It is a resistance peak.
A New Jersey army veteran with a lung is defining all the probabilities by climbing the highest mountain in Indonesia and two other peaks next week, after an exhausting rise to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro last year.
Adam Faatz, 37, will accumulate the Carstensz pyramid of 16,024 feet on April 22, even though the left lung was removed due to pulmonary fibrosis.
“Mountainism, for me, and the outdoors is probably what saved my life,” said Faatz or Hawthorne, NJ, who had a mental health battle uphill after his diagnosis, he told the post recently.
“It is good for my well -being. It is my departure. I want to try to encourage people to go and try challenges like this, not let their disabilities or diseases limit them.”
He plans to climb Mount Agung of 9,944 feet of the island’s nations on April 18, followed by Mount Rinjani, the 12,224 feet volcano, the next day, giving its 10 -day trip.
Faatz, who joined the army as an 18 -year -old in 2006, suffered pulmonary scars after the inhalation of toxic fumes of a “burning well” while serving in Iraq.
Duration of its deployment of 2009, had the task of finding and demolishing bombs on the road, and ended up sailing frequently in the toxic vapors of the smoke well, he said.
“They call them today, Orange’s modern agent, everything and everything, basically, the military would be destroyed in that burning well,” he said. “You have chemicals, you have body fluids, rubber, paint,” he said.
After years of pain and mishagtosis, a New York doctor discovered that his left lung was covered with scar tissue in November 2018.
“They ended almost removing all the left lung,” he said. “It was working.”
In 2021, they went outdoors along with the therapy to get help to recover from “a real decline in terms of mental health,” he said.
“I was very just fighting what was happening with [my] Lungs and all these medical things, “he said.” I had known for a long time that I needed help. “
After being hospitalized and receiving treatment, his childhood love for wildlife inspired him to climb the highest peak of New York, Mount Marcy, in December 2021.
“I wanted to do something for pulmonary fibrosis to create some kind of consciousness,” he said that an impulse in endorphins also helped him feel better.
“Let’s be realistic, coming from the army and all that, I see, you know, adrenaline and dangerous situations,” he said.
Faatz’s goal is to complete the seven summits, climbing the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.
He finished his first peak in January 2024, when he went up to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest independent mountain in the world, in nine days.
In recent months, Faatz has been training seven days a week, a machine that simulates great altitude, up to 20,000 feet, to prepare for its daring increases in Indonesia. Hi also walks more than 50 miles per week with your dog, taco, and makes pilates and weights.
“Mountaineering is resistance training. It’s not about how strong you can be. It’s about how long you can go,” he said.
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Faatz, which one day may need a lung transplant, said it is doing the daring increases to raise awareness about the disease little understood.
“I wanted to make it a family name,” he said.