Rise To Your Everest is a podcast about challenge, identity, and becoming who you’re capable of being.
Hosted by Adam Clayton, the show explores what happens when people step outside comfort, lean into discomfort, and choose growth — physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Through honest conversations with athletes, entrepreneurs, adventurers, and everyday high performers, Rise To Your Everest dives into the stories behind resilience, discipline, failure, and purpose. Not the highlight reel — but the real moments that shape who we become.
Each episode is a reminder that your “Everest” doesn’t have to be a mountain. It’s the challenge in front of you. The hard conversation. The risk. The commitment to keep climbing when it would be easier to stop.
If you’re searching for direction, craving challenge, or looking to reconnect with purpose and community — this podcast is for you.
Because growth lives beyond comfort.
And the climb is always worth it.
Gabriel Middleton — The Youngest Brit to Summit Everest
In episode 12 of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Gabriel Middleton, at just 17 years old, the youngest British person in history to summit Mount Everest. But this isn't just a story about a mountain. This is a story about a 13 year old with a dream, a father who backed him every step of the way, and a family that went all in together. Gabriel opens up about the years of preparation it took to get Everest-ready, what summit day actually felt like, and the moment he discovered that on...
1 Jul 2026
Rowing the Pacific: The First Women's Team to Do It. Jessica Rowe & Miriam Payne
165 days at sea. 8,000 miles of open Pacific. One nine-metre boat, and no way off. This week I'm joined by Jessica Rowe and Miriam Payne — the first women's team, the first pair, and the youngest team ever to row the Pacific Ocean non-stop and unsupported, from Peru to Australia. Along the way they raised over £120,000 to help young people find their own version of a challenge like this. We get into all of it: the snapped rudder 300 miles offshore that nearly ended the whole thing before it b...
9 Apr 2026
Paul Harris – Walking Two Laps of the UK & Learning Not to Quit
In Episode 10 of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with adventurer, author, and former Marine Paul Harris, also known as The Warrior Walker. Paul’s story is one of relentless curiosity, mental resilience, and a refusal to quit. Best known for walking two full laps of the UK, Paul has spent years testing his physical and mental limits, not just in pursuit of adventure, but as a way of understanding himself and finding peace. In this raw and honest conversation, Paul opens up about the deepe...
26 Mar 2026
Rhys George – Building With Purpose, Leading Through Adversity & Stepping Into The Arena
In Episode 9 of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Rhys George. Founder of Bearhug, entrepreneur, and long-standing supporter of the APEX community. For the past three years, Bearhug has supported APEX from the very beginning. But for Rhys, this partnership goes beyond business. Last year, he stepped onto the start line himself, experiencing first-hand the challenge, the community, and what it truly means to stand shoulder to shoulder with others in moments of adversity. Rhys shares hi...
13 Mar 2026
Nathan Chilton – Choosing Challenge Over Comfort
In Episode 8 of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with chiropractor, father, and resilience advocate Nathan Chilton. Nathan’s journey has been defined by adversity and an unwavering mindset to keep moving forward. After multiple major surgeries, including an internal hemipelvectomy where over 75% of his pelvis was replaced with a bespoke titanium implant and the ongoing challenge of living with type 1 diabetes, Nathan has been forced to confront uncertainty, fear, and recovery in ways most...
26 Feb 2026
Andy Long - Turn Pressure into Performance
In Episode 7 of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Andy Long, former England rugby player, high-performance mindset coach, endurance athlete, and founder of Impact2. Andy’s journey has been shaped by elite sport, rejection, personal loss, and a relentless pursuit of growth. From representing England at just twenty years old to being dropped and rebuilding, Andy shares what pressure really teaches you, and how to turn it into performance instead of fear. This conversation dives into res...
12 Feb 2026
Kyle Banner – Trauma, Accountability & Building Resilience Through Adversity
In this episode of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Kyle Banner, former Royal Marine, father, business owner, and founder of Dry Trek, for a raw and honest conversation about resilience, accountability, and rebuilding after life-changing adversity. Kyle shares his journey through military service, medical discharge, and the difficult transition back into civilian life. He opens up about the traumatic workplace accident that took the life of a close friend and how that experience forc...
5 Feb 2026
Jack Jarvis – From Skydiving Accident to Running from Beijing to London
In this episode of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with endurance athlete and two-time world record holder Jack Jarvis for a raw and honest conversation about resilience, discipline, and rebuilding after life-changing adversity. Jack joined the British Army at just sixteen before going on to push himself through extreme endurance challenges. But in 2023, a skydiving accident forced him into one of the toughest battles of his life, recovery, rehabilitation, and rebuilding both physically ...
29 Jan 2026
Aaron Moon: Losing Identity, Rebuilding Resilience & Rising Again
In this episode of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Aaron Moon, a former Royal Marines Commando, endurance athlete, speaker, and founder of Reborn — for a powerful conversation about identity, resilience, and rebuilding after life-changing adversity. Aaron shares his story of being seriously injured in Afghanistan, losing his leg, and facing the far harder battle that followed: losing the identity he had built through the military. He opens up about the uncomfortable reality of start...
22 Jan 2026
Simon Hall - Rebuilding, Finding Purpose & the Power of Progress
In this episode of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Simon Hall. Entrepreneur, athlete, and speaker, for an honest conversation about rebuilding when life get's tough. Simon opens up about life after elite sport, chasing adventure across the world, and the period where everything he had built collapsed. From business failure and personal loss to being forced to start again, Simon shares how journaling, discipline, and focusing on daily progress helped him rebuild his identity an...
15 Jan 2026
Rob Bridgewater - Redefining Success, Misogi & Choosing Hard Things
In this episode of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Rob Bridgewater, a property developer and performance coach, to explore what it really means to redefine success in a world built for comfort. Rob shares his journey from building multi-million-pound property projects to realising that material success alone wasn’t enough. He opens up about navigating tough seasons in business, staying disciplined when motivation fades, and why choosing hard challenges on purpose has shaped the way ...
7 Jan 2026
Dan Staves – Building Resilience Through Endurance, Discipline & Purpose
In the first ever episode of Rise To Your Everest, Adam sits down with Dan Staves — personal trainer and ultramarathon coach — to explore what endurance really teaches us about life, discipline, and resilience. Dan shares his journey into ultra-endurance, the mindset required to keep going when your body and mind want to quit, and why learning to do hard things on purpose can shape confidence, identity, and self-belief. This conversation goes beyond training plans and miles covered. It’s abou...
5 Jan 2026
Rise To Your Everest - Introduction
Rise To Your Everest is a podcast about choosing challenge, finding purpose, and becoming who you’re capable of being. In each episode, Adam Cayton sit's down with people who’ve pushed limits, faced setbacks, and rebuilt themselves through discipline, resilience, and community. This isn’t about highlight reels — it’s about the real climb, the lessons learned along the way, and what it truly takes to keep moving forward. Rise To Your Everest is powered by: APEX Everest - UK's toughest en...
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