Allin speaks about the training he’s been through ahead of the climb.
Dating back to 2023, Darby Allin has had the idea in mind to climb Mount Everest. Those plans are in place and this spring, the plans are coming to fruition.
Ahead of his trek up Mount Everest, Allin is going to be defending the AEW World Tag Team Championships alongside Sting against The Young Bucks (Nicholas & Matthew Jackson) at Revolution in what is being billed as Sting’s final match.
Allin told the Battleground Podcast that it’ll be interesting to transition back into a solo role after Sting retires. He added that climbing Mount Everest is a way for him to get back into that mindset and feels he’ll be a ‘different beast’ afterwards.
I’m gonna get a big ass scorpion tattoo on my face (to honor Sting after he retires). No, no, no (that’s not me being serious).
I think it’s gonna be really interesting after that because I forgot what life was like before Sting. He’s just always been there now and that’s why I’m kind of going on that vision quest after he hangs up the boots and go climb Mount Everest and kind of remind myself what I’m capable of when I do dig deep down inside and I’m just gonna have a lot of time on that mountain to remind myself exactly who Darby Allin is and what I’m capable of and once I come back down, I’m gonna be a whole different beast and I’m looking forward to it. But, I feel like right now is the perfect time for Sting to retire. He’s been rocking so let’s just end it while we’re hot.
He opened up about his training for the climb. Allin signed up with Adventure Consultants and they told him that he was prepared to climb Mount Everest after making it through their rigorous training program. He said the only thing that’ll stop him is an avalanche.
I don’t think anybody will truly understand how hard this has been. If everyone thinks I’m super reckless and I just go to Mount Everest with zero mountain experience. So I signed up with a company. The idea came late last spring so I signed up with a company called Adventure Consultants. They’re like the premiere Mount Everest climbing group and then I said, ‘I wanna climb Mount Everest!’ And they’re like, ‘Do you have any experience climbing?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely not’ and then they go, they’re like, ‘Well, the next climbing is happening April so you got six months to train for the biggest mountain in the world with zero mountain experience, on top of all the crazy stuff you do in the ring and outside the ring. We’re gonna be honest, we don’t think you’re capable of that’ and I said, ‘Alright, well put me up to the test. Any training program you have, let’s go’ and I flew to so many different countries and so many different mountains I’ve climbed. It’s been gnarly, it’s been so gnarly. I could talk for an hour about what happened on those mountains and how gnarly — people were coughing up blood, crapping their pants. Meanwhile, I felt completely fine. I was just tired and then there’s people that climb mountains that are throwing up blood, all this stuff and they’re like, ‘What’s your secret?’ And I was like, ‘I honestly have no idea. It’s like what I put my body through for my whole life and it got me ready for these moments like that.’ So, it’s been crazy but, by the end of the training, I finished everything with flying colors and they told me, ‘You have what it takes to climb Mount Everest.’ So the only thing that’s gonna stop me is either an avalanche or a Yeti. So, we’ll see.
The 2/28 Dynamite is going to be Sting’s final appearance on the Wednesday night program. POST Wrestling is going to be reviewing the show at this link.
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