Fox News Correspondent Summits Mount Everest, Does 22 Pushups
The post Fox News Correspondent Summits Mount Everest, Does 22 Pushups appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Fox News Senior Correspondent Mike Tobin on the summit of Mount Everest Fox News Carrying a Fox News Channel flag, Fox News Senior Correspondent Mike Tobin reached the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. That’s a massive achievement in itself, but Tobin completed one of the world’s riskiest and most dangerous challenges by dropping and doing 22 pushups in recognition of the 22 veterans who die by suicide every day. “You have seen some of the different events that people have done as far as the 22 push-ups in recognition of the veteran suicide,” Tobin said on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom. “I hope that a troubled guy out there somewhere who was looking at suicide as a reasonable response to his troubles will realize that someone took the time to do that in a perilous situation and reconsider before he hurts himself.” Tobin, an experienced climber who has reached the summits of Cotopoxi, Chimborazo, Aconcagua, the Eiger, the Matterhorn, the Wetterhorn, and Cho Oyu, says preparing for Everest was an entirely different–and grueling–experience. “We did crazy kinds of training,” he said. “Like, I take the sandbags that our cameramen use and I put them in a backpack and I ran up and down the Indiana sand dunes for hours at a time.” But that physical training couldn’t prepare him for the unique psychological experience of reaching the top of the world–and then returning safely. “I certainly was spooked at different times on the climb,” Tobin said. “The only time I really noticed that I was spooked was coming back down the Second Step. To explain what the Second Step is, on the northeast ridge of Everest, there are three major obstacles, the First, Second and Third Step. And for whatever reason–and some of the other guys…
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Fox News Senior Correspondent Mike Tobin on the summit of Mount Everest Fox News Carrying a Fox News Channel flag, Fox News Senior Correspondent Mike Tobin reached the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. That’s a massive achievement in itself, but Tobin completed one of the world’s riskiest and most dangerous challenges by dropping and doing 22 pushups in recognition of the 22 veterans who die by suicide every day. “You have seen some of the different events that people have done as far as the 22 push-ups in recognition of the veteran suicide,” Tobin said on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom. “I hope that a troubled guy out there somewhere who was looking at suicide as a reasonable response to his troubles will realize that someone took the time to do that in a perilous situation and reconsider before he hurts himself.” Tobin, an experienced climber who has reached the summits of Cotopoxi, Chimborazo, Aconcagua, the Eiger, the Matterhorn, the Wetterhorn, and Cho Oyu, says preparing for Everest was an entirely different–and grueling–experience. “We did crazy kinds of training,” he said. “Like, I take the sandbags that our cameramen use and I put them in a backpack and I ran up and down the Indiana sand dunes for hours at a time.” But that physical training couldn’t prepare him for the unique psychological experience of reaching the top of the world–and then returning safely. “I certainly was spooked at different times on the climb,” Tobin said. “The only time I really noticed that I was spooked was coming back down the Second Step. To explain what the Second Step is, on the northeast ridge of Everest, there are three major obstacles, the First, Second and Third Step. And for whatever reason–and some of the other guys…
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