But what if you can eliminate that personal price, by doing things only few know?
We know reaching the top means great personal sacrifice. But if cold death, and even bodies of fallen climbers, are staring at us in the face, would we still think we made the right choices?
I’m back here with Eddie Taylor, who is a chemistry teacher turned Patagonia athlete and mountain climber of Denali, Aconcagua and Mount Everest. When most climbers summit with five tanks of oxygen, Eddie only used two.
We talked about training for Everest. Which, as it turns out, has little do with strength, power, mindset, and even height.
Previously: “We had to raise about a million (for Everest)…”
In this episode:
Training for an elevation that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world.
“There's people who take 16, 17, 18 hours to go through the icefall.”
Rip marks on the jacket of a fallen climber.
“The third day, I felt like garbage.”
Everest in the dark: The 2 AM discovery.
What The Balcony at the top of the world is like.
“I could see … Forever.”
