WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.440 the ASUS Rog gaming notebook featured in this video is available now from 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:09.599 newegg.com with a free bonus gaming bundle so be sure to check out the link 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:12.559 in the video description uh it was just as hard I think as I was expecting I 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:15.759 might die here I was going to have to turn back I was quite certain within 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:22.320 about the first half hour of the hike that I was not going to make it I expected a Expedition where we 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:26.599 would be camping out at the top or on the middle of the mountain and that it 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:30.640 would be take maybe two or three days um I definitely was not disappointed when I 00:00:28.119 --> 00:00:33.480 found out that was not the case and when I found out about this I was really 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:39.280 excited I thought it would be a great trip and whether it was an overnight trip or not I was pumped I love the 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:44.079 outdoors I love hiking um so I was just really excited overall I felt somewhat 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:48.280 ready uh I've been training for a backpack that I'm doing in about 3 weeks 00:00:46.239 --> 00:00:52.800 uh so I am in somewhat better shape than I was maybe six or or nine months ago um 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:57.719 but still with the elevation with everything I I was a bit concerned I'm 00:00:55.320 --> 00:01:01.399 really glad that I made it but uh it was just as hard I think as I was expecting 00:00:59.559 --> 00:01:04.879 I didn't prepare nearly enough uh the one thing I'm really glad I did is at 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:10.200 the very last possible second and my doctor really gave me um a lot of heck 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.759 about this is I went in and I got a prescription for some drug whose name I 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:17.880 can't pronounce that is supposed to supposedly help with altitude sickness 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:21.720 up to an altitud of around 8,000 ft of course the town we're staying at is at 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:26.479 around what 11,000 ft and then the Summit is over 14,000 fet so I did not 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:30.600 nearly adequately prepare for the altitude change uh the one thing I was 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:33.720 really happy with was my hiking gear even if it had rained I think I still 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.680 would have been okay but I was I was pretty well set up for that the real 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:42.560 part was bringing my shoes to The Cobbler I have these really nice hiking boots and the front flap on one of them 00:01:40.759 --> 00:01:45.880 is completely destroyed and the rest of it is kind of fine they fixed the back 00:01:44.119 --> 00:01:49.719 which had no real issues and then left the front flapping I was like this is 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:52.520 not what you do at a cobbler took them back to The Cobbler to be like okay I 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.560 need you guys to actually fix this they said oh yeah we close at 9: on Saturday 00:01:54.119 --> 00:01:58.680 you can come pick them up I Googled them too and it said they closed at 9: I show 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:03.479 up they closed at 600 I showed up about 610 did not get my boots back and then I 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:07.600 walked the whole thing in basketball shoes that I B from a friend uh the 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:13.959 ascent below the tree line um was where I really got worried about my team 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:16.160 overall um I had realized by about 30 00:02:13.959 --> 00:02:20.360 minutes in that neither of my camera operators were going to be able to 00:02:17.959 --> 00:02:25.000 capture the ascent with their cameras because they were at the very very back 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:29.080 of the pack uh also below the tree line I had begun to experience numbness up to 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:33.480 from about my fingertips to here in my hand and S is in the fingertips meaning 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:38.519 that I was succumbing to altitude sickness I gave myself 15 minutes to 00:02:36.040 --> 00:02:42.599 have it subside um and I went pretty slow to hopefully acclimate a little bit 00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:45.800 more before I figured I was going to have to turn back I was quite certain 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:50.560 within about the first half hour of the hike that I was not going to make it 00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:53.440 having never hiked anything ever before not even like the grass grind in 00:02:51.959 --> 00:02:57.440 Vancouver which is the easiest thing in the world because it's just stairs um I 00:02:56.040 --> 00:03:02.640 went out and bought shoes I went out and bought like Cliff bar way too many Cliff 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:04.319 Bars I get to the hotel and I carry my 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:09.280 normal luggage like my clothing luggage and my backpack up up the stairs and I 00:03:06.720 --> 00:03:14.920 almost blacked out up the stairs the altitude just knocked me to the floor 00:03:12.239 --> 00:03:21.239 like I could not move without my head pounding like I I was lying in bed just 00:03:18.040 --> 00:03:23.959 gasping for air uh so when thinking 00:03:21.239 --> 00:03:27.840 about the next day I was like w I'm going to die I never thought I would do 00:03:25.920 --> 00:03:33.360 anything like this I mean I do like walks and Hikes and stuff but not like 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:34.840 up 14,000 ft on a mountain so yeah no I 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.519 mean especially not taking like keyboards and laptops and the whole deal 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:42.080 no I never thought in a million years I would do it but you know what glad I did 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:45.599 it was awesome I've done some 13,000ft 00:03:44.200 --> 00:03:50.680 mountains before in the past so I knew ex kind of what to expect not in 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.959 Colorado out in California um and I knew 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:57.239 it was going to be one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life so just 00:03:54.640 --> 00:04:00.360 mentally I felt like I was respecting the mountain so the ascent below the 00:03:58.760 --> 00:04:04.720 tree line was uh it was the beginning of the day uh full 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:08.680 of energy I only got maybe three and a half four hours of sleep so once I got 00:04:06.920 --> 00:04:11.959 into the woods this is like my home ground I'm originally from Alaska so 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:15.400 going right back into this kind of space and climbing up through all these woods 00:04:13.519 --> 00:04:20.440 and jumping through these Trails was reminding me back when I was like 10 my 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:24.240 Ascent um was pretty miserable I was pretty horrified the entire time up I 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:29.880 honestly didn't think I was going to make it within the first 15 20 minutes of the hike I was so out of breath and 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:33.600 I'm like I'm only like 5% up the mountain and at this rate I'm going to 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:36.440 die before I actually make it to the top but there came a certain point I think 00:04:35.080 --> 00:04:40.600 it was probably after the tree line when I was you know more than halfway there 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:43.560 where I was like well I'm pretty much forced into making it to the top at this 00:04:42.440 --> 00:04:47.520 point I'm not going to just come all this way and then turn around and head back down that was just be a complete 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:51.639 failure it was just out of the option so I just I hated the fact that I knew that 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:54.720 I had to finish the hike but it was cool uh I think they had a little bit more 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:59.160 Brawn than brain and they just decided to like we're going to do this and they 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:01.240 did it um multiple people made like kind 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:04.000 of like wrong decisions like I think Luke probably should have turned around 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.080 earlier but he was like a monster he's like I don't give a I'm going to 00:05:05.320 --> 00:05:10.840 make it to the top Nothing is Stopping me and you would ask me are you okay 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:14.840 he's like nope I'm still going above the tree line the ascent got much easier for 00:05:12.840 --> 00:05:20.720 me I actually didn't experience any altitude sickness related symptoms once 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:23.479 I got past the trees and aside from I'd 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:29.880 say the really the really tough part was the extremely vertical Rocky and not 00:05:27.479 --> 00:05:33.520 very grippy slope where your feet could slip out from under you that was about 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:36.120 halfway between the tree line and the actual Summit that was the most 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:42.319 difficult part for me where we were basically taking 20 maybe 30 40 steps 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:44.160 and then we were sitting down and uh 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:48.000 taking like a bite of Cliff bar and then a drink from the camel back before we 00:05:45.880 --> 00:05:50.639 could keep going being on the summit and actually achieving this I mean we 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:55.880 thought about this over a year and a half ago and I always say this is an 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:59.160 excuse to work while having fun at the same time cuz I love doing this kind of 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:03.680 stuff actually being up there and doing it it was was I don't know kind of a 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:07.400 weird feeling it was had this weird I didn't I almost felt nothing and 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:12.199 everything at the same time you look around and it's like this amazing view 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:15.120 and then you're like playing Doom which is the game that got me started on land 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:19.960 gaming and the game that got just about everyone else started on land gaming and the game that got land gaming started 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:25.000 pretty much in the first place standing at the top of a 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:28.160 14,400 ft mountain is one thing standing 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:30.599 at the top of a 14,400 foot mountain 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:35.479 with a bunch of guys with laptops and keyboards playing doom on a landan with 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:39.919 the batteries that we hauled up and the router that we hauled up and we got like 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:44.560 notebooks strewn across rocks and we got keyboards in our laps and we're all 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:49.919 yelling because Kane is killing everyone and so there's Victory Cries From like 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:53.919 that one spot and then moaning from pretty much everywhere else it was 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:58.639 unlike anything that I've ever ever experienced before in my life it was 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:02.639 absolutely stunning and beautiful um and yet I was looking at it screen but not 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:06.639 the whole time so I got to have both of those outstanding experiences at the 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:10.840 same time you know it's funny that you ask that because the most memorable 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:15.800 thing for me was actually not necessarily the summit itself or the 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:20.639 view from the summit it was when I began to realize how high up we were when I 00:07:18.280 --> 00:07:25.160 was looking down on lakes and they were getting smaller and smaller so it maybe 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:29.960 wasn't one image but it was hiking for 10 or 15 minutes and realizing how much 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:34.680 higher I was than I was even even 10 minutes ago and just marveling at what 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:38.160 we were achieving and the people around me that were doing it too cuz I had 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.120 people in front of me that I was watching make the climb and I had people 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:48.680 behind me that I was looking back at watching them come over the same terrain that I was and having that experience of 00:07:46.039 --> 00:07:53.360 progress was uh probably the most memorable thing about the trip for me oh 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:57.879 hoisting the Highlander flag was uh was Unreal I mean what we went through to 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:02.000 get that flag made at the last minute and then standing there having had so 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:06.479 much of our team actually make it to the top I mean I straight up didn't think I 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:11.199 was going to make it I was sure Brandon wasn't going to make it and uh just 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:16.440 being able to all be there holding the flag having it waving flapping in the 00:08:13.039 --> 00:08:18.879 wind was uh a truly once in a-lifetime 00:08:16.440 --> 00:08:24.319 experience I'm so proud of Brandon when he came over the top of the hill I was 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:28.919 floored because we crossed a small Creek at the very bottom and his foot fell in 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:32.240 and he barely made it across the logs and I was like dude we're like 15 00:08:30.599 --> 00:08:36.880 minutes into this you're not going to make it man and uh as we were had all 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:40.399 finished packing up and we were at the end of the journey and we were going 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:43.919 home he comes up over the edge and I'm like dude come here there's no time for 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:47.680 you to sign the book the snow's coming down but I got the camera you got to 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:51.880 touch the flag that's at the top I'm going to video it it happened so I was I 00:08:49.880 --> 00:08:56.000 was so proud of him it I was just exhausted I was out of breath I I kept 00:08:54.680 --> 00:08:59.880 looking up at everyone else that was in front of me and I wasn't I was like I'm 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:05.120 not going to be able to keep up with him how am I going to how am I going to do my job cuz like as a camera operator I I 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:10.920 have to capture what's going on and I just I was working really hard and I 00:09:08.959 --> 00:09:14.519 really really did not have any confidence that I was going to make it 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:19.160 you just have to keep believing and making sure that you find a rhythm and 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:23.920 everything that don't don't get in the zone where everything that you think is 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:28.800 pulling you down just make it leave your head and and just keep on 00:09:26.079 --> 00:09:35.000 pushing knowing I was so close to making it and then just making the decision to 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:36.920 turn back I I don't think I regret it 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:44.399 couldn't catch my breath like even just sitting there I was gasping 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:47.279 freezing I just had to turn back 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:52.839 and I think that was the right choice so cair gives us like you know k95 and k70 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:56.079 RGB keyboards and I thought we were going to get a mouse so I know the guys 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:59.760 at course here were like they're going to carry this to the top I knew they were laughing at us I just knew that 00:09:58.640 --> 00:10:04.680 they were laughing knowing that we're were going to carry these things to the top now I cannot stand gaming on a 00:10:03.079 --> 00:10:09.320 laptop because I just don't deal with the keys so I was I put it right on top 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:12.600 of the keyboard and I was really really happy and I I made sure that I grabbed 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:17.120 the brown switches CU I like the brown switches a lot so I like dug through the pile and I made sure I got that one 00:10:15.839 --> 00:10:21.680 there was only like one or two of them and I grabbed it so I was really happy about that and then the gaming laptop 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:25.760 was completely Overkill because we're playing Doom right so we've got you know 00:10:23.920 --> 00:10:30.279 the ASUS laptop it's got the the brand new 4710 in it so we're we're just 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:34.200 taxing the hell out of that 4710 with doom but it was a really Sleek laptop I 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:38.440 I I do like the aesthetic of it The Descent was terrible uh I was fine all 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:43.720 the way up and then we started coming down and I couldn't really breathe properly I started getting seriously 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:46.680 dizzy I had a migraine and I think due to the migraine I couldn't really see 00:10:44.959 --> 00:10:52.040 very well it got to a point at actually at one point where I couldn't see pretty much at all uh I threw up about six 00:10:50.560 --> 00:10:57.040 times which is a big problem du dehydration and stuff like that and it 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:00.800 was it was bad once I got to the tree line though I laid down for about 5 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:06.880 minutes I'm in the trees the air is a lot better there's a lot better in the trees than it is even in town and sprang 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:13.040 back up and I was completely okay everything was gone no vision problems no more vomiting everything's fine we 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:16.519 start going down and then we realize Jimmy's not really Keeping Up With The 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:20.440 Pack and he's got a whole bunch of problems with his knees and he's feeling 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:24.360 sick and all that kind of stuff so so on the way down I got past the steepest 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:28.120 part and right after the steepest part I literally felt like I had no energy in 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:31.440 my body whatsoever and my knees were starting to like hurt really bad because 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:36.079 I just had no energy Austin and I run back and shoulder carry him we start 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:40.079 rotating bags around I'm carrying Jimmy Logan's helping and we eventually kind 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:45.760 of make it down we're at the point where we're rationing water because we have basically none left we're eating tons of 00:11:43.920 --> 00:11:49.040 different food we have no communication with the base camp at this point in time 00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:53.800 when I was coming down at one point lonus was anchoring me and then because 00:11:52.079 --> 00:11:58.680 I couldn't see then he takes off he's like I'm going to go get some footage up ahead I'm like okay and I kind of stay 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:04.639 there and then I see him sprinting down the hill and and I'm like oh so guess 00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:08.160 he's not coming back thanks bro and then we're trying to get down the last part 00:12:06.040 --> 00:12:11.720 through the trees we're messaging Kane and we're me trying to message people 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:15.199 and we get a message back that's like some quote from some freaking movie that 00:12:13.560 --> 00:12:18.399 I don't even remember I'm like thanks bro so we're trying to get down this 00:12:16.560 --> 00:12:24.240 mountain we have no water left people are seriously dehydrated like having 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:26.279 actual issues we're carrying people like 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:29.600 ridiculous I get down to the bottom like we all get down to the bottom there's a 00:12:27.680 --> 00:12:33.240 lightning storm partway through we all get down to the bottom I'm ready to 00:12:30.880 --> 00:12:36.760 murder lonus I'm ready to murder Kane I'm ready to murder multiple people but 00:12:35.160 --> 00:12:41.199 I'm just like I'm just going to shut up and wait and see what the stories are 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:45.480 everyone had good stories so it was okay I didn't have to kill anyone and then 00:12:43.199 --> 00:12:51.839 yeah that was that was The Descent all by myself in the snowstorm wearing a 00:12:48.079 --> 00:12:54.360 shirt and windbreaker I had like this 00:12:51.839 --> 00:12:59.880 much of Gatorade left this much of a cliff bar left and I was thinking I 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:04.639 could actually die up here I had bumped into a couple who are who were making 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:10.800 their way down they're like hey do you need some water or food I'm like yes 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:13.320 please okay so we kind of came around this Bend and you come around this Bend 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:17.800 and then there's these last set of switchbacks and you can see the the uh 00:13:16.079 --> 00:13:21.040 parking lot down below but there's still like another good quarter half mile to 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:25.760 get down these switchbacks right as we come around there some rain starts 00:13:22.959 --> 00:13:30.000 falling and we start to hear a couple lightning a couple Thunderbolts uh I 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.360 started Counting as soon as I would see a flash the first one was only maybe 00:13:31.760 --> 00:13:36.839 five or 6 seconds still too close to comfort but we just as soon as we 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:41.560 started hearing the first one or two we started moving much much faster coming 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:45.399 around this one Switchback is the most Vivid experience that I had I was 00:13:42.920 --> 00:13:50.000 looking straight down I could see uh Brandon and um who who was still in 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:53.920 front of me at that point uh Brandon and Luke were in front of me and at the end 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:59.199 of the Switchback where it turns back just beyond lightning bolt just straight 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:02.480 down and no no delay at all between when the lightning bolt went and the thunder 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:05.839 so it's just like it's on top of you at any moment you're thinking if if 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:10.519 lightning hits a tree next to me it could Arc over to me and you could just 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:12.160 die or or maybe just get really badly 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:16.959 injured I guess but uh so at that point we were fearing for our lives and the adrenaline took us the rest of the way 00:14:14.800 --> 00:14:20.639 down the mountain it was a harrowing frightening uh kind of terrible 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:28.399 experience but uh honestly very memorable and in retrospect since nobody 00:14:22.560 --> 00:14:28.399 died I guess good to some to some degree 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:49.460 back 00:14:50.040 --> 00:14:55.880 back let it be known to the world that lonus is a litterbug you should be 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:59.560 ashamed of yourself we in a beautiful place there's food in here shame and you 00:14:57.920 --> 00:15:06.120 threw it on the ground threw it on the ground I the rest of the 00:15:02.800 --> 00:15:06.120 cake too