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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 166: Mountaineering and the 7 Summits with Al Hancock

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6580 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Al Hancock talks about mountaineering, summiting the highest peak on each of the 7 continents and his Big 14 Challenge project where he's working on becoming the first Canadian to climb the 14 tallest peaks in the world. Listen in to hear about it!

 

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0:00.0

You know, in 2007, I arrived on the summit of Everest.

0:04.0

For the first 10 or 15 minutes, I was all alone.

0:08.3

As far as the naked eye could see into Tibet and China, I could see.

0:13.1

As far as the naked I could see into Nepal and India, I could see as well.

0:18.7

And someone said, you know, wasn't that emotional for you?

0:22.3

And I go, if you've got to take it away my glasses, you would have seen frozen teardrops.

0:50.4

I'm going to see frozen teardrops. This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180 tack.

0:52.2

Get out there and have some fun.

0:59.5

Episode 166, Mountaineering in the Seven Summits with Al Hancock.

1:12.9

Welcome back to another Adventure Sports podcast episode.

1:14.2

This is your host, Travis.

1:16.7

I've got a good one for you guys today.

1:18.9

I've got Al Hancock on the line.

1:22.7

I ran across Al when I was talking to Mike Fenner. And Mike, if you remember, did the, he wrote the Crossing Denali book and we did an interview

1:30.2

an episode with him a little bit while back.

1:32.2

And Al was one of, one of Mike's teammates.

1:36.5

And I got to talking to Al and Al has some amazing things going on.

1:41.0

He has completed the seven summits, which is the seven highest mountains or the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.

1:49.2

And he's currently working on the Big 14, which is the 14 highest peaks in the world.

1:56.2

And, you know, this guy's got some amazing stories.

1:58.9

I've been reading through his journals on his site, and I encourage you guys to go visit

2:04.6

Al Hancock.com and check it out while you're listening to this show, because Al's got

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