Michael Kosta
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I'm serious.
And one of the things I loved about this story was you kept being faced with more no's, with more you can't do that, the helicopter won't take you, and you just kept figuring out a way to do it.
Not only that, you had a heart transplant.
I mean, you still hold the record for the highest elevation that a person's been at with a heart transplant at 20,000 feet, 22,000 feet.
22,000 feet.
I mean, you went... Yeah, meanwhile, this doctor's like, hey, can you not, you know... Meanwhile, you went on six more expeditions with this heart.
Nine now.
Nine now.
Uh...
I don't mean to be crude, but, you know, it feels like you were willing to die for this work.
77 years old.
Right.
But my heart is 34.
That's great.
Yeah.
I mean, we live in an amazing time in human history that this is possible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's talk about where you're from.
You're from West Virginia.