235: Brian Dickinson | Blind Descent of Everest

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Picture this, you've just reached the Summit of Everest- a pinnacle achievement when you're literally on top of the World… and all of sudden everything goes white... your completely blind. Join us this week as Brian walks us down his "Blind Descent," and tells us what skills learned from his time as a former US Navy Air Rescue Swimmer / Combat Search and Rescue and perhaps a little luck, got him home safe.

LESSONS:

Don't panic
Focus on what needs to be done
Do more
Be who you are
Seek obstacles, don't avoid them

LINKS
http://www.briandickinson.net

TIME STAMPS:

0:00 Dr. L, Col Nye and Johnny Waite introduce Brian

1:20 Interview begins- "always climbing"

2:50 Joe on Aconcagua

4:00 Mental toughness of downtime

5:00 Growing up on a mountain

7:00 Climbing Everest solo with sherpa support

8:45 Acclimatization

10:00 Hiking in the "death zone"

11:15 Completely soloing

13:00 Time standing still on the Summitt

14:30 Descending snow blind

19:05 31 Habits: #8 Intermittent Fasting

21:20 Interview continues: 24 hrs locked in a shipping container at Tahoe

25:00 Navy Training

28:28 Dr.L, Col Nye & Johnny Waite discuss Brian's experience and what we can learn from his Blind Descent

LINKS:

More about Brian http://www.briandickinson.net/

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Hosts: Johnny Waite,Colonel Nye & guest host Dr. L (Joe De Sena was running around Fenway & Sefra Alexandra was on expedition in the South Pacific)

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra

Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We're filming today at Fenway, the Storied Boston Stadium behind us.
0:05.2	We don't have Joe with us today because he's down there helping put this race on.
0:08.6	We also don't have Seth with us today because she is in Fiji doing some important seed work.
0:12.0	We've got Colonel Tim Nye. Roger. she is in Fiji doing some important seed work.
0:12.8	We've got Colonel Tim Nye, we've got Dr Laura Pence,
0:15.8	copy, we've got Johnny Waite.
0:17.6	And you know what we're here today to talk about Brian Dickinson?
0:20.5	His incredible story, climbs Everest, by himself, gets the top completely solo, goes
0:26.5	totally blind.
0:27.5	Yeah, it's an incredible story about what do you do in that moment when it almost feels like there's no options?
0:34.3	You know?
0:35.3	That's awesome.
0:36.3	Well, you didn't have any options to live or die.
0:38.3	You know, I mean, that's it.
0:40.3	He had one.
0:41.3	Yeah, he chose life.
0:42.3	And I don't only give a spoiler here he did
0:43.9	live because we got to talk about and you know what we talked to him like we talked to
0:47.1	so many guests in this podcast every week we have somebody come on here with
0:50.1	an unbelievable story they share with us and we have the opportunity to actually
0:54.0	break it down, talk about it at the end, which we're going to make sure you come back and share
0:57.8	what we got from it and hopefully you'll get a lot from it as well. You know what, this is getting
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