there's an incredible story going on in the mountaineering community rn. there's a Malaysian climber who was at death's door, and was rescued by a sherpa who risked his own life to carry his lifeless body on his back for 6 hours. The climber then blocked the sherpa on Instagram
Guy describes how his friend is the group’s Airport Dad (takes everyone’s passports, double-checks everything, etc) the comments are full of ladies who wanna marry him
this mf failed to detonate his shoe bomb once 22 years ago and now everybody everywhere has to take off their shoes at every airport forever until the end of time
love this: awkward shy rejection-sensitive pimply asian guy asked 100 girls out on a date. 19 said yes! 10 were lesbian. concludes that he got over his fear of rejection in a single day
kind of cool to know: a lot of celebrity Wikipedia pages have photos of them at comic con because there’s one guy (Gage Skidmore) who photographs them all
anyway. 👑 Gelje Sherpa!!! 👑 May you have a great rest-of-your life and may your name and deeds echo eternal through Valhalla 🫡
> "Saving one life is more important than praying at the monastery," said Gelje, a devout Buddhist.
instagram.com/gelje_sherpa_/
the tragic thing that I suppose lots of people have to learn the hard way is that getting people to care is an almost completely independent skill to acquiring achievements or accolades. it’s mostly storytelling actually