October 10, 2024 • 7 mins
Our good friend Ant Middleton joins Jonesy & Amanda for an incredible chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation and over eight thousand meters above
sea level. The K two is the second highest mountain
on Earth after Mount Everest. It might just be the deadliest.
I think it's even more deadly than Mount Everest. There's
only one man crazy enough to ascend on these most
perilous journey yet to find. Crazy At Middleton has documented
(00:22):
all this in a new show, Killer K two and
Hello here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
He is listen. Always a pleasure, pleasure to see you guys.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're great, mate, It's good to see you again. This.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thank you mate, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This mountain. I've read about this mountain. It's deadly, it's perilous,
it's hard going. Where's the pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
There's no pleasure in it. And I certainly didn't take
any pleasure in climbing it because I only had a
little period. I had a four week period to climb it. Yeah,
I could have gone. I could have gone on holiday
with the family. Yes, I got this. Literally got a
three week notice. My power called me up. He said, Aunt,
do you want to climb a mountain? I said, yeah,
I do want to climb. I said, I'm due a climb.
(00:59):
He said, well, in three weeks time on climbing K two,
Do you want to climb it with me? So my
wife was actually out shopping at the time, so I
made the decision. I sort of called his bluff. I
said to him, yep, let's do it. He says, send
me your passport, and so I sent my pass word.
I didn't think much of it. I didn't think he's
going to put it off anyway. Within about two hours
of the phone call, he came back with my clearance
(01:20):
that I could climb. I could literally get on the mountain.
So I had to book my tickets to Pakistan thereafter too,
And then within three weeks I found myself climbing K two,
which is the second highest mountain in the world, but
the most dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So how do you train? Do you train for something
like that?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't because I like to think I was putting
my ego's No, But I like to think that throughout
my military career that you know, climbing and hiking, I
was in mountain troops and my very experienced climber. Anyway,
that it's more of a psychological journey for me, more
of a psychological sort of battle for me, rather than
the physical side. So training, know, but I would definitely
(02:02):
recommend if you're gonna, you know, hit altitude, yes, you
definitely train.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And altitude sickness it doesn't it's it's non discriminated, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It just it just picks anyone.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It doesn't matter how fit you are. You know you
experience that you've got if you don't acclimatize correctly. Now,
I would say anything above three and a half thousand
meters three five hundred meters, you've got to know what
you're doing. You've got to listen to your body, and
you've got to push it slowly in order for your
body to dial into the lack of oxygen, because that's
(02:31):
what's happening. The higher you get less oxygen in the air.
Therefore the body has to acclimatize and get used to it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, what was the What was the hardest part for
you all? The scariest part because the topography must have
been terrifying.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, it was the with K two. The reason why
it's so dangerous is because it's literally the steepest and technical,
so there's no let up. You know, you can't. But
also all the camps are aligned where for example, Mount Everest.
The camps are sort of you know, are not aligned
in one line when you go up, but on K
two they are. So if you've got climbers in front
(03:06):
of you and they knock any rocks off aejevity so
like bullets flying past you because they pick up the
momentum from thousands of meters and this is snow, this
is rock. So the danger of being hit and potentially
being you know, thrown off that mountain by by snow
or rocks is high.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So Ever, it's just for pussies. And now you I
watched you on Dancing with the Stars. Can I say this?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You surprise me of how good you were on Dancing
with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Are you in that unit of the army as well.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We're talking about but Dancing with the Stars isn't.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Amanda's absolutely devastated that essays Australia is not coming back
because she was ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was coming back, yes, Brendan. All I'm saying. All
I'm going to say is it's not we've had it.
Put it this way, we just had a year off.
That's all I'm going to say. So will we be
filming next year? I would say a high probability that
we will be filming a new series.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's good for you, Amanda. Yes, you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Know what is funny because as soon as people thought
that it wasn't coming back though, I was going to
do that. So I'm just taking notes. Amanda your name?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Can I ask with when you're filming something like this
about climbing a mountain? I know people sort of make
fun of big grills. I'm out here alone and there's
a ten.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Through there.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
How did you go about doing it?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So I climb just for myself and two sirpas. I've
got a Peter Jackson one of the No, he's not.
That would be entertainment. So I go with a very
small team and the shirpers that I use a good
friends of mine. I've climbing them before and one of
(04:59):
them was in the military. For myself, he was a
Gurkha before he was a.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Before he was a sherpa. Where do you go after that?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You can become a burper, so you mix it up.
There you go burper, will will invent a new role
for someone.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Did they help you film it?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yes, So that's what I've done. I literally filmed it POV.
A lot of it's you know, just got go pros,
We've got cameras. But then I just chucked my shirpers,
you know, just chucked them in a couple of cameras
and just said capture what you can and believe it
or not. We captured so much footage, and what we
really concentrated on on this documentary was was the suffering,
(05:37):
was the emotional journey. Because I could I could have
put out a documentary like Everest where I hit the
summit and I've got chess dout and I'm like, yeah,
this was, you know, successful, But we we chose the
bits that were really sort of where vulnerability was there
because the emotional rollercoaster of it, because once you hit altitude,
(05:57):
the lack of oxygen to the brain, it triggers emotional
responses and you become really emotional, believe it or not.
So we sort of captured that side with Killer K
to the vulnerability, the emotional roller coaster that it was,
and the time scale I only had when I hit
a base camp K two base camp, I only had
(06:18):
twenty or twenty two days to get to the summit
and back down again. Taken into account of people put
six to eight weeks aside for this.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And who yelled at you? Did you yell at yourself?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So you just go, that's not how you climb a mountain.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Grabbing my ear and putting myself mountain. Have a word
with myself. Imagine Amanda was behind me that mountain.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Boy. Well, I've got all the paperwork for Amanda. Here,
she's ready to go. I'd rather do K two.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Actually, I don't blame you, Amanda.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And it's great to talk to you again.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Killer K two with Aunt Middleton premiers Thursday, the twenty
fourth of October on seven Plus.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's just always great to see you.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
There are always a pleasure to come in and that's
why I love coming in. I actually flew in yesterday
last night, late last night, and they were like do
you want to go on Josie and Amanda.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I was like, yes, you didn't even have to yell
at himself for that. It was happening.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's happening. Ready to We're.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Happy for you to summit our north face.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Climbing talk.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Climbing talk is it is climbing talk and I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
There you d
And Amanda gam Nation and over eight thousand meters above
sea level. The K two is the second highest mountain
on Earth after Mount Everest. It might just be the deadliest.
I think it's even more deadly than Mount Everest. There's
only one man crazy enough to ascend on these most
perilous journey yet to find. Crazy At Middleton has documented
(00:22):
all this in a new show, Killer K two and
Hello here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
He is listen. Always a pleasure, pleasure to see you guys.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're great, mate, It's good to see you again. This.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Thank you mate, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This mountain. I've read about this mountain. It's deadly, it's perilous,
it's hard going. Where's the pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
There's no pleasure in it. And I certainly didn't take
any pleasure in climbing it because I only had a
little period. I had a four week period to climb it. Yeah,
I could have gone. I could have gone on holiday
with the family. Yes, I got this. Literally got a
three week notice. My power called me up. He said, Aunt,
do you want to climb a mountain? I said, yeah,
I do want to climb. I said, I'm due a climb.
(00:59):
He said, well, in three weeks time on climbing K two,
Do you want to climb it with me? So my
wife was actually out shopping at the time, so I
made the decision. I sort of called his bluff. I
said to him, yep, let's do it. He says, send
me your passport, and so I sent my pass word.
I didn't think much of it. I didn't think he's
going to put it off anyway. Within about two hours
of the phone call, he came back with my clearance
(01:20):
that I could climb. I could literally get on the mountain.
So I had to book my tickets to Pakistan thereafter too,
And then within three weeks I found myself climbing K two,
which is the second highest mountain in the world, but
the most dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So how do you train? Do you train for something
like that?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't because I like to think I was putting
my ego's No, But I like to think that throughout
my military career that you know, climbing and hiking, I
was in mountain troops and my very experienced climber. Anyway,
that it's more of a psychological journey for me, more
of a psychological sort of battle for me, rather than
the physical side. So training, know, but I would definitely
(02:02):
recommend if you're gonna, you know, hit altitude, yes, you
definitely train.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And altitude sickness it doesn't it's it's non discriminated, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It just it just picks anyone.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It doesn't matter how fit you are. You know you
experience that you've got if you don't acclimatize correctly. Now,
I would say anything above three and a half thousand
meters three five hundred meters, you've got to know what
you're doing. You've got to listen to your body, and
you've got to push it slowly in order for your
body to dial into the lack of oxygen, because that's
(02:31):
what's happening. The higher you get less oxygen in the air.
Therefore the body has to acclimatize and get used to it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, what was the What was the hardest part for
you all? The scariest part because the topography must have
been terrifying.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, it was the with K two. The reason why
it's so dangerous is because it's literally the steepest and technical,
so there's no let up. You know, you can't. But
also all the camps are aligned where for example, Mount Everest.
The camps are sort of you know, are not aligned
in one line when you go up, but on K
two they are. So if you've got climbers in front
(03:06):
of you and they knock any rocks off aejevity so
like bullets flying past you because they pick up the
momentum from thousands of meters and this is snow, this
is rock. So the danger of being hit and potentially
being you know, thrown off that mountain by by snow
or rocks is high.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So Ever, it's just for pussies. And now you I
watched you on Dancing with the Stars. Can I say this?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You surprise me of how good you were on Dancing
with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Are you in that unit of the army as well.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We're talking about but Dancing with the Stars isn't.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Amanda's absolutely devastated that essays Australia is not coming back
because she was ready to go.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was coming back, yes, Brendan. All I'm saying. All
I'm going to say is it's not we've had it.
Put it this way, we just had a year off.
That's all I'm going to say. So will we be
filming next year? I would say a high probability that
we will be filming a new series.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's good for you, Amanda. Yes, you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Know what is funny because as soon as people thought
that it wasn't coming back though, I was going to
do that. So I'm just taking notes. Amanda your name?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Can I ask with when you're filming something like this
about climbing a mountain? I know people sort of make
fun of big grills. I'm out here alone and there's
a ten.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Through there.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
How did you go about doing it?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So I climb just for myself and two sirpas. I've
got a Peter Jackson one of the No, he's not.
That would be entertainment. So I go with a very
small team and the shirpers that I use a good
friends of mine. I've climbing them before and one of
(04:59):
them was in the military. For myself, he was a
Gurkha before he was a.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Before he was a sherpa. Where do you go after that?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You can become a burper, so you mix it up.
There you go burper, will will invent a new role
for someone.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Did they help you film it?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yes, So that's what I've done. I literally filmed it POV.
A lot of it's you know, just got go pros,
We've got cameras. But then I just chucked my shirpers,
you know, just chucked them in a couple of cameras
and just said capture what you can and believe it
or not. We captured so much footage, and what we
really concentrated on on this documentary was was the suffering,
(05:37):
was the emotional journey. Because I could I could have
put out a documentary like Everest where I hit the
summit and I've got chess dout and I'm like, yeah,
this was, you know, successful, But we we chose the
bits that were really sort of where vulnerability was there
because the emotional rollercoaster of it, because once you hit altitude,
(05:57):
the lack of oxygen to the brain, it triggers emotional
responses and you become really emotional, believe it or not.
So we sort of captured that side with Killer K
to the vulnerability, the emotional roller coaster that it was,
and the time scale I only had when I hit
a base camp K two base camp, I only had
(06:18):
twenty or twenty two days to get to the summit
and back down again. Taken into account of people put
six to eight weeks aside for this.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And who yelled at you? Did you yell at yourself?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So you just go, that's not how you climb a mountain.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Grabbing my ear and putting myself mountain. Have a word
with myself. Imagine Amanda was behind me that mountain.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Boy. Well, I've got all the paperwork for Amanda. Here,
she's ready to go. I'd rather do K two.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Actually, I don't blame you, Amanda.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And it's great to talk to you again.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Killer K two with Aunt Middleton premiers Thursday, the twenty
fourth of October on seven Plus.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's just always great to see you.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
There are always a pleasure to come in and that's
why I love coming in. I actually flew in yesterday
last night, late last night, and they were like do
you want to go on Josie and Amanda.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I was like, yes, you didn't even have to yell
at himself for that. It was happening.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's happening. Ready to We're.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Happy for you to summit our north face.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Climbing talk.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Climbing talk is it is climbing talk and I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
There you d
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