Ep. 984: Climbing Everest From Sea Level - Michael Neal
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Bicycle touring to Everest: Michael's high-stakes journey biking from the Indian Ocean to Lukla, Nepal with Bryan Hill as a personal challenge before joining Lonnie Bedwell's Sightless Summit team to guide the Everest ascent.
Michael describes himself as a professional goofer-offer, climber who loves bike touring and a friend to everyone.
If you listened to last week’s episode with Lonnie Bedwell, you’ll enjoy this episode with Michael, one of Lonnie’s guides on the Everest summit. To add some personal challenge to the Sightless Summit team, Michael and Bryan Hill bicycled from the Indian Ocean to the high altitude village of Lukla, Nepal where they met the rest of the team and climbed Everest.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, if you remember last week, we talked to Lonnie Bedwell about climbing Mount Everest, and he mentioned his team. |
| 0:29.5 | Well, we were able to sit down and talk with one of his guides, Michael Neal, not long after we interviewed him, just to hear the experience, Michael and Brian Hill, |
| 0:41.3 | who helped to get Lonnie to the summit of Everest, had their own adventure before climbing |
| 0:48.2 | Everest, which was biking, trying to set a world record for the fastest known time from sea level to the top of Mount Everest. |
| 0:56.7 | And they started in the Indian Ocean and did almost 800 miles of riding from sea level to |
| 1:04.8 | high alpine mountain town before trekking up to Everest base camp and continuing to the summit of |
| 1:12.6 | Everest. So this is part of that story from Michael's perspective. It was just sounds awesome, |
| 1:17.5 | sounds so unique, especially for an Everest attempt and Everest climbed. And this is the second |
| 1:23.3 | time Michael's climbed Everest. So pretty special story, really cool interview, kind of a classic |
| 1:28.6 | adventure sports podcast story, but it's connected to last week. So if you haven't already, |
| 1:34.0 | listen to Lonnie's story. It is amazing. He's the first blind U.S. veteran to climb |
| 1:41.7 | Everest. So that's what makes that so special. So give that a |
| 1:45.3 | listen. You're going to be inspired. And Michael was incredibly inspired to be a part of it. And he's |
| 1:50.3 | got tons and tons of stories in his own right. Does so many cool adventures. So it was a pleasure |
| 1:56.3 | to hear from him. All right. Let's go ahead and dive in. |
| 2:12.6 | Michael, Neil, welcome to Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 2:13.3 | How you doing? |
| 2:14.9 | I'm doing great, man. |
| 2:15.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 2:16.8 | Oh, yeah, this is awesome. |
| 2:34.4 | So, you know, you've got a lot we could talk about. We're going to focus on one of your adventures. But before we do, as tradition of the show, where are you coming from today? And is that home? Yeah, I live in Oregon. I live on a lake near Bend, Oregon called Lake Billy Chinat. Are you from there? |
| 2:35.4 | Have you been there a while if you're not from there? |
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