Brian Dickinson - Surviving Mount Everest
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Episode 570
Brian Dickinson is an author, speaker and adventurer. In May of 2011, he soloed the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain the world. On his descent, Brian became snow blind with his vision not returning for over a month.
He depicted the story in his book "Blind Descent" released in 2014. Brian holds the record for the highest solo blind descent and has climbed each of the seven summits, the highest peaks of all seven continents.
Brian spent six years in the United States Navy as a Special Operations Air Rescue Swimmer and did two tours in the Gulf as part of Operation Southern Watch. He's been featured on CNN, Good Morning America, the Huffington Post, the 700 Club and more.
On today's show, Brian tells the incredible story of climbing Mount Everest, becoming snow blind on his way down the mountain and shares in great detail the emotional connection with God he made in his darkest moment on the descent.
Follow Brian on Twitter: @BrianCDickinson
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.4 | What's up, guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. My name is |
| 0:23.4 | Jason Romano, and we appreciate you tuning in and checking us out today. We got a great show with |
| 0:29.2 | Brian Dickinson, one of the craziest stories you will ever hear. I mean, it's a made for TV, |
| 0:34.3 | made for a movie type of story from Brian Dickinson, and we'll tell that story in |
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