Sean Swarner

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446 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 27 Feb

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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · The Man Who Died Twice, Then Climbed Everest | Sean Swarner · 27 Feb 2026 podcast

They told me that I was sick and that they were going to do everything they possibly could to get me better.

So in my mind, I wasn't fighting for my life.

In my mind, I just had a cold or a flu or something like that.

Yes, eventually I found out it was cancer, but because I wasn't in this world,

state of being terrified of what was happening to me, I took it as it came by, you know, one day at a time.

And I was just sick.

I wasn't fighting for my life.

So I think that helped because I took that into the second cancer.

And that's when I said that the doctor gave me, he was redeeming my last rites.

And I remember the hospital wanted me to

right out of living will.

And I'm joking with my parents.

I'm like, well, you know, I have a younger brother.

Isn't my brother going to get my hand-me-downs anyhow?

Like what could the hospital possibly want?

So then fast forward into about 10 years later, that's what you probably want to talk about is the whole concept and idea of pushing limits and achieving what no one in history has ever done before.

And I became the first cancer survivor to summit Mount Everest.

And to answer it in as succinctly as possible, when I was going through the treatments, I didn't think I had much hope.

And a lot of people need to see that hope.

They need to be impacted and believe something is possible before they can do it themselves.

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