy, leave their sister an encouraging and heartwarming voicemail. ❤️

@usahockey | @Olympics

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

This woman is a genius

[Trae Crowder @traecrowder]

How can anyone possibly defend what ICE/Border Patrol is doing?!

[Brigham's Burner @FiredUpCoug]

I went to my very first NHL game last night. It was actually my very first Hockey game of any kind.

Here are 10 things that surprised me:

1) Perhaps the best behaved fans I've ever seen at any sporting event. People are respectful of sight lines, and don't stand or yell unless there's a reason to.

2) It's an incredibly family friendly atmosphere. So many kids there with their parents and grandparents, everyone having a great time.

3) The sounds are amazing! From the blaring fog horn, to the hypnotic swishing sound of blades cutting ice, to the cracking slaps of the puck hitting the glass, I could have enjoyed that experience with my eyes closed.

4) The action is constant during the game, with almost no pauses. Having no out of bounds makes it an incredibly fun sport to watch with limited interruptions.

5) The period breaks are delightful. Plenty long to go and grab a snack, use the bathroom, or have a conversation with the fans next to you.

6) The referees are part of the entertainment. I loved watching them dive away from players and jump over pucks. I also appreciate that they have absolutely no hustle at all when a fight breaks out. They let the men sort things out with their fists until it gets dangerous.

7) Surprisingly easy to follow, even for someone who doesn't know anything about the sport. Were there some penalties and rules that I didn't understand? Yes. However the mode of 'Puck goes in net, team gets point' makes the game very easy for newbies to follow.

8) The arena is refreshingly cool. I hate being hot at a sports event, so having a nice cool environment was lovely!

9) It's an amazing sport to observe from above, there's not a bad seat in the house. We were pretty far removed from the ice, but it didn't matter at all. With the bright white ice and a black puck, it was super easy to follow the game, I am sure that it's really cool to see up close, but I loved my bird's eye perspective which allowed me to take in everything at once.

10) Momentum can shift insanely fast. At one point, we were celebrating a goal scored by the Mammoth. Literally 5 seconds later the Blues answered with a goal of their own. No lead ever feels safe, and that's great as a fan!

As I said, that was my first ever hockey game. However, after that experience, it most definitely will not be my last.

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@Jabs_13 They came out in 2010. I paid for 18 of those f***er’s!

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@stephenasmith @AlabamaFTBL @SEC Notre Dame!!

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@CharlieBerens Happy New Year!!🎊 🎈

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

Your “guess” is? Maybe they did get better. I don’t know. But, if those job increases went to teachers it improved student to teacher ratio.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

LA public schools lost 26% of their students since 2014, but they increased staffing by 19%.

That is insane.

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@ReichlinMelnick @Martina “Sufficient evidence” Liken it to overturning a touchdown call on the field with video replay.

[John Spellman @fjspellman]

@adamscochran @RayBake @FBIDirectorKash Of course you’re assuming kash actually read the files.