Chaos of Climbing Everest: The Mental Journey | Courtney Reardon | TEDxAsburyPark
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2019
- Picture an Everest climber. Strong. Resilient. Capable. But everyone has weaknesses. And Everest will expose them! Courtney recently became the 68th American woman to summit Mount Everest and survive. Despite the challenges of climbing to 29,029 feet into The Death Zone - where the altitude is so high, cold, windy, and deprived of oxygen the human body starts to eat itself - Everest has a contagious allure. Sir Edmund Hillary, first to summit Everest said, “It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves”. On Everest, Courtney conquered her own mental chaos and learned several life-changing lessons along the way. Learn more at tedxasburypark.com/
Courtney Reardon recently became the 68th American woman to summit Mount Everest and survive. An unlikely person to find herself at the highest point on earth, she has worked in Finance in New York City for the past 12 years and is currently a Senior Vice President in Business Development at an asset management firm. After graduating from Columbia University, she began working on Wall Street at Bear Stearns and subsequently BofA Merrill Lynch and BMO Capital Markets. Courtney developed her love of the outdoors later in life, during the depths of the Financial Crisis. Swapping out her usual dresses and high heels, she uses her vacation time from work to climb some of the world’s highest peaks, such as Mount Everest, Denali, Kilimanjaro, and Vinson Massif in Antarctica among other peaks.
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Chaos of Climbing Everest: The Mental Journey
Picture an Everest climber. Strong. Resilient. Capable. But everyone has weaknesses, and Everest will expose them. Courtney recently became the 68th American woman to summit Mount Everest and survive. Despite the challenges of climbing to 29,029 feet into The Death Zone - where the altitude is so high, cold, windy, and deprived of oxygen the human body starts to eat itself - Everest has a contagious allure. On Everest, Courtney conquered her own mental chaos and learned several life-changing lessons along the way.
Courtney has worked in Finance in NYC for the past 12 years and is currently SVP at an asset management firm. After graduating from Columbia University, she began working on Wall Street. Her love of the outdoors developed during the depths of the financial crisis. She now uses her vacation time to climb some of the world’s highest peaks, including Denali, Kilimanjaro, and Vinson Massif in Antarctica. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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This is basically a talk on how to put yourself, and the people around you, in extreme danger.
And just out of pure egoism.
“Everything was always handed to me, I needed this to be mine” *sherpa snoozing after carrying your gear, extra tanks, pitching camp, fixing lines all day 👩🦼💨
Everest has been commercialised and turned into a climbing tourist site. It’s not even the most difficult or the most dangerous mountain.
Annapurna I has a climber death rate of almost 34%, K2 is right behind at 29% and Everest sits at about 4%
Climbers like Reinhold Messner reached all 14 8,000m Himalayan peaks without supplementary oxygen. He also solo climbed Everest without supplementary oxygen.
These commercial climbs involve tonnes of equipment and food to be carried up by sherpas
Exactly!
Materialistic clown. Everest is NOT yours lady! Stick to bmw's or botox. Pathetic.
People with inexperience climber like her can be the ones to sadly die on Everest. She should not have put Sherpas and team in danger of their lives by being inexperience.
wonder how she was even eligible to climb, coz such inexperienced people shouldn't climb
$$$$
@@jak11631 YES, I've spoken with a world class mountaineer who has summitted Everest many times. He said anyone with the money, unfortunately, will find someone to guide them.
She was more prepared for Stone Mountain, not Everest. What a reckless individual
I have mixed feelings here. Great talk about how to overcome fear etc. but I'm also very annoyed at hearing about so many inexperienced climbers that put other lives at risk.
She should have gone back home, train for a year, climb a smaller mountain, train another year, and maybe then come back to climb this one. And know that she achieved it because of hard-work and dedication, not stubbornness and good luck.
It is not 30% less oxygen near the summit. It’s worse than that. The concentration of oxygen is about 1/3 of that at sea level. So it drops from about 20.6% at level to just under 7% at 29,000 feet.
…..Hillary was not alone when he first climbed Everest in 1953. Hillary and his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay reached the summit together.
if she would've had extensive mountaineering training like any climber attempting mount everest should have, then she wouldn't have to suffer and whine so much. really annoying ted talk unfortunately.
Nice talk, but you’re setting up totally wrong example. How could you be there without any experience or training? Sadly, $$ matters and inexperienced people like you buy this achievement which undermine this feat achieved by other experienced mountaineers.
Yes ..you are right...there is no way that person like her should be allowed though she achieved it but it doesn't meant that everyone can achieve...people like her become the reason for other's deaths..I am surprised everyone praising her but I don't think she did any wise act
Wether you like it or not Everest became, decades ago, an attraction for the wealthy to go risk their lives and the expedition is priced accordingly. Experienced mountaineers are well aware of this and unless they're on a quest for their 7th summit it doesn't make any sense for them to climb Everest. Seeing an experienced mountaineer climbing Everest doesn't impress anyone anymore, K2 is there for the most experienced.
You've never climb a mountain in your life and one day you just decide to climb mount Everest? That's so irresponsible!!
I think K2 is a much better test for “real” mountain climbers.....This mountain is now a tourist destination......How sad....As long as you have the money.......
How many times have you climbed it, player?
धन्यवाद !
lovely
Incredible, how you discover in very hard situations you have more strength than you thought! Respect to you! I would def s*** myself up there! :))
Heard that saying Anyone can climb Everest on a sunny day? Well, I dont actually believe it.
Love hearing stories about overcoming the fear, difficult situations. Thanks
Great talk. I enjoyed it
Who sees a ufo face on minut 7
💙💙💙💙
Go #68
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Brilliant
Courtney excellent talk. To hear the ups and downs of that 2 month expedition brings it to life as if it's a human body. I hope you love your sherpas who helped you succeed, their expertise made you fulfill your dream and your able to let so many people know the inside truth about the climb. Congratulations.
Great pep talk... Loved it... Must say I learnt a lesson or two from your experience.. Never Underestimate yourself, it is all in mind.. Thank you..
Uh oh
Well done lady you inspire to do things that we fear
Some people say negative things , but have they climbed to the summit of Mount Everest? Probably not.
No more talks on everest please .. it's cliche
An EXCELLENT Motivational talk on overcoming hardships and self-challenges in your life! Thank you!
Insufferable
She didn’t climb anything. Sherpas carried up all her equipment and oxygen and fixed ropes ahead of her so she could pretend to climb and give this talk. Sherpas probably short roped her or carried her along the way.
Do. YOU. need. to. EMPHASISE. and PUNCTUATE. so. MUCH?
What a terrible speaker lucky to be alive
HotDAMN! This woman has mucho BALL! How I admire her heroism! We need a lot more like her.
She needs to shut up and contemplate a little before starting to speak again on this matter.
What a terrible person! No business being there😡
Make me a sandwich
Jesus, typical liberal arts grad