Why Mike Posner Is Climbing Mt. Everest for a Cause Essential to His Late Dad: ‘Journey of a Lifetime’

Mike Posner is achieving new heights. (Pretty much.)

The 33-12 months-previous musician is gearing up to climb up Mt. Everest to increase a “chapter” to the guide of his lifetime, and he’s also performing it to honor his late father, who worked as a criminal defense legal professional. Posner opens up to People today (the Tv Exhibit!) about his determination to climb the tallest mountain in the planet and why he’s accomplishing it to assist the Detroit Justice Center.

Likely on a wander throughout The us previous calendar year — where he was bitten by a rattlesnake — “obliterated who I believed I was as a human and what I assumed I was capable of.”

“I recognized I am able of a ton more,” he tells People today. For a yr and a 50 %, Posner has been coaching along with Dr. John Kedrowski ahead of trying to access the mountain’s summit. (So much, he is climbed mountains in Mexico, Ecuador and Pakistan.)

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“I am comfortable with the pitfalls, especially offered the perform I’ve place in,” he claims. “My purpose is to go above there and have pleasurable. This is like a journey of a life time.”

“The point about dangers is we are likely to die anyways. We are all gonna die. My father is useless. Avicii is dead. Mac Miller‘s lifeless. A single working day I’ll be useless. With any luck , not any time shortly,” he provides. “But prior to that occurs, I want to reside. I want to stay my existence. So I’m snug with the risk just after carrying out the exploration.”

In climbing the mountain, he’ll also be supporting the Detroit Justice Center and the work they do in the criminal justice realm — a little something his father was passionate about. (So far, they’ve elevated $70,000 on GoFundMe for the business.)

“I was just blown away by the perform they are doing,” he says. “I’m from Detroit and I want to support make it a superior area or empower the individuals that are creating it a much better position. But concurrently, I can honor my dad.”

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The singer says the journey will possible take two months. And just after? The “Cooler Than Me” singer hopes to commit some time self-reflecting for a many weeks at a monastery in Colorado.

“I just require to stop and do definitely nothing — with out my cell phone, without having any human interaction. And then I sort of figure out what I want to do subsequent,” he states. “Which is my immediately after-get together, dude. No champagne, no strippers.”

This new challenge for Posner is just a person a lot more in his long list of accomplishments and targets he hopes to accomplish.

“I have a ton of life to dwell. I have a good deal of new music to make, a good deal of desires however,” he says.