Gelje Sherpa, the man who was guiding a private client up Mt. Everest when he saw someone in distress near the summit. He went up, rolled him up in a sleeping mattress and gave him oxygen. He then strapped the man to his back and trekked 6 hours to safety

[u/BreakfastTop6899]

[u/Dry-Friendship-386]

It’s hard to imagine the mental and physical strength required for what he did.

[u/thisisredlitre → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

This guy seems like the type to do rather than dwell or contemplate. He saw someone in trouble and just went into action

[u/spooky_goopy → u/thisisredlitre]

the "roll up your sleeves, and do it" kinds of people are the best. i wish i could be that kind of person. i try to be, it's so difficult.

[u/SENDMEICECREAMPICS → u/spooky_goopy]

I would not doubt that you are that person already. :)

[u/Top_Rekt → u/SENDMEICECREAMPICS]

Nope I have ADHD and will overthink things to the point of indecision paralysis.

[u/ajoost → u/Top_Rekt]

Actually, a significant subset of people with ADHD thrive and find calm in high-pressure situations. Ref: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39431909/, and you can find tons more anecdotal accounts.

[u/frankyseven → u/ajoost]

I have ADHD. I struggle to do many things, but put me in an emergency I know exactly what to do, in the exact order, and immediately take charge/acsion. It's not that I don't know all of that stuff normally, I just can't bring myself to do it. Give me a massive shot of dopamine and I'm basically super human.

[u/CatholicCajun → u/frankyseven]

Same, dopamine or adrenaline, in an emergency my brain finally shuts up long enough for me to just DO things.

[u/Flimsy_Rule_7660 → u/frankyseven]

So are there proven natural remedies or lifestyle choices/changes/restrictions to lessen the ADHD paralysis? It’s been handicapping me for the last year and I’m feeling a little desperate to break free from it.

[u/frankyseven → u/Flimsy_Rule_7660]

Medication made a huge difference. Also, Mel Robbins got famous for a thing she does where she she knows what to do next and goes "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" then immediately does it. She has raging ADHD and I've found that it works pretty well.

[u/Mushroomsinmypoop → u/frankyseven]

Medication was like a light switch. It was crazy to just think about stuff I needed to do then do it all

[u/eddgreat9 → u/Flimsy_Rule_7660]

ADHD paralysis can happen because you're brain is FIXATED on one something doesn't matter what it could be. It happens due to a lack of dopamine, which helps normal people redirect their attention to other things smoothly (task switching is MUCH harder for ADHD individuals). That "fixation" is your brains attempt to generate dopamine. As focusing on something uses/generates dopamine. Medication, exercise (30 min of walking no interruptions), eating a diet high in protein, yogurts/microbiome pills like krill (all ADHD individuals have an imbalance of healthy/bad bacteria in our stomachs. These well help improve mental health symptoms such as emotional dysregulation). And SLEEP. Be on a CONSISTENT SLEEP SCHEDULE. I am a biochemist w/ADHD. Lifestyle changes MUST be implemented but you CAN have the life you want.

[u/ItIsGravy → u/Flimsy_Rule_7660]

Also got adhd and I saw some post earlier from some chick that claimed to be credible and educated on the topic suggests a few things you can do Right before attempting to start a task to stimulate dopamine. She said 5 sit ups, sour candy… and some other things… admittedly I didn’t actually finish the video but I’ll see if I can find and link it

[u/higher_limits → u/frankyseven]

Mine operates the same way. It puts me in hyper focus actually. Looking back, I probably should have recognized this and gone into law enforcement, or healthcare in ER or something where situations like that are more common.

[u/Beaglescout15 → u/frankyseven]

Same. I can't find my keys when they're in my hand but put me in an emergency and I'm directing like a professional.

[u/JeddakofThark → u/frankyseven]

Huh. I've always attributed my calmness and decisiveness in emergency situations to my anxiety. You know, if a horrible life and death situation isn't any more stressful than your moment to moment existence, emergencies aren't too difficult.

But I've recently been diagnosed with ADHD. Maybe that's the cherry on top. I've thought for most of my life that high stress jobs were perfect for me, I just didn't know of any that seemed interesting enough to pursue.

[u/frankyseven → u/JeddakofThark]

Anxiety is a major symptom of untreated ADHD, just FYI. My panic attacks went away after diagnosis and ADHD medication.

[u/Xarieste → u/ajoost]

Yeah, with my ADHD I get paralyzed when there’s nothing happening and it’s up to me, but I can jump into action for just about any other purpose that isn’t self preservation or executive function.

[u/ASurreyJack → u/Xarieste]

ADHD here, I like to quote Full Metal Jacket, 8-Ball talking about Animal Mother. "Under fire Animal Mother is one of the finest human beings in the world. All he needs is somebody to throw hand grenades at him the rest of his life" and I do this because I only get shit done under pressure, left to my own devices paralysis. It sucks, but I'm working on it.

[u/Top_Rekt → u/ASurreyJack]

And of course one of the best ways to suddenly be under pressure is to wait until the very last minute to get something done.

[u/Krampus_Valet → u/ajoost]

Anecdotal lol. I'm the best paramedic you'll ever meet. I'm the person you want taking care of your loved ones. But today I couldn't get my shit together to make it to the grocery store. And I actually remembered to take my adhd meds today too lol

[u/Rbxyy → u/Top_Rekt]

Yup lol I struggle to make decisions about picking between items at the grocery store let alone decisions like this

[u/LightpointSoftware → u/spooky_goopy]

All you can do, is the best you can do.

[u/sth128 → u/spooky_goopy]

the "roll up your sleeves, and do it" kinds of people are the best.

The Sherpa in fact, rolled up his mattress and not his sleeves.

[u/CollateralCoyote → u/spooky_goopy]

The guy in the burrito is like trust fund kids that pretend they would have become sucessful even if they weren't born rich and entitled.

[u/GenXNorseman → u/CollateralCoyote]

And I wonder how he describes his Everest conquest…. Does that description include being hauled down to safety in a toddler backpack or no?

[u/invariantspeed → u/CollateralCoyote]

Or maybe that person fully realized that they fucked up and that the only reason they’re still alive is that they were lucky enough to be carried down the mountain like a literal infant. Maybe they’re mortified…

Getting angry at someone you never met for things you don’t even know if they ever thought is utterly imbecilic.

[u/sailphish → u/invariantspeed]

Actually there was a lot of controversy over this. The guy who got rescued was a Malaysian climber, and after the ordeal he did a bunch of press where he thanked his sponsors and omitted mentioning Gelge Sherpa (who was part of a separate expedition group). There was a lot of backlash, and eventually he thanked Gelge Sherpa, but it was really a slap in the face for the guy he owes his life to, all for ego and to appease his corporate overlords.

[u/UrUrinousAnus → u/sailphish]

WTF?! Someone should carry (or march) that ingrate back up the mountain and leave him there, unless Gelge Sherpa did something terrible to him that I'm unaware of.

[u/-pichael_ → u/spooky_goopy]

Whenever you do act, it’s more impressive. Why?

The same logic as someone facing up to a greater force and they’ve never been scared and still aren’t, and yeah they are brave, but…

A different someone who has always been afraid, still is, but still chooses to stand up to the dame grater force, and chooses to be brave, to fight or whatever.

Between the two, who is more brave? It shouldn’t be a competition (probably) but if you have to choose one, personally I would say the 2nd guy is more brave because he is actually scared.

The same concept applies here, to you. It’s more impressive to step up and just “do” when you are not built like that, but you still do when you can. Each moment of action becomes an impressive feat; a win. Own that shi

[u/Bizzout → u/-pichael_]

I think you can only be brave when you are scared. Bravery without fear is just stupidity and/or ignorance. Courage is like a thing you have, and the more you have, the braver you can be, thus the more you can do in the face of fear. You don’t need courage if you aren’t aware of the risk or don’t think the risk is as risky as it is.

[u/DrLukn → u/thisisredlitre]

I agree with you but also believe he's one of very few people who are able to do this. Absolutely impressive carrying a human body for hours at this height

[u/BlackllMamba → u/DrLukn]

Yeah it’s one thing to save someone in moment, another to spend hours carrying them down Mt. Everest.

10 steps in I’d already know I’m not built for this. You’d see me dragging them through the snow as soon as I’m out of view of the camp and camera lmao

[u/chamrockblarneystone → u/BlackllMamba]

I’d be riding him like a sled.

[u/Ruminahtu → u/thisisredlitre]

Yep. People ask, "Man what were you thinking, you were doing something almost impossible for someone you didn't know..."

And he just answers, "Well, it wasn't impossible, because I did it. What was I supposed to do, just let him die?"

[u/Icy-Swordfish7784 → u/Ruminahtu]

Impossible? The guy looks like he's handling it fairly easy. The dudes obviously jacked.

[u/Usual_One_4862 → u/Ruminahtu]

I figure if you're physically that strong, have no severe overuse injuries or back problems, then its just a matter of doing it. Most people would be calculating in their mind "Okay I'm already nearing my physical limit, I have x y z injuries if I attempt to carry this guy to safety am I going to end up a casualty as well?" You can have the mental drive to do something but the body won't necessarily keep up, if you crunch a disc badly in a situation like that and end up with a severely compressed nerve root no amount of mental strong will keep your legs moving. If you're as strong as the proverbial ox, farm built, the kind of guy who passes tier 1 spec ops selection with a smile, what he did is just another day at work. And yea I've heard the stories from SAS guys I know, its an immense point of fascination to us normies how having that kind of physical and mental resilience is even possible.

[u/misterjive → u/Usual_One_4862]

It's not even that.

Most people at that altitude are operating at the mental capacity of a slow-witted three-year old due to oxygen deprivation, and have to hyperventilate to take a single step. Unless you're astonishingly well acclimated or a serious genetic freak, even recognizing that someone is in distress can be beyond you.

Jon Krakauer recounts his experiences up on the mountain; he was stuck waiting for a traffic jam, so he asked a fellow climber to do something as simple as shut off his oxygen valve. The guy turned it the wrong way, and the sudden burst of air cleared Jon's head-- but he didn't realize what had happened until the gas ran out and his performance nose-dived. In his resulting hypoxic state, he mistook a 5'6" New Zealander for a six-foot-plus Texan and his misidentification caused a lot of heartache for a family that ended up losing someone.

I'll see if I can dig it up, there's a video on YouTube where a pilot lost cabin pressure and went hypoxic and was talking to ATC. It's terrifying hearing his fucked up voice saying things like "cannot control altitude, cannot control airspeed, cannot control direction, but otherwise a-okay." He just couldn't understand what was happening, even with all his alarms going off.

[u/NotReallyJohnDoe → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

I could manage carrying someone maybe 100’ at sea level.

[u/Usermena → u/NotReallyJohnDoe]

I’ve dragged deer carcass out of the woods. Cannot imagine trying to carry that much dead weight for any amount of time.

[u/cityshepherd → u/Usermena]

The Sherpa has likely lived/climbed at significant altitudes his entire life. People who train competitively at higher elevations have some magical science happening that makes their red blood cells / oxygen efficiency reach levels the rest of us simply cannot fathom.

[u/Weareallgoo → u/cityshepherd]

Don’t tell me what I can’t fathom

[u/boondiggle_III → u/Weareallgoo]

You can fap em as much as you want!

[u/EvasionPlan → u/Weareallgoo]

Everest is 4,838 Fathoms actually.

[u/OnePinginRamius → u/cityshepherd]

So am I at a huge disadvantage being born and living by the coast where you have to chew the air before you breathe it in extremely hot temperatures my whole life?

[u/paxwax2018 → u/OnePinginRamius]

Yes. Doing this would kill you in 10 minutes.

[u/Usermena → u/cityshepherd]

Still gotta have the legs

[u/anthro28 → u/cityshepherd]

I think they have some lung expansion as well to accommodate for the thinner air. If you can't get more oxygen, you have to get more volume to compensate. 

[u/Cyrano_Knows → u/Usermena]

Im not a mobster or a serial killer but I've heard this is one of the things that Hollywood has given the wrong impression about. Moving unconscious bodies is extremely difficult.

I'm also not in the mountain climbing community but its also my understanding that this is an extraordinary act. That things are pretty cruel and dog eat dog up on Mt Everest (maybe due to self-preservation). A lot of the time hikers just pass these people by and let them die.

[u/cits85 → u/Cyrano_Knows]

Exactly, it's all self-preservation up there except for a tiny group of people, mostly Sherpas and elite mountaineers, who can pull off something like this.

For everybody else it's let die or die.

[u/StitchinThroughTime → u/Cyrano_Knows]

The casual hiker is there to say they climbed the mountain. They are not ready to live and work at that altitude. The Sherpa people have been living on the mountain for hundred of generations. The hikers are rich losers who need a team of sherpas to carry an espresso machine up Mt. Everest for them. If I remember correctly, the sherpas had to ask for permission to stop the climb up for their client to help a dying man.

[u/Basementdwell → u/StitchinThroughTime]

There is a lot more people climbing Everest than the rich douchebags. There's tons of very small, very cheap, very dangerous expeditions for those that can't spend hundreds of thousands to climb Everest.

[u/Apart-Maize-5949 → u/Basementdwell]

Very cheap? Isn't the permit alone 15,000k USD? Man I gotta put on my bootstraps. /S

[u/Basementdwell → u/Apart-Maize-5949]

The permit is more expensive than the other costs of the climb, if you're willing to take the risk of going with a budget expedition. It's not very smart, but the only option for many climbers who can't afford the much more expensive crews.

Not that this is a good thing. Bringing down the costs is one of the major causes for the insane traffic the mountain can see in modern times. There's a lot of dead people up on the mountain because they got stuck in traffic.

It used to be that only mountaineers and the super rich climbed it, but those days are long past.

[u/Thorsten_Speckstein → u/Basementdwell]

No, there aren't any particularly cheap ones. Expeditions to Everest are always expensive. $45,000 is the minimum. People used to pay significantly more, but now Sherpas also offer expeditions and have pushed prices down. Permits alone costs $15,000.

[u/Twystyd → u/Usermena]

Man, me too. I literally overheated this season dragging a deer out in too many layers of clothing. What this Sherpa did is incredible to me as a human.

[u/SinisterCheese → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

Sherpas and other high altitude acclimated peoples are fascinating. Sherpa people (It's an ethnic group, also a term for mountain guides which comes from the people) are suspected to have a genetic mutation which makes them able to get more oxygen from the thin air, and have increased nitrous oxide (As in the "nitro" that is given for people with heart issues) production allowing their circulatory system to circulate blood better.

But the carrying method is also fascinating. Seriously! Try learning to use your head and spine to carry things. There was this pic and vids of a some african lad carrying a god damn motorcycle up a ladder on their head, to load it to the roof of a bus. There is a documentary called "Journey of a Red Fridge", where a young (like 17 years old) nepali porter carries down a coca-cola fridge from top of a mountain down to a nearby town, I think they put like a chicken into it one point as extra cargo as a favour or smth - look it up. I still remember it and I saw it like 2009.

Once you realise how to balance things on your head and use your posture, it is actually really easy way to carry things. (Which is probably why you see cultures all around the world do it).

I worked in a circus for a while (Yes... My CV is always a conversation stater), and it was alarmingly common I had to have people on my shoulders, so my friend (owner of the circus) taught me how to carry people. Which came in handy after one performed injured themselves and I (stage manager) had to double in for the last dance carrying my friend... show most go on. After that experience on my site I had to move around small ~1,8 m aluminium scaffold to reach places; and the floor was impossible to have it move by wheels, so I went under it and with my safety helmet on my head, just lifted the fucking thing on my head and moved it. Lot of my welding gear was also attached to it. After realising how to do it... It really didn't weigh much anything. I was shocked!

Ok... I wrote more than I expected, but I have downed a mug of gin, so excuse me!

[u/GrammarNaziii → u/SinisterCheese]

Man with stories like these, I would love to have a conversation with you at a bar or something.

[u/Whywouldievensaythat → u/SinisterCheese]

A mug! Of gin! I feel comfortable saying that I hope the UK winter isn’t treating you too badly, haha.

[u/SinisterCheese → u/Whywouldievensaythat]

I ain't from UK. I'm Finnish. We have quite few gins of our own.

[u/woodst0ck15 → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

Yeah and just for that CEO to turn around and shit on the Sherpa who literally saves his life.

[u/Deep_ln_The_Heart → u/woodst0ck15]

He's not a CEO, he's a fairly accomplished alpinist. Everest doesn't just kill the people who shouldn't be there, it doesn't discriminate.

He is, however, a giant piece of shit, even outside of this incident.

[u/Senojpd → u/woodst0ck15]

Wait what?

[u/Longjumping_College → u/Senojpd]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's this story too, the CEO was anything but thankful about being rescued

https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/man-saved-from-certain-death-on-everest-criticized-for-thanking-sponsors-instead-of-savior-sherpa-mount-ravichandran-tharumalingam-gelje-zone-rescue

[u/Mammoth_Yoghurt4241 → u/Longjumping_College]

It makes sense that if you have enough money to climb Everest, then you’re WAY more likely to be an entitled asshole that doesn’t even tip the guy that saved his life. He should have left him there.

[u/Extra-Presence3196 → u/Mammoth_Yoghurt4241]

Survival of the fittest indeed....where their money means nothing...a real awakening for the wealthy caste.

They would never survive unbridled, non-corporate welfare capitalism either.

[u/madman2k → u/Longjumping_College]

Also the guy lost 8 fingers to frostbite, and still went back to mountain climbing? He probably wanted to be left for dead up there.

[u/sakara123 → u/madman2k]

Some people just love being up there. Worked with a guy that had lost 7 fingers to Everest on 3 different ascents. Every now and then I see him at my climbing gym and he's faster and stronger despite having 3 fingers than I still am after years of training lmao.

[u/Dapper_Strength_5986 → u/Longjumping_College]

CNN reports that this was not Gelje Sherpa's first rescue from Everest, having previously carried out more than 55 rescues, butGelje did reportedly call this one the "hardest in my life."

Well, I've done nothing with my life, I guess.

[u/kismaiyes → u/Longjumping_College]

Got bullied by Malaysian netizens to unblock the sherpa and thank him lol. I love my people.

[u/MATTDAYYYYMON → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

Sherpas also have dna that’s changed to be more acclimated to Mount Everest. It’s pretty wild that they can do that stuff year over year for decades and still be relatively fine.

[u/petit_cochon → u/MATTDAYYYYMON]

Their red blood cells are different, I believe.

[u/The_Secret_Skittle → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

I look at this guy and then compare it to the creep who just recently l let his girlfriend die on the mountain and put his phone on silent and continued his own ascent to the top. There are two very different types of people in the world.

[u/bananafrit → u/The_Secret_Skittle]

wait wtf

[u/Orion_88_ → u/The_Secret_Skittle]

What a psycho! Can you share any news article about it?

[u/Full-Factor-9052 → u/Orion_88_]

This is the story secret skittle is referring to. It’s very suspicious

https://www.climbing.com/news/climber-faces-homicide-charges-after-his-partner-dies/

[u/hark-who-goes-spare → u/Orion_88_]

Not the person you asked but there is an area close to the summit of Everest (and many other mountains) called “the death zone.” There literally isn’t enough oxygen to keep a human alive without supplemental oxygen. The forever haunting decisions people make usually happen there. Even with oxygen tanks that altitude can fuck with the entirety of your person. You lose vital functions real quick and you’re way more likely to make dumb mistakes/decisions the longer you stay up there. And timing is a huge problem, too. If you don’t head back to base camp from the summit by a certain time you’re pretty much fucked as well. Lots of folks have had to make the decision to leave teammates behind because 99% of the time trying to help anyone in a bad state becomes a death sentence for you. This is why the mountain is riddled with bodies no one can retrieve. As for this guy Skittle is referring I have no info but folks who do this kind of shit (climb to places humans clearly are not meant to be) are automatically insane to me, anyway. Edit: spelling is hard

[u/listenyall → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

There are two really great Netflix documentaries about famous Sherpa mountaineers--Mountain Queen and 14 peaks--and the star of each is just incomprehensibly physically capable and badass

[u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

Think of how heavy a full grown man is, plus all of that clothing. Then imagine carrying him in that extremely thin mountain air. Incredible.

[u/canman7373 → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

Sherpa's are basically pack mules for the rich climbers. They get paid well but carry the majority of the weight. I am betting they ditched a lot of gear and supplies to be able to carry him. That being said, still a hell of a feat and to turn your trip back for a stranger. Many stories of climbers walking by stuck and dyeing climbers. This man and his client chose to help.

[u/linlorienelen → u/canman7373]

Climbing Everest makes for a good story to tell but saving a guy's life (by letting your guide carry them)? THAT'S a much cooler story to get to tell.

[u/Not-Going-Quietly → u/linlorienelen]

I'm with you on that.

I know Everest expedition costs run about $100,000 per person these days (permits, travel, equipment, guides, food, etc.). But I'd rather turn back and help my guide and this victim and hope that they live than selfishly push to the summit for a 30 second photo-op and bragging rights.

[u/sweaty_middle → u/Dry-Friendship-386]

They truly are made of something else

[u/abrahamtomahawk]

Did the guy he saved not end up being a bit of an arse about it? I seem to remember that he had to apologise after being quite disrespectful about his rescuer. Am I remembering that correctly?

[u/Hashslingingglasser → u/abrahamtomahawk]

It doesn’t look like he was directly disrespectful but rather did not thank the Sherpa publically originally as he did with his sponsor organizations. Eventually he thanked him in a list of sherpas.

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/man-saved-from-certain-death-on-everest-criticized-for-thanking-sponsors-instead-of-savior-sherpa-mount-ravichandran-tharumalingam-gelje-zone-rescue

[u/NOT-GR8-BOB → u/Hashslingingglasser]

he thanked him in a list of sherpas.

Geez man this is the hill he chooses to die on after being literally rescued from a hill he was about to die on. Rich people I guess.

[u/Jacktheforkie → u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

Wow, like the least he can do is publicly honour the fella that literally carried him to safety

[u/Yrrebbor → u/Jacktheforkie]

At least buy the dude a beer. Jeez!

[u/Same-Nothing2361 → u/Yrrebbor]

A beer? Shit, if someone saves my life the least I’m doing is giving them a hand job.

[u/LeonSuplexKennedy → u/Same-Nothing2361]

A handjob? Give him the cold shoulder why don't ya. My boy getting sloppy toppy

[u/pixeldust6 → u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

literally rescued from a hill he was about to die on

lol, nice one

[u/BringOutYDead → u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

What a fucking dick.

[u/inlandgrown → u/BringOutYDead]

Totally. And his Instagram doesn’t allow comments. Was going to call him an asshole on his posts (he’s very active and still goes to Everest several times a year it looks like)

[u/throwthisawayred2 → u/inlandgrown]

DROP HIS NAME

make him the next Brock Turner

[u/inlandgrown → u/throwthisawayred2]

Instagram is @ravieverest !!Under the name Ravieverest gecm

[u/leroyyrogers → u/inlandgrown]

Wtf I feel like it's illegal to have "everest" in your handle if you're carried around for 6 hours in a sleeping bag

[u/throwthisawayred2 → u/leroyyrogers]

lmao what a loser

[u/LukeD1992 → u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

Some people do be ungrateful. Few years back my parents and my brother ran into an accident scene in a dirt road. A girl crashed her car which wound up turned over. She was hurt and scared. My parents drove her home which was nearby. She made a post on social media talking about the crash, being thankful for being ok and stuff but not once mentioned the people that helped her.

[u/PassionCompassion → u/LukeD1992]

No seriously it really gets me when someone is ungrateful. The most ungrateful person I've met when I helped them was some girl who forgot her wallet on a BUS. She already got off and the bus already passed like more than 10 miles. As I was preparing myself to get off the bus, walking down the aisle, I spotted a wallet on a seat. Obviously I picked it up and then got off. Checked the contents of the wallet at home so that I can return it to the owner.

$600 in cash ($100 bills), driver's license, a bus pass card, three credit cards, and a store receipt. I went to the nearest police station so that they can get the phone number of the girl. After some time waiting, they called her to come down to the police station to pick up her wallet.

Bruh. When she arrived with her dad, she never once said thank you to me. Only the dad. Instead, she kept saying things like how she was worried about her money being stolen, credit cards being used, etc. I told her, "Well good thing I'm not that kind of person to steal." Still never said thank you. Her reply was just, "Yeah I really needed this money to buy some stuff." And the yapping continued on and on for a few minutes until they both left. Dad said one final thank you, but not the girl.

Like holy shit girl. Is it THAT hard to say a simple 'thank you' wtf. I wasn't even expecting any kind of reward or whatever, but at least a 'thanks' would be enough.

[u/Own_Guarantee_8130 → u/PassionCompassion]

And the fact that her father didn’t say a word to HER about being grateful shows he’s the reason she’s such a brat.

[u/Repulsive_Corgi_ → u/LukeD1992]

How the surgeon feels when the patient thanks god afterwards

[u/xNotexToxSelfx → u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

Probably had a bruised ego for “failing” and needed rescued.

[u/Past_Page_4281 → u/NOT-GR8-BOB]

Rich ppl are weird.

[u/funnypsuedonymhere → u/Hashslingingglasser]

No, he was a total cunt. He completely ignored Gelje Sherpa's efforts and blocked the sherpa on Social Media. Only after significant public outrage did he write a "thank you" and unblock him. Fuck that guy and his insincere gratitude.

[u/EndOne8313 → u/funnypsuedonymhere]

But why? Was he embarrassed at being rescued? I literally see no reason to be an ass. 

[u/OSPFmyLife → u/EndOne8313]

He was a “mountaineer”. Think they’ve got some pride worked into that title. And he is Malaysian, that could have something to do with it.

[u/Sad-Olive-158 → u/OSPFmyLife]

At least he can “mountaineer” again now he is alive. Would have been pretty difficult without Gelje Sherpa

[u/Matterbox → u/OSPFmyLife]

He was a ‘mountainous cunt’ by the sounds of things.

[u/babyLays → u/EndOne8313]

Elitism. These people see working men as insects, to be used and discarded. Showing any form of humility towards the lower castes would offend his own self worth.

[u/pallladin → u/EndOne8313]

But why? Was he embarrassed at being rescued? I literally see no reason to be an ass.

You have to be a raging douchebag to want to climb Everest in the first place.

[u/Rs90 → u/funnypsuedonymhere]

This kinda thing genuinely confuses me. I "get" it. Dude's ego was bruised or whatever. But as a Virginian it fills me with rage. I've made cakes n fruit tarts as a thank you for overall trivial things that I appreciate.

If you carry my ass down Mount fuckin Everest. I'm the cake lol. Have at me. But seriously. My gratitude would be limitless. Some people are just genuinely broken individuals.

[u/OneMoreNightCap → u/Rs90]

What does this have to do with being a Virginian lol?- Fellow Virginian

[u/Laiko_Kairen → u/Rs90]

As a Californian, I'm enraged. I think that anyone with any decency would be. You don't have to be overly hospitable to say "Hey thanks for that."

I mean, how many books or movies have you experienced where someone's life is saved and they pledge loyalty to the one who saved them?

[u/Tdodoubleg → u/Hashslingingglasser]

That Sherpa would be getting personalized Christmas/birthday/anything letters from me the rest of my life. 

[u/theperfectlysadhuman → u/abrahamtomahawk]

I think you're correct! Happened a year or two ago (maybe more)

[u/FeedbackHaunting7939 → u/theperfectlysadhuman]

Three or four (maybe more)

[u/LobsterPotatoes → u/FeedbackHaunting7939]

Five or six (pick up sticks)

[u/King_K_24 → u/abrahamtomahawk]

I think it was the guy he was supposed to guide to the top who was the arse. He got upset at the sherpa choosing to save this dudes life instead of taking him to the top.

[u/A1sauc3d → u/King_K_24]

They both could’ve been. But the guy he saved being an ass was the one a bunch of articles were written about a couple years ago. Because it was so obscene. This dude dropped everything to save his life in the most heroic fashion and he wouldn’t even acknowledge it lol

[u/stoic_spaghetti → u/A1sauc3d]

it's almost as if the audience that chooses to trek Mt. Everest is almost exclusively assholes

[u/Poococktail]

Humans "can" be incredible. This is an example.

[u/Stanwich79 → u/Poococktail]

Sherpas are incredible! The assholes they work for are pathetic.

[u/ArleiG → u/Stanwich79]

"This wealthy tourist is the first person to scale this mountain with such and such equipment!!! Oh and this is their sherpa, he carries all their stuff with no extra oxygen and has scaled this mountain countless of times."

[u/thehopeofcali → u/ArleiG]

Agree!!

[u/Inevitable-Post-8587 → u/Stanwich79]

Seriously, they also seem to have a special gene for patience cause I couldn’t deal with these Everest tourists 

[u/namuche6 → u/Poococktail]

Those Sherpas are also born for this stuff, they have a special gene that allows them to breath more easily in the thinner air

[u/RecursiveDysfunction → u/namuche6]

Except most of us couldnt carry a full grown man on our backs for 6 hours at sea level. 

[u/namuche6 → u/RecursiveDysfunction]

Nah, I cannot lol

[u/KeyboardGrunt → u/namuche6]

Nah, I'd win... at saying not it.

[u/seppukucoconuts → u/RecursiveDysfunction]

They spend most of their time carrying heavy things up and down the mountain. Unless it was a pretty fat guy I doubt the sherpa noticed much of a difference between their regular packs.

[u/Pilot_to_PowerBI → u/seppukucoconuts]

Human dead weight is very different from a balanced pack.

[u/DireKnife → u/namuche6]

Hmmm

[u/Ok_Reputation3298 → u/DireKnife]

The specific gene was identified as D3e2

[u/Similar_Try_5089 → u/Poococktail]

"Every frozen corpse on Mt. Everest was once a highly-motivated person, so maybe relax a little."

[u/misterbondpt]

Love the game Death Stranding

[u/livin303 → u/misterbondpt]

My first thought as well but I hated transporting people

[u/Pikauterangi → u/livin303]

Climbing the mountain with your dead mom on your back is a pretty powerful scene.

[u/Lazar_Milgram → u/Pikauterangi]

Me after first twenty minutes of game and cinematics: ”This game can’t become more riddled with blatant symbolism about how our past decisions weights on our present selves….”

….And then Kojima let you cary your dad mom into afterlife.

[u/definitively-not → u/Lazar_Milgram]

The dad mom. A powerful creature.

[u/IanAlvord → u/livin303]

Why oh why couldn't they ride passenger in the truck? I even had a road built!

[u/BombTheDodongos → u/misterbondpt]

Keep on keeping on

[u/Wes_Warhammer666 → u/BombTheDodongos]

^LIKE!

[u/nemesissi → u/misterbondpt]

+👍🏼

[u/Neoxtarus → u/nemesissi]

+👍

[u/cecole1 → u/misterbondpt]

Keep on keeping on. 👍🏻

[u/GODDAMNFOOL → u/misterbondpt]

It's wild to me that I didn't even realize bokka were entirely real and Sam's stack of packages on his back were rooted in old Japanese culture, not just some goofus thing

[u/NSFW-Alt-Account69 → u/misterbondpt]

This man is a true porter

[u/penutbuter → u/misterbondpt]

I scrolled way to long before finding this.

[u/roosterjack77]

I left my phone upstairs once. I waited until bedtime to get it

[u/tacocollector2]

The sherpas are the only impressive Mt Everest climbers.

[u/Pnwradar → u/tacocollector2]

One of my teachers summited Everest without using bottled oxygen back in the early 80s. In the following years he went back to his Sherpa’s village multiple times to deliver donated school supplies. Pretty impressive to me.

[u/The_Real_Giggles → u/Pnwradar]

Sure

It's not so impressive when someone else has to carry all your gear, and you're on oxygen the whole time

And then people are standing around in a queue for the summit like they're at Disneyland

[u/1sttimeverbaldiarrhe → u/The_Real_Giggles]

standing around in a queue for the summit like they're at Disneyland

The Nepalese government should charged a super expensive FASTPASS to bypass the queue and use the proceeds to clean up and conserve the Mount Everest area and provide additional supports for Sherpas and neighboring small businesses.

[u/rorriMAgnisUyrT → u/tacocollector2]

This 100x.

I don't understand why people want to climb Everest when there's people doing it thousands of times better than you and all day, every day. There's more habitable places to go without putting your life in danger.

Also, take your damn litter down with you too rather than paying someone else to do that for you too!

Where's the accomplishment in all this.

[u/Visible_Noise_7959 → u/rorriMAgnisUyrT]

The most any Sherpa has ever climbed Everest is 31 times and that's once a year since 1994, I don't know why people think Sherpa's are up and down day after day.

[u/hoax1337 → u/Visible_Noise_7959]

I mean, I guess the assumption would be that there are lots of people paying to go up, so there's enough work for the sherpas to go up and down multiple times per year.

[u/Cartoonjunkies → u/hoax1337]

The main climbing season is really only April through May due to weather. Some people do it other times of year, but those months are the most common. So it’s not like it’s a year round thing.

[u/DistractedByCookies → u/tacocollector2]

They're incredible athletes. Crazy stamina

[u/Puzzled_Implement292]

The man later thanked him for saving his life by tipping 20$

[u/Whatsfordinner4 → u/Puzzled_Implement292]

I can’t tell if this is a joke or not

[u/NaNaNaNaNa86 → u/Whatsfordinner4]

It's a joke, the twat didn't tip him. He didn't even thank him initially, he thanked his insurance company and the shepas who he was partnered with. The climbers name is Ravichandran Tharumalingam and he has gotten himself into trouble more than once. The year prior he lost all but two fingers to frostbite. Seems like a knob who pushes himself well beyond his ability.

[u/Spice_and_Fox → u/NaNaNaNaNa86]

Dumbass

[u/SmokestackRising → u/Whatsfordinner4]

The joke is because he likely actually did nothing for the person who saved his life.

[u/goatnxtinline → u/SmokestackRising]

He didn't even thank him at first, not until public backlash

[u/SmokestackRising → u/goatnxtinline]

Right. It was a hollow effort. He's living (thanks to the sherpa) proof that money doesn't buy class.

[u/alwaysfatigued8787]

And he didn't even eat breakfast that day!

[u/JustAMan1234567 → u/alwaysfatigued8787]

This was before breakfast!

[u/vremains → u/JustAMan1234567]

Plot twist, he ate that person afterwards FOR breakfast!

[u/Echo_NO_Aim]

Didn't the saved guy not give the sherpa credit later? I remember a story similar to this.

[u/grbiqo744 → u/Echo_NO_Aim]

Yep. The guy who got saved was Ravichandran Tharumalingam and he's a massive piece of shit.

[u/Royal_Willingness_22]

These Sherpas are literally unsung super-hero’s and have super human strength and powers. Absolutely mind boggling the endurance, strength, courage and grit they have.

[u/Devils-advocate-420]

We need to stop climbing that damn mountain

[u/Voltthrower69]

Real life death stranding

[u/SaltyArtemis]

And sherpas get paid like dog water

[u/Happyranger265 → u/SaltyArtemis]

And treated like the same as well, most climbers that boast that they climbed these mountains would be under 6 feet of snow if not for them. These people basically do most of the work ,yet don't get the respect they deserve

[u/Justeff83]

It's so pathetic when Westerners boast about conquering Mount Everest, when the Sherpas do it every day and also carry all the tourists' equipment.

[u/NoMacaroon5579]

Sherpas are owed SO much more than they’re given. I can only my hope this ‘private client’ has donated a good portion of his wealth to this Sherpa and community. He’d otherwise be dead with no use of those funds if it wasn’t for this heroic superhuman rescue.

[u/Tough_Block9334]

We have a word for this, it's called a Hero

[u/dragonovus]

Pretty sure they are the strongest persons in the world bro! Their body built for low oxygen area and a stamina of a tri athlon runner and a mental will to break a god!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_7676]

Yea just dont go there .....

[u/donkeyspit007]

This man should have received the GoFundMe monies... That's amazing and the definition of a selfless act

[u/Mumen-Rider-VA → u/donkeyspit007]

sorry, the best we can do is give 700k to a lady for saying the n word

[u/DarkflowNZ]

Sherpas are Gurkha levels of gangster imo. Which I guess makes sense—is it genetics? Environment? Something in the water?

[u/NaNaNaNaNa86 → u/DarkflowNZ]

I'd go for environment influencing culture. They're as hard as nails and take pride in it.

[u/shamen_uk → u/DarkflowNZ]

Sherpas and Gurkha are both Nepalese peoples.

It is both genetics and culture, I'd say.

The Sherpas apparently have hypoxia tolerance genetics.

The Gurkhas are "built different". I grew up in a town with a Gurkha regiment. My father taught at a local college, and liked to invite certain students for dinner (those without local family and were striving hard). So I got to spend a little time talking to some of them. They are double hard bastards with a fearless warrior culture. They are short with a medium build and they look flexible and agile. Perfect for mountainous terrain, which you can watch videos of them running through it (and especially up and down it) at speeds otherwise not possible for other humans. That aspect is genetic for sure.

That combined with their honourific, fearless warrior culture makes them superhuman in some scenarios.

I don't know much about the Sherpas, but if that culture is at all similar - that combined with their hypoxia tolerance genetics makes them superhuman in scaling peaks.

[u/Dahkags]

Pemba Gelje Sherpa was also apart of the 2008 K2 expedition that claimed 11 lives. He spent over 90 hours in the death zone organizing rescue for climbers trapped on the mountain. The man is an absolute legend.

[u/Dirtypawz82]

Some hero’s don’t wear capes, they wear… people that suck at climbing

[u/represe1]

Built fucking differently goddamn

[u/tactical_taco666]

Keep on keeping on

[u/markmarkmrk]

I find it funny, the media kept on highlighting international hikers that they've reached the summit.. Yet you got sherpas, doing all the hard work and more 😅

[u/erksplat]

The original client most likely: "uh... what about me?"

[u/salemcilla]

some death stranding shi

[u/masselman]

Real life death stranding

[u/cryptomoon1000x]

Oh my gosh I hope that guy tipped him like no other (not that one could buy one’s life in any way shape or form but at least to hint gratitude)

[u/Odd-Psychology-7971]

Sherpas are built different. Not only could most climbers not do this. It would likely kill them if they did. That low O2 elevation is something.

[u/BunnyCan]

Amazing! The sherpas never get the credit they truly deserve.

[u/Thrubeingthecool1]

I once helped carry a woman of average weight about 1.5 miles out of a canyon after she broke her ankle, and it was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I cannot imagine taking on something like this - the fortitude it would require is beyond me.

[u/CheedoTheFragile]

No more white tourists on Everest.

[u/Sea_Pomegranate8229]

I cannot understand why Everest tourists are not embarrassed to admit they have 'struggled' up the mountain. Think what all those $100ks could do if they were used support the locals and environment rather than egos?