Have you ever thought about climbing Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, or starting a global expedition guiding company specializing in rapid ascents on the world’s biggest mountains? Adrian Ballinger has.
Adrian Ballinger is a professional climber, big mountain skier, mountain guide, and the Founder of Alpenglow Expeditions. He’s climbed Everest 8 times, once without oxygen, and he’s gearing up for something even bigger…
If you’re a total logistics nerd (like Emily and Adrian) and obsessed with operations, or if you’re just drawn to pursuing crazy challenges, listen, learn, and be inspired as Adrian shares his story.
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On this episode:
- Learning to trust your team and delegate tasks when you start to scale beyond yourself
- The grind of growing guiding company, Alpenglow Expeditions
- Balancing a career as a professional athlete with running a business and keeping relationships alive
- How Adrian got his start as an adventure athlete
- Learning to reframe failure as success
- Altitude training systems and big mountain speed ascents
- The Lake Tahoe Via Ferrata and Adrian announces his quest to climb K2 without oxygen!
Ways to connect with Adrian:
- @adrianballinger on Instagram
- AdrianBallinger.com
- AlpenglowExpeditions.com
- @alpenglowexpeditions on Instagram
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Congrats Adrian on your magnificent achievement on K2 2019!!! Richard A. Sukup, President. Magnolia Global Energy. Fort Worth TX