Talking at TED - My Vertical World
I am a fellow at TED this year and a well meaning friend suggested that I must talk about it. In a lark I wrote the following address of mine at the TED which would happen only in November 2009. I have no idea if I would be speaking there at all or if I do what I would be saying, but the following piece pretty much sums up my thoughts and here it is. Hence this is a speech that has not happened yet and may never happen. Enjoy... Good morning friends! I am 45 and for the last 34 years I have been climbing and traveling around the globe seeking new challenges and methods to kill myself. It’s a wonder that I am still here while more than 70% of my friends are not. During my global gallivanting I managed to climb Mt Everest and some of the highest peaks in the world along with the highest summits of all the seven continents and countless others. Horizontally I skied to the North and the South Pole and across the world’s longest and biggest glaciers and ice caps. I have been mostly traversi...