Speaker 1: He's a former UK Special Forces soldier turned sas Australia
Speaker 1: Chief instructor. You can't calk.
Speaker 2: Few, but what you can do is harnessing.
Speaker 1: If he's not dancing with the stars.
Speaker 2: I'm screaming and shouting at the recruits. Now my partner
Speaker 2: is screaming, is shouting at me, and.
Speaker 1: Is scaling the world's largest peaks.
Speaker 2: You know you're going to be very near dead bodies.
Speaker 1: This could be me and now climbing the most dangerous
Speaker 1: mountain in the world.
Speaker 2: He to the danger is really what enticed me.
Speaker 3: The head of.
Speaker 1: Killer K two's premier on seven Plus next Thursday, and
Speaker 1: fresh from running into him at the Radio Awards in
Speaker 1: Sydney last weekend, Please welcome and Middleton.
Speaker 2: Good morning guys. How are you?
Speaker 1: Can I say something about you? And you have a
Speaker 1: fierce reputation given what you do on sas right and
Speaker 1: the way you can confront these celebrities and bring out
Speaker 1: the best of them is wonderful. When I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: he's so fearsome, and then you were in reception when
Speaker 1: we arrived at the hotel. We've never met before and
Speaker 1: you greeted me with the biggest smile and half an embrace,
Speaker 1: and I was like, like, you're the nicest person.
Speaker 2: Of all time.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do, so I started doing pushups. Yeah,
Speaker 3: good plan.
Speaker 2: I was wondering why you're doing those push ups. No, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's who I am. You know, when I'm running a
Speaker 2: military course or military style sort of event, then you
Speaker 2: know it has to be serious because the military is
Speaker 2: a serious organization. You know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: we go and do things that we don't necessarily want
Speaker 2: to do or or enjoy doing, but we need to
Speaker 2: do it. So when you see me on sas, a
Speaker 2: lot of people when they meet me in real life,
Speaker 2: they think I'm going to be screaming and shouting at people,
Speaker 2: and it's the complete opposite.
Speaker 1: And this was the conversation on Saturday Night, Hazy. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you recall, but you were saying, oh,
Speaker 1: my friend Cane Horns wants to go on the show,
Speaker 1: and he'd be amazing and there's no way, and you
Speaker 1: were like, I'd break him within three days.
Speaker 2: It was quite funny as well, because I meet some
Speaker 2: of the celebrities that don't even know they're coming on
Speaker 2: the course, and they're all joking and laughing around with me,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden I meet them on
Speaker 2: the course and they look at me and go hi, ANT,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, who are you calling? ANT? Start to you,
Speaker 2: and then then you see them like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm actually in and on the course. Yeah. So yeah,
Speaker 2: don't be surprised if that smile turns upside down. See
Speaker 2: me next.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have to say to my husband sort of
Speaker 1: was chatting to you for a little while, and he
Speaker 1: confided in me afterwards, he goes Jones. I was so
Speaker 1: close to saying to Aunt, you're a dead ringer for
Speaker 1: Aunt Middleton. And then someone actually came up and said
Speaker 1: hey Aunt, and he's.
Speaker 2: Like, oh my god, it him.
Speaker 1: He just thought you're a radio.
Speaker 2: Person, right, did he? Yea is yeah, because I was yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: The worst result was if you said to you, you're
Speaker 3: actually a poor man's Aunt Middleton.
Speaker 1: You look like Middleton, but not as good looking.
Speaker 2: Shorter shorter Middleton. There's a lot of people seeming there
Speaker 2: like they sort of looked me up and down, and
Speaker 2: you know they think that I'm six foot two and
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm five for eight. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: I know they want to say something and I sort
Speaker 2: of give them the death stare and I'm like, don't
Speaker 2: you dare I am vertically changed. Yes, No, I keep
Speaker 2: that to myself.
Speaker 1: We've digressed very very much so in this interview. But
Speaker 1: Killer K two with Aunt Middleton tell us about that place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, K two is the second highest mountain in the world,
Speaker 2: but the most dangerous and the most technical of the
Speaker 2: eight thousanders. After I completed everes Ince twenty eighteen, sort
Speaker 2: of the next one was was K two, And when
Speaker 2: you climb K two, it sort of solidifies you as
Speaker 2: a mountaineer. So when I got the call to go
Speaker 2: and do it, I literally had the three weeks not
Speaker 2: climb with myself and two sirpas, and we just sort
Speaker 2: of self filmed everything to the point where when we
Speaker 2: look back at the footage, there was a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, celebratory moments, you know, when you're there and
Speaker 2: you're feeling strong. But I realized there was a lot
Speaker 2: of emotional moments. There was a lot of moments where
Speaker 2: I was vulnerable. I was in a bad way emotionally
Speaker 2: and psychologically. So we thought, do you know what, We're
Speaker 2: going to put a documentary together where we're going to
Speaker 2: show how tough high altitude climbing is and what it
Speaker 2: does to the mind and what it does to your emotions,
Speaker 2: and especially with myself. I climbed it in nineteen days unacclimatized,
Speaker 2: and people put, you know, five to seven weeks aside
Speaker 2: to climb any of the eight thousanders, you know, because
Speaker 2: you have to acclimatize correctly. So when it comes out
Speaker 2: in the twenty fourth of October on seven plus, you're
Speaker 2: going to see quite a quite a hardcore and emotional
Speaker 2: journey that I go on.
Speaker 1: And after Saturday night, Andrew he's felt like he'd climbed
Speaker 1: the mountain and been through an emotional journey.
Speaker 2: And connect with you and fell from the top all
Speaker 2: the way to the bottom, stumbled down big snowball.
Speaker 3: Took it, took you bugger all there. It took me
Speaker 3: three hours to get that top front And thank you
Speaker 3: so much for journey us mate. Can I just say
Speaker 3: as well, I don't want to embarrass you, but it's
Speaker 3: actually really nice to say to my mates back in
Speaker 3: Adelaide that I got to meet Aunt and he's as
Speaker 3: big a legend as we hoped for.
Speaker 2: In the flesh so cheers mate, You guys are legends.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Thank you so much.