Mark Twight, mountaineer, Part II

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 145 minutes

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In their second conversation on The Adventure Stache, Payson and mountaineer Mark Twight sat down in Mark’s Non Prophet headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah to pick up where they left off in Part I. They discuss Mark’s use of male group dynamics to get major results in his work as a Hollywood trainer on some of the biggest action and superhero movies of the decade, the fear of underachieving, and why Mark is totally fine with the dangers of Everest’s overcrowding problem. Instagram: @the...

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0:00.0	Like you guys, you're willing to trade your life for a bullshit thing.
0:04.7	Like you used oxygen, so you lowered the summit.
0:08.0	It's like, yes, physically, geographically, whatever you're standing,
0:11.6	you may be the guy who gets to stand on top of the highest place in the world.
0:17.6	You wouldn't have gotten there without the ladders, without the ropes,
0:21.2	without people carrying your shit for you, setting up your camp, looking after you, giving you
0:24.8	bed tea, you know, carrying the oxygen bottles, making sure that like all of these things
0:31.3	that allow access are the things that when they break down will kill you. And I don't mind
0:37.1	that happening,
0:38.1	because the mountain should win sometimes.
0:41.7	Like, I think Everest is just like, look,
0:44.2	you guys are trying to run a train.
0:46.7	I'm good with 200, 250, that's a bit too much today.
0:50.7	I'm sorry, I'm going to need a human sacrifice.
0:54.8	It's showtime, everybody.
0:56.9	Showtime!
0:59.6	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
1:03.3	This is the world as it exists today.
1:08.2	Life moves pretty fast.
1:10.6	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
1:13.1	You could miss it.
1:16.2	Listen, we're talking about practice.
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