Mike Posner Suggests Everest Motivation Was Fear of Staying ‘Fat, Old White Guy’

Mike Posner let anxiety drive him to train for months to climb Mount Everest, but his anxiety had very little to do with really scaling Earth’s tallest mountain — as an alternative, he was far more fearful of NOT undertaking it.

The EDM star explained to us all about his epic experience when he joined us Tuesday on “TMZ Reside” … explaining that the strategy to deal with Everest to start with came to him 2 weeks just after finishing his epic 2019 trek across the United States.

As a substitute of kicking again immediately after that accomplishment, Mike says he found himself terrified he’d wake up a person day a “body fat, old, white man” who’d only carried out just one amazing detail — that 6-thirty day period stroll from NJ to Cali. Having to the 28,000-foot Himalayan summit would surely choose treatment of that problem!!!

And, he suggests the climb was truly tougher than he considered it would be … primarily mentally. Reality is, several mountain climbers — some way a lot more skilled than Posner — die making an attempt to conquer Everest … so he was swift to give props to the people who served him get it completed.

Mike explained to us he’s ecstatic to be back again a great deal closer to sea amount, and grateful his Everest journey assisted increase about $230k, and counting, for the Detroit Justice Centre.