The Summit Australia 2023 came to a close on June 3 and after some intense deliberations from the past eliminated contestants, Brooke Kilowsky, Lulu Hawton and Isaac Compton each took home a share of the whopping $490k prize money.
While he faced some harsh critics while pleading his case, Compton earned himself a cool $250k, insisting that he “absolutely deserves it”.
“Gemma [Mullins] had said, ‘a lot of people motivated you and pushed you, some people even carried your bag. Why do you deserve to be there and not over here with us?””, Compton recalled during an interview with Chattr before his win.
“This is true. I was helped along the way. Yeah, people pushed me and encouraged me. But at the end of the day, I still had to get myself there and physically push myself. There were mental blocks and I had to push passed them to get to the end.”
In fact, it was so difficult, that when asked if he ever thought he wouldn’t make it up the mountain, he said: “Every day. Every single day because it only got harder.”
“You’re on uneven terrain. You go up and down and back up again. It’s slippery, it’s wet, it’s dirty and all these things alone are tough and then you tack on height challenges and physical exertion.”
The Summit’s Isaac Compton revealed what he really felt when the past Trekkers came back
Compton recalled the moment he realised the past contestants were going to decide who would be divvying up the cash prize, including Jans Andre, who had just been eliminated by Hawton.
“I was doing backflips. I was jumping for joy,” he admitted. “Because a lot of my friends were in that helicopter and I knew for a fact that these two [Kilowsky and Hawton] had screwed a lot of people over in that in that helicopter, but I couldn’t show that. I just pretended like I was devastated.”
As for the overall experience, Compton said: “It was incredible, absolutely amazing. It was incredibly hard. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and if they asked me to do it again? I’d do it again at the drop of a hat. Absolutely. Because I’ve seen what I can do. I’ve been there and pushed myself, and I know what I can do if I push my body and my mind too.”
Compton plans to buy his mum Gillian a brand-new kitchen with his new earnings.
“Me and my mum have been through some tough times together,” he said.
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