Mike Posner documents Mt. Everest climb in video for new song, "Home"

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Last year, Mike Posner climbed Mt. Everest -- no big deal, right? -- and now he's singing about the experience in a new song called "Home."

Mike sings, "I'm looking for something different to clear my mind/I’m headed to someplace distant, that I might not find/And I know that you're worried/I won't make it, but/No, don't worry/I'm gon' make it home."

In the video, Mike intersperses footage of his training and the actual expedition with captions about why he decided to climb Mt. Everest  --"to find out who I'd become" -- as well as what happened to him up there -- "an avalanche nearly destroyed us" -- and what he did when he reached the top: "I cried."

In a statement, Mike says, "If I did my job well, 'Home' pulls out the crystalized longing that was in my heart before I walked across America and climbed Mt. Everest so everyone else can see why I had to do those things."

Since his climb, Mike's been writing new music and also took a two-week expedition to Antarctica.

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