Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with producer Jason

DeFilippo. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of

the world's most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical

advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Today we get my

friend David Roskey. He's the fourth person ever to successfully climb Everest and another

8,000 meter peak without oxygen in the same season. So I don't know why and I ask him

on the show why he does this white climbs without oxygen is if climbing is not hard enough.

Basically one day in 2007, he goes, I'm going to get my health in order. Now he's a mountain

here, alpinus pilot, runner, summited Everest twice, other mountain names I can't even

pronounce, broad peak, no bottled oxygen, no bottled oxygen. This is a guy also, oh by the

way, plant-powered. So it's just for me kind of unbelievable to be doing all the, like

why are you making this stuff even harder than it already is. He's obviously a guy who

likes to try things out of his league. He's been attempting things out of his league for

a while. He's something about the sting of failure with this guy, you know, and he's

got this story about himself that he's doggedly determined. He's just going to put his head

down. I met him because he was at a party and I was in charge of the door and I tell the

story in the beginning of the show. I was in charge of the door. He basically sprinted

up multiple flights of stairs in a New York walk up and I just thought how it seemed impossible

to me that he could have gotten up that quickly. He wasn't even sweating or breathing hard.

Sounds like meth to me. Yeah, yeah. He just doesn't, he looks the mountain near part more

so than the meth part. He has his team then. He does. Yes. And his focus, his hard work.

I mean, he's also like a hedge fund manager. So he's, it's really incredible what this

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