Ep 56: Part 2 - Blind Decent on Everest

Keep Your Daydream

Marc Leach

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5 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Former Navy rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest when his Sherpa became ill and had to turn back, leaving Brian with a difficult decision: should he continue to push for the summit, or head back down the mountain?

In this episode (Part 2) Brian tells an incredible story of being alone at 29,035 feet, low on oxygen, and stricken with snow blindness. Brian was forced to inch his way back down the mountain relying only on his Navy survival training, his gut instinct and his faith.

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0:00.0	Very important just to take a step back every once in a while and assess the situation and reprioritize what truly is important to you and are you focusing on the wrong things.
0:14.4	You're listening to Keep Your Daydream podcast, episode 56.
0:20.7	Part 2, Blind Descent with Brian Dickinson.
0:31.5	Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave normal, travel the world, or
0:35.8	follow your dream?
0:36.9	How about sail the ocean? Live in a
0:38.7	different country every year or serve your life's purpose through a mission trip. My name is
0:43.8	Tricia Leach and those are the stories you're about to hear and so much more. Welcome to your favorite
0:48.7	podcast, inspired by dreams and made for adventure. This is Keep Your Daydream. Welcome back to part two of Brian Dickinson's Everest story. If you're just joining us, go back to Part 1 and learn about Brian's preparation for
1:14.4	climbing the highest mountain in the world.
1:17.0	And if you did hear Part 1, then you know I left you hanging right when Brian summited
1:22.4	Everest and made it obvious that something was about to go wrong.
1:27.2	So without any more waiting, let's dive right back where we left off.
1:31.3	Okay, so this is the setup because obviously something happened.
1:44.9	You're up there, you've made your call, you're going down alone.
1:49.6	So what happened?
1:52.9	So yeah, I made the radio call.
1:56.0	I took my highest selfie in the world.
1:59.9	And just kind of spun around and just took pictures of the surrounding just to take it in because it was so hard to just process at that moment.
2:08.6	You know, it's such a small time, you know, less than an hour that you spend up there after, you know, taking a month plus to get there.
2:16.6	Yes.
2:20.8	It's a mountaineering, an amazing thing.
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