Leave it to a 29,000-foot climb to change one’s perspective on life.

That’s exactly what scaling Mount Everest did for AEW’s Darby Allin.

“You’re waking up every day thinking, ‘oh s–t, this might be my last day alive.’ And it’s no joke, because you’re seeing the dead bodies,” Allin told The Post. “You’re seeing new dead bodies. You’ve seen all this craziness and you’ve just seen the fatigue of everybody, and it kills any ego that you would ever have. And that’s the biggest thing to me is it just brought something out inside of me where I’m like, ‘Man, this is what I love. This is what I want to drag out of myself.”

Allin, who will team with Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Will Ospreay against Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Gabe Kidd and the Young Bucks in a Lights Out S

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