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2015-02-26
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welcome to play a new pie, gas network, featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more players at play died in. Welcome to the mile high city, where marijuana law and the symbol of the counterculture now is just a part of everyday called the thursday night, a downtown denver, and we were invited to a marijuana, food and wine pairing catering to young professionals. You might expect to see the band talking up the here buddy Denver epicenter of marijuana industry. That's now all blue This is not somebody's backyard isn't industrial agriculture, absolutely good news
more people, are gonna, get healthcare, bad news. We, no way in the world that we're gonna be able to pay for his talk. about? Obama care a subject Stephen Brill knows well Comprehensive book comes just as the new congress is getting started with many republicans gunning for the affordable care act. So what works and what does it That's our story! Tonight. There are few people in the world who have this skill or the will to attempt to climb one of the world's seven summits. The tallest mountain on each continent don't make it. Today we go down. Expeditious unfinished, are alright. You've got to move tonight, you'll meet young men, who've done it with no legs I,
Steve Croft, I'm leslie star, I'm morley safer, I'm lara Logan. I am bill whittaker, I'm scant pelee those stories tonight on sixty minutes it colorado these days and you can smell change in the air. It's the same. Legal marijuana for recreational use If you are resident twenty one or older, you can walk into a state licence store and by up to an ounce of pot. Tourists are limited to a quarter out Colorado has allowed medical marijuana since two thousand one, but in twenty twelve Voters amended the state constitution to allow recreational pot and gave the gun in one year to make it work. Cholera those governor calls it the most ambitious social experiment of the twenty first century, three others it also have approved recreational part, but none has gone
further or faster into the legal retail we'd business. Then colorado, the experiment. Hit the one year mark, and we wanted to know how it's going. So we headed to Denver. The episode of marijuana industry. That's now in full bloom Welcome to the mile high city, where marijuana long, the symbol of the counterculture now is two part of everyday coach? It's a thursday night in downtown denver and we were invited to a marijuana, food and wine perry catering to young professionals. You might exe to see the ban talking up here Nobody is the food, sprinkle with marijuana the wine infused with the strain called killer queen
tender leo. Do nave selected it for the evening because of the mellowness of the strain there isn't any kind of anxiety attached to it. So that's why we have such a crowd of democratic people and what we're doing there with that machine is that it creates smoke that is cooled to minus ten degrees and that smoke is then blown into this bus and that allows the wind to open up and really bring in the fruit forward, qualities of it, the those who might remember pot from the seventies The marijuana grown and sold in colorado today is up to times stronger, there's a healthy up. tight for the rocky mountain high and no shortage of stores to supply the demand. There is the key. Or store in denver one. Seventy three: a high and boutique in aspen. around the corner from products and gucci colorado has licensed more than three hundred recreational dispensary so far
not an estimated two hundred eighty eight million dollars and sales. Thirty seven million in tax revenue This is a lot of thought industrial scale, like this, do you have fully finish with. Our construction will have twelve like this one, sanders is a new breed of cannabis. Ceo driven push marijuana into the mainstream: a suburban, Mother of two? She left a private equity firm to run mindful achieve of for retail stores that sells recreational and medicinal pod All of this is legal, that's just mind blowing it is make. Did you ever think? You would be here doing this? No! Never. In a million years I was working in a in a small financial office and and a lot of upper growth and what better opportunity than to jump into a fledgling industry.
Something that will never see again in our lifetime. Forty four thousand square foot marijuana factories cutting edge audit in water and nutrients systems feed the plant, lighting mimics the season, so plants can be harvested year around all the in a warehouse right across the street, from a denver police station sixty mindful employees cultivate, trim and package up to five pounds of marijuana every month This is not somebody's backyard. This is not some stones basement this is a big business. industrial agriculture, absolutely commercial. marshall grow right here, which is why she recruited philip hague, known the trade as a master grower. He used to call The flowers on an industrial scale in texas, but his true
passion is part. What do you bring to the table here? Efficiency on the gross I'd? I took this building more, like a large scale, tomato greenhouse than your average canada screw ain't tomatoes: these are definitely not tomatoes. It's a very specialised plant at you, personal, familiar with your where's? Most definitely All of this still is illegal. At the federal level the justice depart and is watching closely. The Feds they won't intervene as long as colorado's recreational pot, doesn't fall into the hands of kids or criminals or cross state lines. With marijuana growing acceptance in colorado, your says, she's comfortable as cannabis. Capitalist, add a massive engineering. Rail network three year old son, eliza works with her at mindful she's.
parents at her daughters, middle school seem more curious than critical lover business. Do you have any concerns that europe is sending the wrong signal to yours, Thirteen year old daughter, I can and about that at all? I'm, not this isn't carte blanche, because work here. Everybody should have access to it, and that includes her very good conversations about it. She knows she knows your business person, I think something. Look at this and say she's just pedal drugs. I can tell you that drug dealer drug dealer on the corner in any state in this nation. Isn't carding, isn't it Your idea so make sure you have a medical marijuana card or you're over twenty one listened does it every day the stats show it. We ve done phenomenal.
mindful expects to rake in eighteen million dollars this year. But it's easy money, cholera, requires every plant rhone by unlicensed operator to be tracked from seed to sail, each one has a bar coded radio frequency idee tag and is logged into a state. Why database camera watch it all? The goal is to keep reboot and bit off the black market, greenwood village, least chief John Jackson, isn't so long for What is really trying to do the right thing here? It's different its requiring a mind, change or shift on our part. action. Is president of the colorado association of chiefs of police. He says there still illegal part on the street, from underground dealers, who don't have to levy twenty percent in state taxes? common belief that by legalizing it you will get rid of the black market.
I can resolve. They say that the black market is alive and doing well, buy it from the dealer on the street than divide in the store. Certainly know we ve an entire industry here and I'm gonna be honest with you. There are some very lots of people that are involved in its like it, else in society you gotta people that are really making it hard for the others we use colorado as a platform to simply provide their marijuana to the russian. country This is what he's talking about in october. Denver police and the dea a rated several warehouse operations that were allegedly growing marijuana destined for out of state neighbors. rascal and Oklahoma, are suing to have the? U s supreme court decline Colorado's recreational pot market unkind to claiming marijuana is crossing their borders. It's too
only to say give other problems are taking root. Colorado is just now starting to collect and analyse data on pots impact on the state I do worry about. If we are irreparably harming colorado and into something that will take years to discuss out this baby. Thirty one year old, Andrew Friedman, Colorado's marijuana tsar he's a whore log red hand picked by collar. Governor John Higgins to oversee the roll out of legalised recreational part? There is no map I mean you guys are racing How did you know thousand miles an hour and you're trying to work. This out. on the fly. How do you do that? unbelievable challenge within one year. We wanted to get our culture up to speed and what is, and what is the right amount to imbibe or to smoke
DR, what's appropriate around kids, what's appropriate and public society. Never waiting on these things before. Ok, anything else, caregivers, like market grey market, where we're going on it We regularly calls together the department heads of revenue, health, education, all the state agencies involved with marijuana trying. To balance the demands of the people with public safety and the law allow in italy, but here, but our I'd of colorado, it's still illegal. It's a federally illegal drugs square. Those too well, that is a round pegana a square hole. It takes everybody being Creative has ways they haven't been creative. Before and knowing that, at any time the federal government can come and showed us down and tell us that what we're doing is illegal in their eyes. You still sick, that's possible sure. It's completely swell that in a few years some comes around and says a new president says we are
ok with you doing this. They know their under a microscope. That's colorado was quick to act when it bit into trouble with edibles marijuana. Candies, cookies and other infused foods. Just three, my since illegal immigration, a nineteen year old college student, visiting denver leaped to his death from a hotel balcony after eating a pot lease cooking, the core, report noted marijuana intoxication as a significant contributing factor. If the things we didn't see coming was that people were going to overdose on edibles and we're not going to hot try to hide that problem. New rules and regulations came out faster than I think. You've ever see, state government do something new rules, placed immediate limits on the amount of th, see marijuana, Major psychoactive ingredient alive, in and require new labeling detailing the potency of each serving but the big sk cloud over the industry is banking as well
where's. The federal government continues to count pot proceeds as illegal drug money. Most banks won't touch it. So colorado's billion dollar marijuana industry is conducted. most entirely in cash. That's why Mig sanders keeps a two tonnes safe, so Pay was in cash hero, taxes, taxes, licensing fees, homely bow, vendors, you name it at our electrician, absolutely from public. Safety standpoint. It's definitely the number one issue that this industry faces. You wanna warranty that a fledgling industry becomes corrupt and because pop with gang activity fake it all cash? What is AL? Capone cash creates corruption colorado governor john Higgins process. A partial solution. Might a new state chartered cannabis credit union he's
urging the federal government to approve it still. Despite the problems, Higgins per says, he's encouraged by the roll out of this green experiment. Colorado voters want it in the beginning, I think it was a good idea. No, I posted you know, and I oppose even after the election, if I'd had a magic wand, and I could work the wand, father would have reversed it. and had the initiative fail, but now look at it and I'm not so sure I do that. Didn't I had such a one emetic. We made a lot of progress in still a lot of work to be done, but I think we might. To create a system that that can work Alright, I will have to make Sanders says. Marijuana is good for business, it's pretty groovy, dude and good for colorado, have you seen marijuana effect on the economy? Here? Absolutely you can't find an empty warehouse means that hit of really. I mean you just can't and then think the ripple effect I mean we we have
at a ton of businesses, security marketing, you know web hosting you they were a business just like anybody else. We have the same needs to do You can walk into a mindful dispensary and by a joint for fourteen dollars and fifty three cents. Business is good andrews, is planning to expand or creating we're saying. Please trust us. We know what we can do this right. I do remember when this is rolled out. Everyone thought the sky, gonna fall, still bear it. Didn't vow, and business is thriving. Customers are still coming through the door. So clearly I'm looking at my business and I'm looking at those around me a consumer sang this works sixty minutes coming up after this short break. Do you
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and ten million americans who didn't have health insurance before have signed up but congressional republicans are gunning for obama care, even if they can. outright repeal it they want overhaul and with the debate just getting underway author steve brill, who has spent the past two years. Immersing himself in the subject has come. with a new book america's bitter pill that takes it comprehensive, look at what the new law does and doesn't do Brill argues that obama care is the product of what he calls an orgy of lobbying and backroom deals in which just about everyone, with a stake the three trillion dollar a year. Health industry came out ahead, except the taxpayers. Good news More people are gonna, get healthcare, bad news, no way in the world that we're going to the pay for it
Brill says that the outrage is what the afford will care agnes doesn't do, doesn't do anything cool malpractice reform. It doesn't do anything to control drug prices. It doesn't do anything to control hospital profits. Cells is all the costs controlling site this just want by the wayside, Ninety nine percent of it brill that when it came to controlling cause, the white house was told a front after cos, You never gonna get anything past because the law his work. I'm just not allow it to be passed. So, let's go through what each entity, one the drug companies they were gonna get two hundred billion dollars worth of new customers able to pay for drugs. They will void the calamity of the real reforms that they are worried about. Pricing Rolls generally can do and I being able to buy drug some. Can that would, of course, them hundreds of billions.
Hospital lobby did agree to cuts and how much the federal government compensates them from medicare patients brill says overall, the trade off in new paying patients would more than make up for that answer. hospitals, manage to keep other costs, controls completely off the table, allowing to charge whatever they can get for hostile stays- can greatly mark up drug and test prices, In writing. His book brill one to find out how hospitals, jack up those prices he found. answer in the retching family of lancaster ohio. Always there Experience both before and after obama. Care kicked in shows all the things brill says the law should have dealt with like highly inflated hospital charges, but didn't when you get healthy and that's what I told em they're story begins in two thousand twelve, when Sean richie. Then forty two father of two was done.
Agnes with cancer stage, for non hodgkin's lymphoma too, in children. You know I want to see him get married. I want to see my grandchildren, you know, do early stephen, was determined to get him to empty anderson and Houston, one of the premier nonprofit cancer centres in the country, but because, health insurance policy was so limited. They had to pay up front first, forty, eight thousand nine hundred dollars for the evaluation, then more for the actual treatment, told me that we would have to give them another thirty five thousand dollars to get a premium, Did you have the money Didn't my mother, does your mother had to give you the money? I guess I just kept thinking in the back of my mind, there is a mistake: we'll work it out. I just have to get in there and I have to better. That was, let me concern when Sean was sick. They felt vulnerable and scared. Like most people
that kind of crisis. They never will ask what any specific item or test cost when they got the bill they gave. It Stephen brill, who found charges, he couldn't believe first thing I saw their bill was generic tylenol, for dollar. Fifty. Now, that's not on pill, one pillar, you can buy a hundred in our tiles. For the same two, fifty so that's a thousand percent mark, but who There's a sister dollar fifty registered bring down the bill, they some, like fifteen thousand dollars worth of blood tests, that in america within a few hundred dollars for the charge add up over the single spaced eighteen pages of the bill. dependent hospital. Economists say these are all greatly inflated over their actual cause, like a pet scan Five thousand four hundred fifty three dollars a fortune, percent mark up three
see tee scans for nine thousand six hundred eighty five dollars an eleven hundred percent mark up the charge his room was thousand seven hundred forty six dollars for six days that comes to seventeen hundred ninety one dollars a day. You and I to get into this business. It's a call and non profit, but it's a good business the single largest charge was for his cancer drug were toxin. for one dose, the hospital build him. Thirteen thousand seven hundred two dollars the hospital paid. Three thousand five hundred dollars to that truck. I have how many times that's a four hundred percent markup. This is a non profit, but what does nonprofit mean? It means that and pay taxes. That's the first thing: they don't pay any taxes. They ve created in healthcare an alternate universe economy with everybody, except the doctors and nurses.
It's a ton of money and nobody Holding them accountable and obama does zero to change anything empty anderson declined to appear on camera, but sent us a letter defending the prices it charges, patients saying the costs reflect in part, use and maintaining expensive state of the art, medical equipment and research. To develop new and better treatments brill, says: hospitals, get some federal aid for new technology and says in general, large nonprofit hospitals are thriving businesses, he suggested we go to pittsburgh. Once a steel city today, pittsburgh biggest business, is a hospital complex. The universe city of pittsburgh, medical center, see you jeffrey Roma showed us the view from his office. Here we are in this. You are still building steel defined pittsburgh and now you
the hospitals define pittsburgh in the sense that you imply more people. We avoid sixty two thousand. We are not only the largest employer in western pennsylvania, where the largest employer in all of pennsylvania. It's a toy a billion dollars a year global health conglomerate. By one estimate the nation top grossing nonprofit hospital. What's your salary, my shower seven, six million dollars of the arguments against these nonprofits are so big and make all this money is so much of its going to executive pay, but six million dollars, and you have seven executives here who make more than two million, and you have another. Twenty three, who make more than a so. Let's add it all up? What do you have a hundred million dollars on twelve billion? I can't off the top of my head, calculate what percentage? That is what it is likely to less than one percent, but it's a non
often hospital and exorbitant exec pay. Well, that your judgment of it, I think my board determines what the appropriate, position is for me and for all the other executives does run a top ranked medical research centre with a reputation for excellence, and he says he's been trying to rein in hospital cause and he thinks he's up with a solution. We our own insurance company, you have your own insurance company, yes as part of the company. Yes, he says the beauty of it is. There is no incentive for his hospital to overcharge his insurance company? In other words, there's nothing to gain and inflating a patient's bill. We all of us family. It's the same kitty, premiums now are among the lowest in the country, His insurance companies policies can be used at his hospitals as well as selected rival, hospitals in the state he thinks
The idea of hospitals with their own insurance companies could be a model for the nation and the best way to reduce inflated cos. Loggers, ok, but you met that you are part of the problem, not a we were part of the problem is one of the most successful part of the problem, so you we met the new participated in this that just willy nilly jack prices way up, as I did, I say anything about willy nilly, I'm saying I'm saying well, I know I'm not saying willy nilly. What do you have to say about the hospitals who are still doing that? It is untenable and unsustainable to be fair, but also do save lives. As brill says they do god's work. In sean wretches case the anderson's treatment plan. The chemo worked, I am one hundred percent cancer clean and feel great, even oh he's, eighty four thousand dollars in the whole. Today, spite sean's pre existing condition. The wretches have
Good health insurance, because two thousand and thirteen they signed up for obamacare so they have total coverage. One huh percent subsidized by taxpayers, Obamacare has passed empty anderson goes, if someone reduction are, they still charging thirteen thousand seven hundred and they probably are. If you don't have insurance, if you do I have insurance through obamacare or otherwise, prices would, in most cases be negotiated down. What about the room? she's. Eighty four thousand dollar bill at empty anderson and Houston. It would most clearly not be negotiated down, because they signed up for medicaid under obama care in ohio, which is not recognized in texas, In their letter, empty anderson, wrote thanks to the official will care act? Experiences like the wretches should become less common. However, the price I'm still exists
Even while some prices are being negotiated down, not prices are brill says that overall costs are still going up, because there are now millions more people getting covered and treated in a present. obama says over and over that cossack down or implies that coming down because of the I will correct the who knows sunday, maybe it'll be true healthcare costs. Have slowed down, though brill's it's not because of obamacare and besides there still rising at a rate, double the pace of inflation, the moon, touted savings in present keeps talking about. It still increases so. Instead of going like that, it's going, you don't do this step, if there's a piece of data that comes out that says that the galloping increase in the cost of some aspects of health care? Has
started galloping a little less its touted as the cost is going down minutes. It's just ridiculous brill says he has come to appreciate the good that the affordable care act is done in it's a safety net for so many people like the wretches, but he wants the public too now that what was to be at its heart drive down the cost of health care was neglected and its taxpayers who are left holding the bag about I care: is a government take over of healthcare? That's what the that's! What the republicans back here is the instead of a government take over of healthcare obama care. Is the taxpayers intervening to the private sector for their already inflated prices that they charge for healthcare, is any way now to go back. Add costs containment, possible. Then it's more impossible. Now, when this becomes a fiscal crisis that made me
They have never wait for me as a crisis of Pierre. That's the way we do a lot of governance in this country. We wait for something to be a crisis when something becomes a crisis that enough of us care about, then the law This matter a lot less because We care a lot more sick the minutes coming up after this short break trust,
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welcome to play a new pie, gas network featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more players at play. Died in there are few. People in the world who have this skill or the will to attempt to climb one of the world seven summits. The tallest mountain on each continent night you'll meet young men who ve done it with no legs, thereby he's and their lives were shut. in the war in afghanistan and iraq, but on the big mountains they find a way to we came what they lost on the battle. Field going beyond the limits of their injuries to achieve what seems impossible at their side, is a former health angels, biker name tim advance. Never served in the military, but on his journey to the top of MT everest
He says he found a way to help catastrophically wounded war veterans we join tim and a young marine as they climbed up the tallest peak in australia and so for ourselves how a mountain can someone's life
it was below freezing at sixty five hundred feet above sea. The private first class isaac blunt had hit the deep snow on mount kosciusko. The most brutal part of his climb was just beginning and without knees, every stiff awkward step he took was a bafta for his trainer mentor and self appointed drill. Sergeant TIM, med vet was pushing him every step of the way to go. Paul just fall straight back on me and by that afternoon a severe storm had enveloped them in blinding snow and wind isaac was only halfway to the summit and he could barely move. I need everything you got otherwise worked on the journey to this mountain started two months earlier in the hills outside san diego we met
sick as he was starting to train with TIM, who was preparing him for life dailies in his new timing prosthetic legs he'll see about the sort of trying to time a mountain Those can be a challenge and I would have to plague I'd have to get out of my chair. Have start doing thing that I've been wanting to do. Would you describe the last two years? For? U hell? I, It was twenty years old when he was sent into the centre of the fight against the taliban in afghanistan, as small boy from wisconsin. He grew up in military family and all he s wanted was to be a marine on patrolling helmand problem in two thousand eleven just three since his deployment isaac step. And I d blew away most of his lower body. They told me that I had lost, both my legs
They told me tat unless I was able to move my fingers there, my arm, because aid really must show my eye bicep and my form two weeks later, the dock. Whose had to remove his eye after it already lost your legs and yellow your arm. Was that hard? I think, hard is poor, was finding out that my testicles were gone the likely avatar she's here american isaac battle depressed, For the next two years and had all but given up his recovery. When he learned about tim vets and his work with The veterans had survived catastrophic injuries. Why? to choose isaac aloud guys. You get used to wheelchair, because it's easy, you know putting legs on not easy, is painful its work.
and that's her isaac is now that's right. It is now- and that's where I commend you- go to chose the lowest of the seven summits for eyes it because of this very tee of his injuries, but he also chose winter. The toughest time of year. we have really taken comes from the challenge. He says not from making it easy. I have to give him a mountain. That's like a mount everest all those injuries he has, and I'm going to take but the hardest rout. After all those things in their ears possibility might not make the first thing. Isaac you counted at the base of the mountain. Was this and underbrush covered in snow that tangled and twisted around his artificial life, there was no trail and with
it's prosthetics digging into his stumps. He painfully fought his way up. The mountain with each snip isaac moved only a few inches and after seven hours of climbing on that first day, he'd barely made it a mile in a very good and blazing a trail. As darkness fell tim at his side. What about right now getting a camp. I want to focus on like there is there's a few points said I swear to god. I thought my bone growth through my skin. I just wanted to tell him like dude. I can't do this I am then way too much pain. I can't do this. In point. It becomes more mental than physical, and that's the poor where it comes down
To this end, this timid vets would never tell you he knows what it's like to be wounded on the battlefield, but what helps him relate to injured veterans like isaac is his own experience of struggling to overcome life threatening injuries from a motorcycle crash thirteen years ago, from my is nick cage, rounded than bolted. With six bolts, there's been fused. I have too many. Plates in my head and ten screws have two metal plates and ten screws. On my right hand, two year has ain't area by K. I tough guy. What's it like to suddenly find yourself in this state completely vulnerable in broken I would just you know cover the pain within our fifteen twenty vacant ends and whisky at the bottom of a downward destructive spiral. Tim picked up crack hours book into thin air about a hiking, anxiety on MT everest in which eight people died?
He says climbing everest struck him as the ultimate way to prove to his doctors and himself that he was still capable of doing something that difficult with no mountain climbing experience and a body patched again with metal he set his sights on conquering the world's highest peak. This was going to be my rehabilitation. Yeah stance of like for a guy like me to walk into these these. These rights place. These people doing is all in all squeezing the ball thing I walked out and marion didn't physical therapy. For me, that was just that. Wasn't enough. That was like guy has a dime. It was. and I felt like I was dying inside so I needed I needed a punch in the mouth What was that punch in the not over issues punch in the mouth cs later on his second attempt teams. what'd the mountain as part of the deal.
Every channel series everest me the limit. He says the. experience, got him off his pain pills and back on his feet. He became convinced they could do the same for injured, veterans, so we create what he calls the heroes project. One man organization that takes amputees where most able bodied people wouldn't dare venture on the floor, in the tundra of antarctica, the top of MT mckinley, the highest peak in north america. The mountains like that the you know forget that they even lost their lives because if they can do that, they can do anything. You do do anything These three young men were all wounded, fighting the same enemy in Afghanistan as isaac and those recovered here at the naval medical center, san diego, where isaac was proof caring for his klein each one of
followed, timid, vets to climb one of the seven summits? Is he took marine corporal key anti story to the This place honour antarctica where he struggled for two weeks to get to the top of mount vincent. going through my injury. I lie. I myself did cool. I was I gotta, go where I was actually start to hit that breaking port of you know you hit that suicide of plateau that's how the amount I felt like I found- who I actually was, who I am and war I can do stuff sergeant. Mark Zahm bond travelled with him to africa, where he clung the continent's highest peak mount kilimanjaro in tanzania, moment. It was like. You know that answered it. For me, you know that this injury, like doesn't
define my life. I define it in life is still able to be powerfully lived even in this condition, and corporal brad Ivan Chan went with him to south america, where he climbed Ninety three thousand feet to the summit mount aconcagua less than a year after losing both his legs. Something that you can carry with you, the rest of your life, and it also helps put a closure on a period in your life too. I don't know where I would be today if I had not done it stephanie prove my life significantly and my outlook on life significantly deal, said it was the most physically demanding thing that ever done in their lives, that's miserable, in high altitude mountaineering, it's just it's just pure suffering. period, your freezing, your starving, your bodies, withering away ache in europe as a whole
I was to why do people do it for that? that. Five minutes on the summit that accomplishment- something happened sooner than what, if they weren't they dial one of your climbs with you conversation. You have with them course from day one taking into account that people die on, it might happen, it might have that's part of the recovery. That's part rehabilitation, It gets like deploying to Iraq to point to afghanistan. It's going on on a patrol everyday. They don't coming back. You know and that's that's a powerful Powerful life changing experience back on mount cauzee asko with storm had grown stronger and more threatening eyes. its mission had now become extremely dangerous after three days he was
far from this summit, it'll make it to that saturday. We go down. Expeditious unfinished, are alright, got to move with the storm turned into a white out, sixty mile an hour winds and zero visibility was a storm had the only I could actually follow the trail as if I had somebody, leave two feet in front of me. So I can see their snowshoes the few times that, like I'd sink in or something, and he the guy in front of me, would get get a little bit further ahead. I'd look I can even see him to move the team. Hunky dory to wait it out. There stranded for too long been just as they were, reaching their limits. skies clear. Leaving me
and a hard icy surface on the mountain. I was able to move so much faster. Does all the snow was combat I was thinking I was having troubles with my side. Stakes like I could stay on top of the snow. The ice covered for miles in this one day more ground than he had the entire expedition, and the summit was now finally within his reach, but he still faced the most challenging part. The final four hundred feet of vertical elevation to the top the five days isaac blunt had enjoyed on mount, causing asko with a first. He spent without his wheelchair, is losing his legs. Two years before now,
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