Ep. 227: Mountaineering and the 7 Summits Holiday Flashback - Al Hancock
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2016
⏱️ 61 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. Happy Holidays!
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| 0:00.0 | In 2007, I arrived on the summit of Everest. |
| 0:03.1 | For the first 10 or 15 minutes, I was all alone. |
| 0:07.5 | As far as the naked eye could see into Tibet and China, I could see. |
| 0:12.2 | As far as the naked I could see into Nepal and India, I could see as well. |
| 0:17.8 | And someone said, you know, wasn't that emotional for you? |
| 0:21.4 | And I go, if you go take it away my glasses, you would have seen frozen teardrops. |
| 0:26.9 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:31.2 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:35.7 | Holiday Flashback Episode 227, climbing the Seven Summits with Al Hancock. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey guys, it's Travis. Kurt and I will be taking some time off over the holidays to spend with our |
| 0:58.8 | families. So over the next few weeks, you'll be hearing some of our holiday flashbacks. These are |
| 1:03.0 | our favorite episodes over the past year and a half, I guess. We'll be posting them on Mondays |
| 1:08.4 | and Thursdays as usual. So keep tuning in, and I'm sure there'll be a few of those that you haven't heard yourself. |
| 1:14.1 | So I want you guys to have a safe and happy holidays, and we'll see you after the new year. |
| 1:21.5 | Welcome back to another Adventure Sports podcast episode. |
| 1:24.2 | This is your host, Travis. |
| 1:25.8 | I've got a good one for you guys today. I've got Al Hancock on the |
| 1:29.7 | line. I ran across Al when I was talking to Mike Fenner. And Mike, if you remember, did the, |
| 1:37.8 | he wrote the Crossing Denali book. And we did an interview and episode with him a little bit while |
| 1:43.0 | back. And Al was one of Mike's teammates. |
| 1:47.7 | And I got to talking to Al. |
| 1:48.9 | And Al has some amazing things going on. |
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