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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.