logo
episode-header-image
Sep 2024
2h 10m

Dispatches From The Death Zone: Adrian B...

Rich Roll
About this episode
Adrian Ballinger is an elite mountaineer, a 9-time Everest summiteer, and the founder of Alpenglow Expeditions. This conversation delves into Adrian’s Everest ascents, his “Rapid Ascent” method, views on commercial expeditions, climate change's impact on mountaineering, and fatherhood’s influence on his risk approach. We also discuss the recent controversy ... Show More
Up next
Yesterday
Bryan Johnson & Kate Tolo On Curing Their Incurable Diseases, Addressing The Disparity In Women's Health & The Don't Die Mission
Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo are entrepreneurs, partners, and the subjects of the Netflix documentary "Don't Die." This conversation explores the couple's challenge to a presupposition around our mortality. We discuss AI, consciousness, Kate's endometriosis diagnosis, and our cult ... Show More
1h 56m
Sep 17
If I Can, I Will: William Goodge On Running 50 Marathons In 50 States In 24 Days
William Goodge is a British ultra-endurance athlete who just FKT'd his Australia crossing. In October, he runs 50 marathons in 50 states in 24 days. We get into the logistics, the strange polarity of a life spent between five-star hotels and the side of a trail, and what it's lik ... Show More
1h 51m
Sep 14
Life's A Fight. Don’t Let It Break You: Dolph Lundgren On Trauma, Stardom & Cancer
Dolph Lundgren is an actor, martial artist, and chemical engineer, best known as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. This conversation explores the distance between the man on the poster and the boy underneath: the violent childhood, the Fulbright he traded for Manhattan, the delirium of ins ... Show More
1h 58m
Recommended Episodes
Dec 2020
Climbing The Fourteen Highest Mountains On Earth - Nims Purja MBE - #256
Nims Purja MBE is a mountaineer and former SBS Operative. The fastest anyone had previously climbed the 14 Death Zone mountains greater than 8000m was 8 years. Nims Purja did it in 7 months. Expect to learn what the human body is truly capable of, how purpose can overcome fatigue ... Show More
49m 56s
Aug 2020
Ep. 264: What Is Your Everest? with Samir Patham
This week, Ashdin is joined by one of his closest friends - Samir Patham, Director, Adventure Pulse, and a mountaineer. Samir has climbed Mount Everest (yeah, that's right!), and he talks about that on this episode. They talk about Samir's journey from working for Infosys to beco ... Show More
1h 10m
Feb 2022
The Price of Adventure
Renowned mountaineer Alex Lowe had reached the summit of his career by 1999, scaling some of the planet’s most challenging peaks. Just a few months after he was featured in National Geographic as “one of the world’s finest all-around climbers,” he was killed in an avalanche in Ti ... Show More
30m 53s
Aug 2023
Aditya Gupta: Sports & Business Parallels
In this episode of The Habit Coach podcast, Ashdin Doctor is joined by Aditya Gupta, the visionary Founder of The Rug Republic, an accomplished Mountaineer, Author, and captivating TEDx speaker. Gupta delves into his early introduction to exhilarating treks, recounting his inaugu ... Show More
39m 38s
Oct 2020
Determination - Part 1
Our guest today is Fadi Hachicho, who's life is filled with climbing mountains and other forms of adventure. We talk to him about what led him there, and he tries to drag me along for the ride. He is also here to talk to us this week about the topic of "Determination", which he h ... Show More
18m 9s
Oct 2020
Determination - Part 1
Our guest today is Fadi Hachicho, who's life is filled with climbing mountains and other forms of adventure. We talk to him about what led him there, and he tries to drag me along for the ride. He is also here to talk to us this week about the topic of "Determination", which he h ... Show More
18m 9s
Jun 2021
K2: The Savage Mountain |Fredrik Sträng, Pt. 1: On Climbing the World’s Highest Peaks | 4
Mountaineer Fredrik Sträng survived the deadly turn of events on K2 in 2008. In part 1 of this 2-part interview, Sträng talks about the challenges of climbing the world’s highest peaks and what it's like to train for these incredible feats.Listen early and ad free with Wondery+. ... Show More
41m 59s
Aug 2021
The psychology of courage and bravery
The adventurer and ultra-runner Alex Staniforth talks about his survival on Everest following the devastating Nepalese earthquake in 2015. Rachel Manning from Buckingham University considers why we do or don’t intervene in risky situations and in everyday life. And Patrick Tissin ... Show More
26m 28s
Aug 2015
Climber Conrad Anker on Suffering, Risk, Reward & The Allure of Meru
“Enlightenment isn't found on a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.”Conrad Anker Imagine bivouacking in a portaledge — you and two other guys crammed into a small mountaineering tent pitched vertically and dangling on the side of a sheer Himalayan cliff 19,000 feet above solid gro ... Show More
2h 10m
Aug 2023
Interview with Guy Cotter, CEO of Adventure Consultants
<p>Today&#39;s episode is an interview with Guy Cotter, CEO of adventure consultants who has been mountaineering and guiding for over 3 decades. We talk about him starting out as a mountaineer, becoming a guide, and then becoming the CEO of Adventure Consultants. We talk about ho ... Show More
1h 2m