(PART 1) The Climb Out of Pain is Taller Than Everest with National Geographic photographer Cory Richards

So you are officially the first guest who when I said would you like a drink, you said, I'd love a scotch. Yeah. And uh and so you you're preparing yourself for what this conversation might be and you are actually drinking But let's be clear, you know, you didn't pour history No, I didn't pour a tumbler of it. It wasn't like drunk history. No, it's yeah, it's not drunk history, right?

Let's do the drunk history of your life. What happens after you reach the top? There's only one place to go. Corey Richards has literally reached the top of the world. As a National Geographic photographer and filmmaker, he climbed Mount Everest without oxygen.

He's also the first American to climb an 8,000 meter or 26,000 footer. foot peak during the winter. You may know him from the iconic cover of National Geographic, the one with the selfie he took after he survived an avalanche. But there's a twist. After all that success, Corey did not find peace.

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