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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. 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. 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. Kamlers day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. Hes done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

In the late 1960s, at the height of his popularity, Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson began work on an ambitious album called Smile. Almost four decades later, the album is ready for release. Bob Boilen sits in on the Smile recording sessions.

WUKY listeners are well acquainted with Samantha Lederman, our award-winning equine reporter. You haven’t heard much from her lately because she moved back to England more than a year ago. Samantha sent this report on a nation now in the midst of mourning the loss of their beloved Queen Elizabeth II.

Lexington’s Division of Environmental Services is issuing a challenge to residents: go see trees. WUKY's Alan Lytle has details.

The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning has announced the 2023 class of the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

Police in Stockton, Calif., say they've made an arrest in connection with a series of shootings, six of them fatal, that began last year.

The University of Kentucky is celebrating the official unveiling of Alumni Commons, a portion of Rose Street that’s been transformed from a heavy traffic corridor into a five-acre park and meeting area primed for outdoor classes, get-togethers, and other university events.

Across six locations in Indonesia, NPR spoke with locals about how nickel mining is changing the land and daily life. It's brought jobs, but also concerns about environmental damage and public health.

As conservative advocacy groups ike Americans for Prosperity shuffle their ad dollars, they are focusing on key swing states like Colorado. Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips says states like Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico "haven't seen the results from the president's policies."

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore, Asbury Park is still waiting for insurance and federal aid money. In the meantime, it borrowed $10 million to repair the waterfront in time for the critical Memorial Day weekend.