{"id":21975,"date":"2016-02-19T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=21975"},"modified":"2016-12-12T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T23:07:01","slug":"talking-k2-everest-and-memories-with-the-world-memory-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/19\/talking-k2-everest-and-memories-with-the-world-memory-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking K2, Everest and Alzheimer&#8217;s with a Memory Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Memory Champion,  Nelson Dellis, \u00a0asked me to do an interview\u00a0for his YouTube Channel, I immediately said yes. I&#8217;ve known Nelson for years and have followed both his Everest attempts (2) and eagerly anticipated return this spring of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson may be known for his amazing ability\u00a0to train his brain for improved memory. Dellis holds a number of memory records, including the US national record for memorizing a deck of shuffled cards in 63 seconds\u00a0as well as the US national record for memorizing the most digits in 5 minutes, with 303 digits memorized.\u00a0He is also ranked 15th in the world for memorizing a deck of cards, with a time of 40.65 seconds,\u00a0the fastest time for an American in an international competition.\u00a0He currently ranks 34th in the world as a memory athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson climbs to raise awareness and\u00a0funds for Alzheimer&#8217;s as he saw his grandmother go through the journey.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview we cover a lot\u00a0of topics from my summits of K2 and Everest to his attempts and his summit of Denali plus what drives us. I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<br \/>\nAlan<br \/>\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ts_XWW0SfE0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Memory Champion, Nelson Dellis, \u00a0asked me to do an interview\u00a0for his YouTube Channel, I immediately said yes. I&#8217;ve known Nelson for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"In this interview we cover a lot of topics from my summits of K2 and Everest to his attempts and his summit of Denali plus what drives us. I hope you enjoy it.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12187800_10153409297778411_8092880173093007838_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}