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The Man Who Cheated Death Twice And Climbed Mount Everest.

Do you have a goal you can’t stop thinking about? Do you have a dream you are yearning to chase, but just don’t know how to make it a reality? Do you keep putting it off until “someday?”

“Someday” is today. The world is ready for you to begin your own journey to success and achieve your dream.

EVEREST: Being Unstoppable, is Book One of the 7 Summits to Success series. This book contains a story of one man’s journey to accomplish what was once thought impossible. Sean Swarner overcame two different cancers to make his dream of climbing Mt. Everest (with one lung), the highest mountain in the world, a reality.

Not many people have enough courage to fight cancer but the story of Sean Swarner is    not less than a miracle.  Recipient of  ‘Don’t Ever Give Up Award’  presented by Jimmy V Foundation and ESPN in 2007, Swarner was twice diagnosed with life threatening cancer. He not only overcame cancer twice but he is also the first cancer survivor to climb Mount Everest.

At age of 13, Swarner of Williard,Ohio was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease which is        a type of lymphoma, in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cells called lymphocytes. When he was diagnosed, he was in the fourth and final stage on the cancer. Doctors declared that he will not able to live for more than three months. But he fought the cancer and survived.

After overcoming his first cancer, in 1990 Swarner was diagnosed with another deadly cancer called Askin’s Sarcoma. A sarcoma is a cancer that arises from transformed cells    of mesenchymal(type of tissue characterized by loosely associated cells that lack polarity) origin.  It is a rare type of cancer.  His right lung  was attacked  by a deadly golf ball-sized tumor.  This left him only with one fully functional lung.  After removal of tumor,  he was expected to live not more than 2 weeks.  But like the first time he again survived.  He also    is believed to be the only person in the world to ever have been diagnosed with both these deadly cancers.

However, he did survive, although he has only one fully functioning lung due to the removal of a golf ball-sized tumor found with the Askin’s diagnoses. He graduated from Willard High School in Willard, Ohio, in 1993, and Westminster College in 1997.

Sean was  featured on ESPN (July 27, 2007)  with a 10-minute segment  on his life story and struggle. He established his own foundation (The Cancer Climber Association) which promotes cancer awareness and helps raise money for cancer research.  He also authored his book Keep Climbing, which recounts his story and journey from the depths of his near death experience to the peaks he climbed to reach the top of the world 17 years later.

He has been voted as one of the world’s top 8 inspiring people of all time. On 16 May, 2002 Sean became first cancer survivor to summit Mount Everest. After climbing Everest, he decided to do more climbing and since then ..;; ascended the highest peaks of all other continents i.e. Europe,  Africa,  North America,  South America,  Australia and Antarctica and completed the 7-Summits.

Seven Summit Schedule

Months

Mountain

Height

Continent

Stage

Description

June to August

Elbrus

18,540

Europe

II

Easy glacier slopes to a high summit

Sept – Oct

Carstensz

16,023

Oceania

II

Easy-Moderate Rock climbing, exotic terrain

Year Round

Kilimanjaro

19,340

Africa

II

Easy-Moderate, non-technical

Dec – Feb

Aconcagua

22,841

South America

III

Expedition style climbing, non-technical

January

Vinson

16,067

Antarctic

III

Arctic, extreme cold, moderate difficulty

May – June

Denali

20,320

North America

IV

Arctic, extreme cold, moderate difficulty

March-May

Everest

29,030

Asia

VI

Extreme altitude expedition climbing

He is also the first cancer survivor to complete the seven summits. On October 11, 2008, Sean completed the Ford Ironman World Championship  in Kailua-Kona. He is author of the book ‘Keep Climbing’ in which he gave an account of his journey from overcoming death to climbing Mount Everest.

Sean is the living proof that cancer patients can and do recover. He is role model from people suffering from cancer and his story will encourage them to never give up. It will also encourage other people that we should never quit in our life. If Sean can survive twice from death, then why can’t we overcome any difficulty which is surely not greater than death.

There are millions of people, who have probably survived cancer. But it is not less than a miracle to survive twice when there was totally no hope of survival and later, making one’s way to climb the highest peak in the world.

Sean Swarner made it all happen after overcoming every odd of life. Sean has not only broken the defined human limitations, but he has redefined the way the world views success, inspiring the people across the globe to challenge the challenges of life.

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Preview YouTube video LIVESTRONG Films: Sean

LIVESTRONG Films: Sean

 Preview Sean Swarner on Surviving Cancer and Climbing Everest

Ep 17: Sean Swarner on Surviving Cancer, Climbing Everest and Hope
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