EFR 045: Step Out, Shove Off and Face the Unknown with Laval St. Germain
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5.0 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Climbing the highest mountains, rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, coming face-to-face with death and even losing several fingers to pursue his life's mission - STEP OUT, SHOVE OFF! Laval St. Germain shares with us what it is like to pursue adventure in a myriad of different ways and the obstacles that life (and Mother Nature) has in store during that process.
In this episode you will learn from an "expert at turning dreams into goals into reality, Laval St.Germain knows what it takes to unzip the tent door and step out from high camp on Everest for a cold, gasping, trip to the top or to shove off the dock to row alone across the North Atlantic Ocean.
Laval is the only Canadian to have climbed Mount Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen, the only person to have climbed and skied Iraq's highest peak, and the holder of the fastest ever crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean by solo ocean row boat from mainland North America to mainland Europe.
Laval has climbed the highest peak on 6 of the earth's 7 continents, and the highest peaks of more than a dozen nations. Uniquely blending extreme high risk outdoor adventure with the deliberate and strict adherence to procedures, checklists and risk management inherent in an airline pilot has kept Laval alive.
Laval is an acclaimed keynote speaker, with emotional and striking stories from up there above the clouds and out there beyond the ocean horizon."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:04.0 | I am your host, Chase Tuning. |
| 0:06.3 | And this is your weekly source for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose to their passion and truly living a life ever forward. |
| 0:16.1 | This is Ever Forward Radio. |
| 0:20.7 | Uh-huh. is Ever Forward Radio. |
| 0:28.8 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:30.7 | I don't know why I'm doing Matthew McConaughey. |
| 0:33.2 | Anyways, welcome back to the podcast, everybody. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome back to another great episode here on Everford Radio. |
| 0:42.9 | So this week I'm really excited to bring on guest LaValle Saint-Germaine. |
| 0:55.9 | He is someone that is a little bit different from the normal guest that I've had on as far as being a author, exercise scientist, doctor, fitness, wellness, social media, entrepreneur, kind of all the above. |
| 1:01.0 | This guy is someone who actually reached out to me after finding the podcast and just connecting with the message, you know, what it's like to live a life ever forward. |
| 1:05.5 | LaValle and I are going to dive into his adventures all over the world. |
| 1:09.3 | This guy is incredible. He is a mountaineer, an endurance athlete, |
| 1:14.3 | an ocean rower, airline pilot, public speaker. He has climbed Mount Everest. In fact, he's the only |
| 1:21.4 | Canadian to summit Everest without oxygen. And in doing so, he actually came across some pretty, pretty intense stuff. He |
| 1:30.5 | wound up losing a couple of fingers. He found some unfortunate climbers who didn't quite make it |
| 1:37.2 | to the top on bouts before. And he talks about what it's like to come face to face with death, |
| 1:42.6 | to come face to face with really, to come face to face with really |
| 1:45.1 | accepting his own mortality and being okay with what if I don't come back from this adventure. |
| 1:52.0 | And what it's like to push through that, what it's like to persevere through some of the |
| 1:56.5 | most intense obstacles I think that the world, certainly Nature, can throw at us. And he doesn't |
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