Erik Weihenmayer – First blind man to summit Mount Everest, Seven Summits, and El Capitan – Kayaked Grand Canyon
Team Never Quit
Marcus Luttrell
4.9 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
What levels have you reached in your life? What have you seen that has changed your perspective? Join Navy SEALs, Marcus Luttrell, David Rutherford, and #TheWizard as they welcome a man that illuminates the ultimate vision of the #neverquitmindset. The Team Never Quit Podcast is honored to welcome Erik Weihenmayer to this week’s show. Erik is one of the greatest climbers in the world…and he’s blind. Listen as Erik shares his greatest #neverquitstory and the unimaginable journey from losing his sight as a young boy to inspiring millions of people around the world with his clear purpose and wisdom. We promise you will see things in a whole new light. #greatstoriesignitelegends Support the show.
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| 0:00.0 | you |
| 0:21.1 | You ever think about quitin' it's the combat of life hammering the snot out of you |
| 0:25.6 | We'll stand by dig in deep and get ready to get fired up with us |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the team never quit podcast the number one podcast that inspires you to fight on |
| 0:37.0 | I'm your host David Rutt Rutherford here with mr. Never quit himself |
| 0:41.9 | Mark has a trail our mission is to help you embrace the suck of life |
| 0:46.2 | To teach you the values of working your ass off and interview the most hard charge and people on planet earth |
| 0:52.0 | We know like this hard. It's time for you to suck it up |
| 0:55.5 | Buttercup and let us teach you to persevere in every environment imaginable |
| 1:00.2 | But Sharon real world lessons learned by those who never quit. That's right |
| 1:06.0 | It's time Marcus for us to help them defeat the |
| 1:10.0 | Army up here ready |
| 1:12.0 | Let's roll |
| 1:21.8 | Marcus I know you have talked about it over and over and over again about that goal of you and your brother at |
| 1:30.8 | 50 are gonna climb Mount Everest. I know well |
| 1:35.9 | It's whoever wins the next bet and |
| 1:38.2 | And but yeah, we got a climb Everest right right? So that's a that's a thing. I'd love to do it too |
| 1:45.1 | But what you got a hell yeah, I'd love to go that'd be awesome, man |
| 1:50.1 | But what you went when you start putting it in a perspective and and Wizard you talked about it before we came on |
| 1:57.2 | The other day where you were saying dude. It's a two-month commitment right just |
| 2:02.3 | At least two months and somewhere around sixty five thousand dollars and there's no guarantee you'll even get a chance to summit |
| 2:09.0 | So plus the what the year maybe two years of prep climbing work |
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