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Devon Lévesque

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513 total appearances

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And he turns it back. The problem was when you go to level three, you start to get relaxed. Because you're like, ah, I got a little bit of oxygen. Right. But the problem when you get relaxed and you're that tired is you fall asleep. When you fall asleep at negative 20 degrees, you freeze. And that's what happened. That's what happened to the two Mongolians before us. They froze on the line. Wow.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And he turns it back. The problem was when you go to level three, you start to get relaxed. Because you're like, ah, I got a little bit of oxygen. Right. But the problem when you get relaxed and you're that tired is you fall asleep. When you fall asleep at negative 20 degrees, you freeze. And that's what happened. That's what happened to the two Mongolians before us. They froze on the line. Wow.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

It was in the news. That was the day before us. That was the day before you. Right. The day before us. Wow. And then, so the guy woke me up. How do they get the bodies down from there? They just leave them? Oh, you can't. They're just there.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

It was in the news. That was the day before us. That was the day before you. Right. The day before us. Wow. And then, so the guy woke me up. How do they get the bodies down from there? They just leave them? Oh, you can't. They're just there.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

It was in the news. That was the day before us. That was the day before you. Right. The day before us. Wow. And then, so the guy woke me up. How do they get the bodies down from there? They just leave them? Oh, you can't. They're just there.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

There was multiple. And, you know, these bodies, man, they're wax figures. They look like wax characters. They look perfectly preserved. Sometimes their eyes were open. There was a guy, his eyes were open. He had a blue black diamond helmet on. He had a red North Face onesie on, you know, the... Man, and he was just there. And it looked like he was alive.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

There was multiple. And, you know, these bodies, man, they're wax figures. They look like wax characters. They look perfectly preserved. Sometimes their eyes were open. There was a guy, his eyes were open. He had a blue black diamond helmet on. He had a red North Face onesie on, you know, the... Man, and he was just there. And it looked like he was alive.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

There was multiple. And, you know, these bodies, man, they're wax figures. They look like wax characters. They look perfectly preserved. Sometimes their eyes were open. There was a guy, his eyes were open. He had a blue black diamond helmet on. He had a red North Face onesie on, you know, the... Man, and he was just there. And it looked like he was alive.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And I'm looking at him like, man, this is someone's brother. This is someone's maybe father. This is a child of someone. Like this is wild. Multiple, multiple people. So then we proceed past these bodies. It's starting to get scary. You're approaching 29,000, 32 feet. Get to the top. You could hear a pin drop at the top. Perfect weather, rain.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And I'm looking at him like, man, this is someone's brother. This is someone's maybe father. This is a child of someone. Like this is wild. Multiple, multiple people. So then we proceed past these bodies. It's starting to get scary. You're approaching 29,000, 32 feet. Get to the top. You could hear a pin drop at the top. Perfect weather, rain.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And I'm looking at him like, man, this is someone's brother. This is someone's maybe father. This is a child of someone. Like this is wild. Multiple, multiple people. So then we proceed past these bodies. It's starting to get scary. You're approaching 29,000, 32 feet. Get to the top. You could hear a pin drop at the top. Perfect weather, rain.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

perfect blue skies get to the summit 505 i had a little extra energy because i took that mini 60 second nap did a little backflip on the top which is really fun and proceeded down up there for about 30 to 45 minutes so you stayed right at the summit for 30 to 45 minutes all the flags stuck in there and like man when you stand on top of the world and you just look around

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

perfect blue skies get to the summit 505 i had a little extra energy because i took that mini 60 second nap did a little backflip on the top which is really fun and proceeded down up there for about 30 to 45 minutes so you stayed right at the summit for 30 to 45 minutes all the flags stuck in there and like man when you stand on top of the world and you just look around

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

perfect blue skies get to the summit 505 i had a little extra energy because i took that mini 60 second nap did a little backflip on the top which is really fun and proceeded down up there for about 30 to 45 minutes so you stayed right at the summit for 30 to 45 minutes all the flags stuck in there and like man when you stand on top of the world and you just look around

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And you're like, man, I'm on the tallest point on earth. There's no one higher than me right now. I mean, it's giving me the chills thinking about it. It's so next level. It's a feeling of this crazy energy of just, okay, I did it, but I didn't do it. I got to get down now. Yeah. And that's the hardest part, man. That's the scariest part. I go down. Why is that?

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And you're like, man, I'm on the tallest point on earth. There's no one higher than me right now. I mean, it's giving me the chills thinking about it. It's so next level. It's a feeling of this crazy energy of just, okay, I did it, but I didn't do it. I got to get down now. Yeah. And that's the hardest part, man. That's the scariest part. I go down. Why is that?

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living

And you're like, man, I'm on the tallest point on earth. There's no one higher than me right now. I mean, it's giving me the chills thinking about it. It's so next level. It's a feeling of this crazy energy of just, okay, I did it, but I didn't do it. I got to get down now. Yeah. And that's the hardest part, man. That's the scariest part. I go down. Why is that?