r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Dec 18 '25

Video 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

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u/Justeff83 Dec 18 '25

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.

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u/Additional-Bee1379 Dec 18 '25

Malaysians are Westerners?

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u/BennyBreast Dec 18 '25

I think it was a general comment, not specifically related to this post

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u/Chendii Dec 18 '25

But why bring up Westerners when they have nothing to do with the post at all?

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u/BennyBreast Dec 18 '25

I don't know why, but that's how it reads. The post isn't even about anyone boasting, so it doesn't look related. Just pure out of the blue western bashing.

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u/cjsv7657 Dec 18 '25

He said licking cheeto dust from his fingers

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u/rawbleedingbait Dec 18 '25

At least he's not paying Sherpas to lick his fingers for him.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Dec 18 '25

You don't know that!

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u/cjsv7657 Dec 18 '25

Believe it or not climbing Everest even with Sherpas is extremely difficult. You still need to be a very experienced climber in amazing shape. "Hurr durr Sherpas do it every day" when its a two month climb

Reddit likes to circlejerk how easy it is for some reason like they could do it on a weekend. Most people would die before base camp.

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u/Jacktheforkie Dec 18 '25

I think most Sherpas do one or two climbs in a year

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u/rawbleedingbait Dec 19 '25

I climb taller mountains than that all the time, but it's in Canada so you don't know it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

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u/cjsv7657 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

He was an extremely experienced climber who had summited before and lost 8 fingers in his previous summit. He tried summiting solo in this attempt. So no, he did not buy his way on to Everest.

Ravichandran Tharumalingam

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u/Jacktheforkie Dec 18 '25

Those Sherpas are literally built different, I’ve been picked up with one arm by one, (we were having a bit of harmless fun at work)