All Elite Wrestling’s resident daredevil Darby Allin has realized his dream of climbing Mount Everest. The 32-year-old “pillar of AEW has been off television since December to prepare for the adventure.
He finally reached the top of Everest on Sunday, and fulfilled his promise by bringing an AEW flag with him. He documented the accomplishment on Instagram, writing:
“Mount Everest summit. What a ride thanks @aew for everything in life. Thanks to the amazing team at adventure consultants and the Sherpa squad this shit was wild!”
Allin’s team began the climb last month and their progress was tracked online by the company that organized the excursion.
Why Darby Allin Climbed Mount Everest
Back in December, he spoke with Flickering Myth and revealed his motivation to embark on such an ambitious undertaking.
“That’s why like Mount Everest is so peaceful, the thought of like climbing it. Because when you’re climbing it, you can’t just talk, you can’t waste any energy talking. So it’s just you and your thoughts for like two months climbing that mountain. So you gotta dig deep down inside and really pull out who you are.
From a day-to-day life, you have all these distractions whether it’s your phone or whether it’s TV or whether it’s anything [else] but when you’re alone with your thoughts, that’s when you really find out who you are. You can deal with a lot of problems that you have in your head when you just have to bear with it and you can’t distract yourself.
So I think that sounds, that’s the most fun thing about Mount Everest – it’s very therapeutic.”