Ep. 147: Mt. Everest Avalanches and Overcoming Adversity with Alex Staniforth
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As a young boy, Alex Staniforth dealt with epilepsy and a stammer as a result of it. Like many kids, he was picked on and bullied in school severely damaging his self confidence. Amazingly Alex managed to overcome his confidence issues when he discovered a new world of adventure and the feeling of accomplishment. At just 18 years old, he made his first attempt to summit Mt Everest. His story of being turned around by an avalanche in 2014 only to return in 2015 and be caught in the deadliest Everest avalanche on record is one of astonishment, yet it inspires the even the most adventurous of us all. Listen in to this incredible account and pick up his new book "IceFall" to read the whole story for yourself. This is one you don't want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | And then the air pressure suddenly changes and it just hits me with this whack. And like in like a millisecond, I just, for the first time in my life, accepted, this is it, this is how I die. You know, it's all over. And the most sickening feeling of pure fear. I mean, I'm not prepared for it. It was just the most surreal shot feeling of pure fear like I can never describe. I mean, it all happens so fast. I mean, |
| 0:23.8 | I'm just engulfed by this thing. And I guess any second I just expect it to go black, I expect, |
| 0:28.5 | you know, I'm just going to be so like you buried and that's it. You know, I'm never going to see |
| 0:32.6 | my family again. And I just expect it's going to go black and I'm going to be left up here forever. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. and I just expect it's going to go black and I'm going to be left up here forever. This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
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| 1:07.9 | Adventure Sports podcast, Episode 147, |
| 1:12.9 | overcoming childhood adversity by climbing Mount Everest with Alex Stanoforth. |
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| 1:54.4 | Now imagine you're 18 years old and your biggest dream is to conquer Mount Everest. |
| 1:58.6 | After all of the months of planning, preparation, and fundraising, |
| 2:01.2 | you end up being turned around by one of the worst avalanches in Everest history. My next guest is |
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