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Thigh and that was the moment when i went, okay, she's going to need to be shaken up. >> he approached me with the idea of climbing the hardest of the seven summits, carson's pyramid. we oftentimes joke because his first big mountain was everett. >> 2001, riding my harley, boom. next thing i knew i was in a trauma center. my vehicle for recovery was mountain climbing, 2009. watching television and this veteran got up and burned beyond recognition and it was like this light bulb hit. i'm not going to climb for tim anymore. i'm going to climb for other people and show them the path that got me t...

This is so exciting to share this with you. cnn asked several of our anchors to feature an organization that really inspires us, challenges us and changes us, and i knew instantly who i wanted to interview, the heros project. this is this awesome organization that combines several of my passions, mountain climbing, helping our nation's veterans and just being a bad ass. the heroos project founder features vets who come home facing amputation and ask them from their hospital bed if they want to go climb a mountain. not just any mountain, but often one of the seven summits of the world. i've int...

Her leg above the knee, and i left this project in awe, inspired and hoping you, too, can see how we should all get comfortable with being uncomfortable. >> all i was going to do is help one vet out, climb one mountain with a vet. >> this is called cyclops. >> he's one of those interviews that i've never forgotten. >> congratulations. >> yes. >> thank you. >> amazing. >> cnn came to me and said, brooke, you need to feel an organization that you feel really passionately about. the heros project was the first thing that popped into my head. >> what is the next after evrest? >> we're taking dance...

You. >> thank you. that means a lot to me. these are things i'm doing for the first time all over again with one leg, and to be able to share that with you, that's extremely meaningful to me. >> when you said you have to be comfortable with the uncomfortable, and i love that. put one foot in front. other and get the [ no audio ] up a mountain. >> absolutely. >> how do we get down? >> i just want to give a huge, huge schutte shout-out to the heros project, to my friends tim and kirsty. they will be headed to carson's pyramid at some point this summer. it's like 16,000 feet, an incredibly techni...