Victor Vescovo

It was so not good that every team except one other chose not to go up that night.

But we had a really strong team.

And we thought, no, we could do it and there'll be no lines.

So we traded one risk for another.

It was very cold, very windy, stormy, but we didn't have anyone in front of us.

Well, we only had one group.

And we were able to keep moving.

And we were able to summit.

But when we got to the summit, we could only see about 100, 200 meters.

But we definitely were on the summit.

And then very rapidly, after 15 minutes on the summit, we came down because it was very dangerous.

But it's just a physical and mental beatdown, climbing Everest.

It takes two months.

Yeah, that's the whole evolution.

Because you climb up to get acclimatized, you come down.

You climb up even further and you come down again.

And the whole time, you know, you're sick, you're losing weight.

You can't eat enough to keep your body weight up because you're just burning so many calories and your body can't digest food.

So it's a beat down.

29,028 feet.