Ep. 267: The 7 Summits & Mt. Vinson Massif - Part 2 - Tom Fabbri
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Tom Fabbri is on the show today to tell us about his progress in his attempt to climb the 7 Summits as well as his experiences from Mt. Vinson. Tom is a world class adventurer who is on a journey to complete the Adventure Grand Slam, summiting the tallest peaks on each of the seven continents and skiing to the North and South Poles. In one year, he climbed four of these peaks in his quest to fulfill this dream – Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mt. Elbrus in Russia, Mt. Kosciuszko in Australia, and Aconcagua in Argentina. His most recent climb took him to Mt. McKinley in Alaska where he summited on July 5, 2013. With two climbs left, Vinson Massif in Antarctica and Mt. Everest and skiing the poles, Tom is well on his way to becoming part of an elite group of mountaineers as he successfully completes this challenge.
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| 0:00.0 | First thing I did was I took out my sat phone, called my wife, and I called her, and I couldn't talk. |
| 0:09.0 | She's like, is that you? Is that you? You know? And I couldn't talk. I was just so, I was speechless. I really was. |
| 0:16.2 | And we talked for a few minutes, you know, after I finally could get the words out. |
| 0:23.1 | And, you know, I was like, we did it. We did it. |
| 0:30.9 | Episode 267, part two of the Tom Fabry discussion about Mount Vincent Massif and the Seven Summets. You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:36.8 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:40.9 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:45.3 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. Well, let's go to Mount McKinley now. |
| 0:57.3 | Donali. |
| 0:58.3 | Donali is an amazing peak. |
| 1:00.5 | You know, it's so far north. |
| 1:03.4 | I think that's what makes this one so unique. |
| 1:05.9 | That and also how tall it is compared to the surrounding base elevation? |
| 1:11.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:12.9 | It's actually a larger mountain than Everest. |
| 1:19.3 | And most people don't know that. |
| 1:21.6 | Everest is higher, obviously, in elevation. |
| 1:25.5 | Everest starts at around 17,500 feet and goes up to 29,035 feet. |
| 1:33.8 | So if you do the map there, it's really not that big. |
| 1:37.2 | McKinley or Denali, as it's renamed now, starts at around 7,500 feet somewhere around there and goes up to 20,320 feet. So it's actually a |
| 1:53.5 | bigger mountain and also it's at a more northern latitude. So you get some horrific weather. You get |
| 2:00.0 | some unbelievable snowstorms there. |
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