Ep. 831: Facing Avalanches on Mt. Everest...Twice - Revisited - Alex Staniforth
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired on March 10, 2016
As a young boy, Alex Staniforth dealt with epilepsy and has 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 and caution. 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 | Hey, folks, my name is Mason. Welcome to the podcast. Today we are talking to Alex |
| 0:27.5 | Stanoforth, who back in 2014 and 2015 was climbing Everest. And yeah, it's crazy. If you |
| 0:36.8 | know anything about Everest, those were two years there were some |
| 0:39.0 | pretty serious avalanches uh so at 18 years old Alex tried this and by the way this episode from |
| 0:45.2 | 2016 Travis was hosting this episode and so he's going to tell us about Alex is going to tell us |
| 0:50.9 | about his experience on Everest dealing with avalanches twice in the book that he wrote thereafter. |
| 0:57.8 | So pretty wild story. Alex dealt with epilepsy as a child and has a stammer as a result of it. |
| 1:04.7 | And so like many kids, he had to deal with a lot of bullying and just really tough stuff that I know a lot of us have dealt with as well. |
| 1:12.4 | And so just seeing what he's done since and how he's overcome it and how he's done things |
| 1:17.4 | like climbing Everest is pretty inspiring. So buckle up, get ready to be inspired. Let's go ahead and jump in. |
| 1:37.6 | Alex, welcome to the show. |
| 1:38.6 | Hi, Travis. |
| 1:39.1 | How's it good. |
| 1:40.4 | That's going great. |
| 1:42.1 | I thank you for your time and being here. |
| 1:46.2 | So let's start with a little bit of history on yourself. I mean, you're a young guy. You're 20 now. And you were, you were trying to make these |
| 1:52.0 | attempts as a teenager. That's pretty young to try something like Everest. What is it in your |
| 1:58.1 | childhood that drove you so early to try something like Everest? |
| 2:04.0 | How was your upbringing? |
| 2:05.1 | Were you an adventurous kid from the start? |
| 2:08.7 | Yeah, I'm basically, you know, I wasn't adventurous. |
| 2:11.4 | I hated sport. |
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