The following is an operation podcast production alone climbing Mount Everest yeah without oxygen

Yeah, the sun starts to come up and I got to the summit and then I was just alone. This this realization that like literally my brain, my person, my organic figure was the highest point on the planet.

I've come to the highest place on the planet in a very very difficult way the hardest

way I can imagine and there's no place else I can go to get away from myself. This mean, this is you facing at this moment a certain death.

You're this expeditionist, you're climbing,

the gold's tallest mountains,

and now here you are stuck in this kind of like avalanche the snowstorm and oh yeah this is it yeah

you really seem to share how to become good at suffering I think this is one of the problems with so many of these tales, these narratives of our

abuse is that oftentimes we negate how we feed into them.

Diagnosed bipolar 2 when I was 15 so there was this narrative of

brokenness and this idea of I was going to go crazy. In order to escape madness I will

live madly. will live badly. What's up everybody, I'm Corey Richards, author of the color of everything.

I'm here on Everforward Radio. forward radio. My guest today is Corey Richards.

He is an internationally renowned photographer, filmmaker, director, and writer, but above all he is an artist and storyteller who passionately explores the human experience through all mediums.

His work for National Geographic magazine began with adventure features, exploring the most

remote corners of the globe from Antarctica to the Russian Arctic.

And as a professional climber his early career was defined by high-risk

expeditions and leaned on his unique skill set to capture stories that were largely

out of reach to others.

Then in 2011, court became the first and only American

to climb one of the world's 8,000 meter peaks in winter,

summoning Gashibram II in the Cororam, Himalaya of Pakistan, I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly,

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