Preparation
The training, conditioning, altitude strategy and logistics behind another Everest attempt.
I’m going back.
Everest has already taught me one of the hardest lessons I know: sometimes the strongest decision is not to keep climbing. In 2019, after reaching roughly 23,000 feet beyond Camp 2, I turned around.
A decision to turn back became part of the story, not the end of it.
In 2019, I went to Everest carrying the same thing many people carry into difficult goals: preparation, ambition, identity, expectation and a story about what success was supposed to look like.
I moved through the Khumbu Icefall and reached the Camp 2 area. After a long push, the right decision was to turn back.
That decision has stayed with me because it forced a distinction I still think about today: quitting and choosing are not always the same thing.
Sometimes turning back is not giving up. It is choosing the future over the story you wanted to tell today.
I am not returning because I need Everest to validate me. I am returning because the mountain still represents a question worth answering.
What happens when you revisit a goal after life, age, experience and perspective have changed you?
The second journey is not a replay of 2019. It is a different person returning to the same mountain with a different understanding of risk, identity, preparation and choice.
Training. Setbacks. Equipment. Altitude work. Preparation. Fear. Decision-making. The people behind the expedition. I want to document the journey, not just post the summit photo.
The training, conditioning, altitude strategy and logistics behind another Everest attempt.
What gets changed, reconsidered or abandoned as reality replaces the original plan.
Updates from the journey, the mountain, the team and the realities that rarely make the final highlight reel.
What Everest reveals about identity, risk, performance, possibility and knowing when to keep going.
Social, email and expedition updates can all live here as the project develops.
Project Everest creates a natural platform for brands that have a credible connection to performance, preparation, resilience, technology, health, travel, outdoor equipment, media or human possibility.
I am interested in partnerships that make sense to the audience and to the expedition. Not logo placement for the sake of logo placement.
We can explore whether Project Everest provides a credible story, audience or activation around it.
Discuss Sponsorship →Project Everest is not separate from my work on identity, choice and possibility. It is one of the places where those ideas become impossible to keep theoretical.
At altitude, the questions become physical. What matters? What are you proving? What are you willing to risk? When do you push? When do you turn around?
That is why I want people to follow the journey even if they never intend to climb a mountain.