Sean Swarner
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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how it came about was looking at literally, like I said, the highest platform in the world.
And I wanted to use that to help other survivors believe in themselves and share this perspective with them.
And something else that happens a lot still, which is insane, and I never believed it before, but chemo brain is a real thing, and I completely forgot what the question was.
There's an amazing parallel between going through cancer and climbing Everest, for example, any of the big mountains.
A lot of people don't realize that when you're climbing Everest, you don't show up at base camp and then slowly work your way up the mountain.
It takes four weeks.
You establish different camps.
Because if we went from where you are, where I am now, and could all of a sudden magically show up at the top of Mount Everest, we would be dead within 5-10 minutes.
Because of the lack of oxygen.
Our minds would suffer cerebral edema, our bodies would suffer pulmonary edema, and we would literally just fall apart, fall asleep, and die.
So we would go up the mountain to, say, Camp 1, and then we'd come back down to base camp and we would rest.
Day, two days, three days, whatever.
And what that does is you go up with a full backpack, you shuttle stuff up there, come back down with an empty backpack, and you're shuttling things up the mountain.
But for your body, it's actually manufacturing more red blood cells and hemoglobin to be more efficient in altitude.
Very similarly to going through the chemo treatments, I couldn't go in and a patient couldn't go in and get...
treatment after treatment after treatment because the medicine alone would destroy the body so you have to have some time off so there there are a lot of similarities and one of the things that that is is also very interesting is when you reach the summit like when i reached the top of everest i looked around and it was amazing i i broke down in tears because i was so emotional
But the instant I realized I had made it up there, I made history, I looked around and I thought to myself, I have to go back down.
So it's very similar in the fact that when you go through chemo, when you're going on this cancer journey, when you get into remission, you still have a few more treatments left.
You still have to get back down.
So the reason I chose adventuring, the reason I chose Everest was...
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