Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Bitter.

And today I have a guest interview episode for you.

Today's guest is Carl Egluff.

Carl is an extreme explorer, adventure seeker.

I mean, you could probably name him a few different things at this point.

He has taken a big interest into chasing FKTs,

or what we call fastest known times.

And essentially what those are are routes

that are sometimes difficult or impossible

to have a race placed there,

or just very popular routes that people like to go to and the fkaties or fastest known times

are just documentation of how you've done it from a speed standpoint relative to others and he's taken

on some of the most dangerous iconic ones and has claimed them as the fastest known person to have accomplished them.

They include efforts on areas like Denali, Elbris, Akanagua, Kilimanjaro, Makaloo.

We talk about these attempts, some of the long ones, the short ones, how he kind of structures his training.

We talk a bit about his

background and how you even get into being able to do stuff like this. And he is actually a mountain

guide, which has put him in a pretty unique position to be able to plan, navigate, and

manage the logistics for these type of projects. We talk about cross-training, is training

in general, what recon looks like when you're doing a project like this, what his interest

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