Veteran turned Everest Climber with Dom Mullins

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In May of 2022, a group of 11 climbers became the first all-Black expedition to summit Mount Everest. The team was called Full Circle Everest, and their climb was written about by journalists all over the world. Full Circle was made up of outdoor experts, climbers, teachers, skiers, and snowboarders. There was also one US Army veteran on the expedition, Demond Mullins.

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0:00.0	In May of 2022, a group of 11 climbers became the first all-black expedition to summit Mount Everest.
0:10.0	The team was called Full Circle Everest, and their climb was written about by journalists all over the world.
0:17.0	Full Circle was made up of outdoor experts, climbers, teachers, skiers, and snowboarders.
0:23.0	There was also one U.S. Army veteran on the expedition.
0:27.0	Demand Mullens.
0:29.0	In 2004, we didn't understand what the war was.
0:33.0	And so it was basically anything goes at any moment.
0:37.0	And so I had to learn how to cope with that.
0:40.0	The stress of that every day, the unpredictability of it, the sleeplessness, the pain.
0:45.0	And so in a situation like that, what do you try to do is try to control the variables that you can?
0:51.0	That's your body, that's your health, that's your gear, that's your buddies.
0:55.0	Everything else is out of your control, so I feel like the Everest expedition, I approached it in a similar way.
1:06.0	Demand Mullens, who goes by Dom, isn't just a former soldier.
1:10.0	He's also a sociology professor, a dancer, and an avid outdoorsman who's summited Denali and Mount Kilimanjaro.
1:18.0	When Dom isn't on trail runs, lifting weights, and pushing his body to new limits,
1:23.0	he's immersed in the world of academia.
1:26.0	Dom is a PhD in sociology.
1:29.0	In 2015, he conducted an ethnographic study of a group of combat veterans during their summit bit of Denali.
1:36.0	Much of Dom's research over the years has focused on veterans and how nature can help them heal from PTSD,
1:44.0	something Dom experienced when he came back from mentor in Iraq.
1:49.0	I'm Shelby Stenger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studios production.
2:00.0	Dom Mullens, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
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