TFM96: Road To Aconcagua: Luther's Training Journey (So Far)

Then before we started working together, what was your typical approach to training when it came to these adventures?

Yeah, I think with what I've learned since we've been together, we'd call it a shotgun approach.

I was one of those guys that would go on YouTube or go on the internet, you know, and let's go back to when YouTube was still pretty young and you'd get an idea and try it.

But It was very unorganized.

And, you know, I would try things.

I would do some things.

I was motivated, but I was very unorganized.

And so when we get to what we talk about where I'm at now, I just realized when we got together last August that I needed someone to help me organize and give me a plan to follow because I'm really good at that.

So, yeah, unorganized and shotgun would be the best way to describe my previous training.

I can't help that.

And then when, before, I guess, when we first started chatting or before we started chatting, what was, what was the big goal that, or big goals that you've set yourself for yourself with this mountaineering? And what was the instigator of these particular goals?

Yeah, that's interesting.

Um, I think I'll start with the instigator in 2015.

I, when I did Kilimanjaro the first time, um, I was adventuring in Africa before I went there and, um, was with a guy and he's like, hey, my mom is training to climb Kilimanjaro.

And I'm like, I remember sitting by that campfire.

He's like, that's a really good idea.

And I just knew I had to do that.

And so in August of 2015, I joined a group.

No friends or anything, but I was alone.

You meet friends on the trip.

And as I summited Kilimanjaro that August, I just knew.

Coming down, you know, that's a long trek down through that screen all the way down.

It's a long day.

I just knew.

And I think before we got to the trailhead, I just knew I was going to Argentina someday.