Allin also expressed what it meant for him to go out of his way to do something like climbing Mount Everest. For him, a large part of the appeal is self-discovery, in whatever form it may come. He also expressed gratitude that he’s in the prime of his career and yet AEW gave him the time off to go and do something like climbing Everest.

“There’s no off season. It’s all year around for who knows how [long]. Then … by the time you get out of the hamster wheel, you realize, ‘Oh, there’s so much I wanted to do with my life that I couldn’t do!’ Because you’re trying to make the fans happy, the TV happy, all this stuff happy, but at the end of the day you’re not making yourself happy.”

“Everybody assumes I’m just an adrenaline junkie, but that’s so not the case!” Allin added, explaining that climbing Everest was the most slow and tedious thing he’s ever done. The AEW star noted that seeing dead bodies made him consider that he might not make it, and admitted that coming down the summit made him blackout and wonder if he was dying. “Am I tired or am I dying? You can’t tell… So, yeah, I’d say my heart was pounding at that rate!”

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