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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation and over eight thousand meters above

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Speaker 1: sea level. The K two is the second highest mountain

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Speaker 1: on Earth after Mount Everest. It might just be the deadliest.

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Speaker 1: I think it's even more deadly than Mount Everest. There's

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Speaker 1: only one man crazy enough to ascend on these most

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Speaker 1: perilous journey yet to find. Crazy At Middleton has documented

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Speaker 1: all this in a new show, Killer K two and

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Speaker 1: Hello here.

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Speaker 2: He is listen. Always a pleasure, pleasure to see you guys.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: We're great, mate, It's good to see you again. This.

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Speaker 2: Thank you mate, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: This mountain. I've read about this mountain. It's deadly, it's perilous,

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Speaker 1: it's hard going. Where's the pleasure.

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Speaker 2: There's no pleasure in it. And I certainly didn't take

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Speaker 2: any pleasure in climbing it because I only had a

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Speaker 2: little period. I had a four week period to climb it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I could have gone. I could have gone on holiday

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Speaker 2: with the family. Yes, I got this. Literally got a

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Speaker 2: three week notice. My power called me up. He said, Aunt,

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Speaker 2: do you want to climb a mountain? I said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I do want to climb. I said, I'm due a climb.

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Speaker 2: He said, well, in three weeks time on climbing K two,

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Speaker 2: Do you want to climb it with me? So my

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Speaker 2: wife was actually out shopping at the time, so I

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Speaker 2: made the decision. I sort of called his bluff. I

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Speaker 2: said to him, yep, let's do it. He says, send

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Speaker 2: me your passport, and so I sent my pass word.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think much of it. I didn't think he's

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Speaker 2: going to put it off anyway. Within about two hours

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Speaker 2: of the phone call, he came back with my clearance

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Speaker 2: that I could climb. I could literally get on the mountain.

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Speaker 2: So I had to book my tickets to Pakistan thereafter too,

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Speaker 2: And then within three weeks I found myself climbing K two,

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Speaker 2: which is the second highest mountain in the world, but

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Speaker 2: the most dangerous.

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Speaker 1: So how do you train? Do you train for something

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Speaker 1: like that?

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Speaker 2: I don't because I like to think I was putting

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Speaker 2: my ego's No, But I like to think that throughout

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Speaker 2: my military career that you know, climbing and hiking, I

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Speaker 2: was in mountain troops and my very experienced climber. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: that it's more of a psychological journey for me, more

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Speaker 2: of a psychological sort of battle for me, rather than

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Speaker 2: the physical side. So training, know, but I would definitely

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Speaker 2: recommend if you're gonna, you know, hit altitude, yes, you

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Speaker 2: definitely train.

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Speaker 4: And altitude sickness it doesn't it's it's non discriminated, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It just it just picks anyone.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how fit you are. You know you

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Speaker 2: experience that you've got if you don't acclimatize correctly. Now,

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Speaker 2: I would say anything above three and a half thousand

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Speaker 2: you've got to push it slowly in order for your

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Speaker 2: body to dial into the lack of oxygen, because that's

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Speaker 2: what's happening. The higher you get less oxygen in the air.

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Speaker 2: Therefore the body has to acclimatize and get used to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the What was the hardest part for

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Speaker 1: you all? The scariest part because the topography must have

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was the with K two. The reason why

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Speaker 2: it's so dangerous is because it's literally the steepest and technical,

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Speaker 2: so there's no let up. You know, you can't. But

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Speaker 2: also all the camps are aligned where for example, Mount Everest.

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Speaker 2: The camps are sort of you know, are not aligned

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Speaker 2: in one line when you go up, but on K

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Speaker 2: two they are. So if you've got climbers in front

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Speaker 2: momentum from thousands of meters and this is snow, this

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Speaker 4: So Ever, it's just for pussies. And now you I

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Speaker 4: watched you on Dancing with the Stars. Can I say this?

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Speaker 3: You surprise me of how good you were on Dancing

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Speaker 1: Are you in that unit of the army as well.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about but Dancing with the Stars isn't.

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Speaker 4: Amanda's absolutely devastated that essays Australia is not coming back

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Speaker 4: because she was ready to go.

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Speaker 2: I was coming back, yes, Brendan. All I'm saying. All

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Speaker 2: I'm going to say is it's not we've had it.

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Speaker 2: Put it this way, we just had a year off.

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Speaker 2: That's all I'm going to say. So will we be

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Speaker 2: filming next year? I would say a high probability that

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Speaker 2: we will be filming a new series.

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Speaker 3: That's good for you, Amanda. Yes, you.

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Speaker 2: Know what is funny because as soon as people thought

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Speaker 2: do that. So I'm just taking notes. Amanda your name?

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Speaker 1: Can I ask with when you're filming something like this

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Speaker 3: Through there.

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Speaker 1: How did you go about doing it?

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Speaker 2: So I climb just for myself and two sirpas. I've

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Speaker 2: got a Peter Jackson one of the No, he's not.

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Speaker 2: That would be entertainment. So I go with a very

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Speaker 2: small team and the shirpers that I use a good

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Speaker 2: Gurkha before he was a.

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Speaker 3: Before he was a sherpa. Where do you go after that?

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Speaker 2: You can become a burper, so you mix it up.

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Speaker 2: There you go burper, will will invent a new role

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Speaker 1: Did they help you film it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So that's what I've done. I literally filmed it POV.

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Speaker 2: A lot of it's you know, just got go pros,

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Speaker 2: We've got cameras. But then I just chucked my shirpers,

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Speaker 2: and just said capture what you can and believe it

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Speaker 2: or not. We captured so much footage, and what we

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Speaker 2: really concentrated on on this documentary was was the suffering,

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Speaker 2: was the emotional journey. Because I could I could have

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Speaker 2: summit and I've got chess dout and I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this was, you know, successful, But we we chose the

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Speaker 2: bits that were really sort of where vulnerability was there

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Speaker 2: because the emotional rollercoaster of it, because once you hit altitude,

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Speaker 2: the lack of oxygen to the brain, it triggers emotional

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Speaker 2: So we sort of captured that side with Killer K

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Speaker 2: to the vulnerability, the emotional roller coaster that it was,

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Speaker 2: and back down again. Taken into account of people put

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Speaker 2: six to eight weeks aside for this.

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Speaker 3: And who yelled at you? Did you yell at yourself?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So you just go, that's not how you climb a mountain.

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Speaker 2: Grabbing my ear and putting myself mountain. Have a word

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Speaker 2: with myself. Imagine Amanda was behind me that mountain.

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Speaker 3: Boy. Well, I've got all the paperwork for Amanda. Here,

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Speaker 3: she's ready to go. I'd rather do K two.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I don't blame you, Amanda.

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Speaker 3: And it's great to talk to you again.

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Speaker 4: Killer K two with Aunt Middleton premiers Thursday, the twenty

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Speaker 4: fourth of October on seven Plus.

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Speaker 3: It's just always great to see you.

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Speaker 2: There are always a pleasure to come in and that's

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Speaker 2: why I love coming in. I actually flew in yesterday

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Speaker 2: last night, late last night, and they were like do

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Speaker 2: you want to go on Josie and Amanda.

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Speaker 3: I was like, yes, you didn't even have to yell

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Speaker 3: at himself for that. It was happening.

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Speaker 2: That's happening. Ready to We're.

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Speaker 3: Happy for you to summit our north face.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 3: Climbing talk.

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Speaker 2: Climbing talk is it is climbing talk and I love it.

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Speaker 3: There you d