Darby Allin is serious about taking on Mount Everest.
Earlier in May, the star told TMZ that he planned to be the first wrestler to climb the tallest mountain in the world.
“A thing that I’m going to be doing next year that no wrestler has ever done before is climb Mount Everest. You heard it here first.”
While it seemed like a throwaway comment at the time, the daredevil star has gone into more detail during an appearance on the ‘Drinks with Johnny’ podcast.
Allin says he’s excited to do it and is working with a coach with the aim to do it in 2024.
“I’m excited for that, I’m excited for everything, life’s really awesome right now. I’m excited to go climb Mount Everest next year. I got like a coach and everything that we were talking about.
“I have to wait until April and May because that’s the only hiking season right now. You can only climb it between April and May.
“Once you connect with a team that like sets everything up, they kind of handle everything. You just give them your information and s**t.
“So I’ve been talking to one guy who has sumitted it before, and he’s climbed to base camp a bunch of other times, but he’s put me in touch with a bunch of people, and we want to most likely document the whole thing. Like some type of team from Discovery.”
Darby Allin faces the AEW Pillars at Double or Nothing
Before he can get to Everest, Allin has another mountain to climb at Double or Nothing.
There, he will take on ‘Jungle Boy’ Jack Perry, Sammy Guevara, and MJF as he attempts to win the World Championship for the first time in a Four-way Match pitting the four pillars of the company against each other.
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the above transcription.