Adventures of a Hemophiliac: Chris Bombardier on Climbing Mount Everest

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Wilderness, Bike, Gear, Snowboard, Outdoor, Sports, Ski, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On January 6, 2018, Chris Bombardier became the first person with hemophilia to complete all Seven Summits, and tomorrow, a film comes out called Bombardier Blood that tells Chris’ story and homes in on his attempt to summit Mt. Everest.

Chris is also now the executive director of the organization, Save One Life, whose mission is to improve the quality of life and future for people with bleeding disorders in developing countries.

So in this conversation you’ll be introduced to a wonderful guy named Chris; you’ll learn more about hemophilia and better understand the experience of those who have the condition; you’ll learn more about the work of Save One Life; and then tomorrow, you’ll get to go watch Bombardier Blood and be introduced to “Crazy Uncle Dave” and a number of other wonderful people.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

Baseball, sharks, & growing up w/ hemophilia (3:00)
What exactly is Hemophilia? (7:28)
Playing baseball, dealing w/ injuries? (16:00)
The importance of “Factor” (22:40)
The film, Bombardier Blood (29:22)
The Seven Summits (32:42)
Attempting Everest (36:28)
Hemophilia & Everest (46:15)
Save One Life (49:51)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister,
0:07.0	and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing, plus all of our other podcasts,
0:13.0	over at Blisterreview.com.
0:16.0	Today, our guest is Chris Bombadier, who is a remarkable guy in a number of ways.
0:22.5	On January 6, 2018, Chris became the first person with hemophilia to complete all seven
0:30.2	summits.
0:31.6	And then tomorrow, August 18th, a film comes out that tells Chris's story and focuses in on his attempt to summit Mount Everest.
0:41.2	The film is called Bombatier Blood, and to call the film inspiring is an understatement, for
0:48.2	sure. And these days, Chris is the executive director of the organization Save One Life, whose mission is to
0:56.3	improve the quality of life and future for people with bleeding disorders in developing
1:01.7	countries. And so, right now in this conversation, you get to be introduced to a wonderful
1:08.3	guy named Chris. You get to learn more about hemophilia and
1:12.8	better understand the experience of those who had the condition. You get to learn more about
1:18.0	the work of Save One Life. And then tomorrow, you get to go watch Bombatier Blood and get
1:24.6	introduced to Crazy Uncle Dave. Shout out to Crazy Uncle Dave, by the way,
1:29.7	and a whole slew of other wonderful people. And so for all of these reasons, I am very happy to
1:36.4	now be able to share this conversation with you. And so with that, let's go ahead and get to my
1:41.9	conversation with Chris Bombadier.
1:48.1	Well, Chris, how are you today and where are you today?
1:53.7	Doing well today, and I'm currently in Salem, Massachusetts, where I live now,
1:58.3	which is a pretty cool little town.
2:00.1	Nice.
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