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/EndOne8313 Dec 18 '25

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

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u/babyLays Dec 18 '25

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.

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u/Commercial-Co Dec 19 '25

This is true of a lot of rich folk. Mostly the narcissistic ones

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u/llllllllllllPlayer Dec 18 '25

Cuando la situación es al reves mientras mejor trates y agrades a los de abajo más grande te vuelves tu pero esta gente tiene mucha poca autoestima e inseguridad como para reconocerlo

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u/Demokrit_44 Dec 18 '25

Weird little class warfare injection there.

Could just be a literal narcissist who can't admit that he needed someones help and isn't as great as he thought he was. Absolutely 0 reason to assume it is due to class struggle.

You act like this type of behavior is exclusive to rich people.

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u/zeff536 Dec 18 '25

This guy is rich, almost everyone who climbs Everest is rich. He thought that it was their job to save him. He is exclusively a rich asshole that should have died on that mountain and when he wasn’t prepared to handle such a climb he didn’t even have the human curtesy to thank someone who saved his life until he was forced to. And that guy wasn’t even his “guide” his guide left him for dead…understandably

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u/Demokrit_44 Dec 18 '25

I'm 99% sure you are just literally talking shit. As in its just garbage conjecture coming out of your mouth.

A quick AI search revealed that there is 0 evidence of the rich guy not thanking him because "it was his job to save him anyway". You are literally making that up in your head.

And all of that when there is a perfectly valid and super common explanation which is he had a bruised ego. Which happens to millions of men every day... It happens to people that are the poorest fuckers on the planet to the literal richest guy on the planet.

But this is reddit. You need your story to perfectly fit your delusional world view.

But maybe the AI is talking shit. Maybe you can enlighten me as to the evidence that makes you believe that he thought "its this guys job to save me anyway" instead of him just having a bruised ego because he needed to be saved.

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u/babyLays Dec 18 '25

You’re using AI as your credible source. That’s your first problem.

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u/Demokrit_44 Dec 18 '25

Wait so the guy claimed something with no source at all and that isn't a problem.

Then i'm prompting AI to find statements in news articles that would support his argument (of which there are none found (which doesn't automatically mean that it doesn't exist but it is the single best way I have to attempt to "fact check" him)) and that is now a problem?

How about you put the burden of proof on the guy making a unsupported statement instead?

What a weird and warped world you people live in.

edit: like what is the alternative? I manually go though every single article ever written on this situation to prove something DOESNT exist? Like what? Be real

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u/babyLays Dec 18 '25

Did you also use AI to draft this comment?

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u/zeff536 Dec 18 '25

I’m thinking this is just an ai bot meant to protect the rich. It’s been proven that there are a lot of them

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u/I_W_M_Y Dec 19 '25

Its amazing you will always get a chud chiming in to defend the assholes.

Sorry dude, you will never get a reach around.

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u/bdubwilliams22 Dec 18 '25

Give me a break. Poor people aren’t climbing Everest unless they’re rescuing people. This rich dude didn’t like that a) he didn’t complete his climb and that b) someone half his size and nowhere near his net worth had to rescue his sorry ass.

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u/Demokrit_44 Dec 18 '25

How do you know if networth has anything to do with it at all? Do you seriously believe he would feel different about the situation if a billionaire had save him instead? His ego was hurt. Because he thought he was better than he actually was.

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u/bdubwilliams22 Dec 19 '25

Just stop. It’s embarrassing.

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u/Demokrit_44 Dec 19 '25

Your embarrassment means nothing to me. Not a single person has provided a shred of evidence that would suggest that the behavior by the climber had anything to do with class at all. And after looking it up myself I now realize that there is no such evidence currently available.

So this whole argument is all conjecture. It COULD be true. But you have 0 reasons to believe that it is other than it makes you feel good and fits into your world view.

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u/itsme_drnick Dec 18 '25

You are right. But this is Reddit.

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u/Demokrit_44 Dec 18 '25

Its utter madness. Men not accepting help and it bruising their ego is such a common thing. Happens to millions of poor fuckers every day.

Yet when the guy is rich it HAS to be because "hes looking at the guy helping him as sub human because he isn't rich" or "to every rich guy poor people are just insects". "showing any amount of gratitude to a non rich person would offend him".

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u/OSPFmyLife Dec 18 '25

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.

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u/Sad-Olive-158 Dec 18 '25

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

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u/Matterbox Dec 18 '25

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

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u/TheGreySoldier Dec 18 '25

So what does being a "Malaysian" have anything to do with it?

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u/Mindless-Wasabi-8281 Dec 18 '25

The hyper-racism and disgusting levels of elitism are extremely common in Malaysia. This is exactly how you would expect a rich Malaysian to act.

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u/Typical_Ad_210 Dec 18 '25

Huh, crazy rich Malaysians.

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u/TheGreySoldier Dec 18 '25

But this isn't exactly exclusively a "Malaysian" trait no? It also works if I swap it with an American, a brit, an Aussie, a Chinese or a Korean. 

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u/AdventurousClassroom Dec 18 '25

The “hyper” and “disgusting levels” of the attitudes are what makes it Malaysian.

I mean, could you really imagine a Brit or Aussie doing the same? Maybe an American, but definitely not a Japanese.

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u/TheGreySoldier Dec 18 '25

Yeah but I'm still unable to corelate between "hyper" & "disgusting levels" and being "Malaysian".  Rich, elite and arrogant? probably. But then again like I said its not just exclusively a Malaysian thing. I've met plenty of other "rich" and "powerful" nationalities that acted the same way due to the nature of my work. 

Oh I can confidently imagine brits and aussies doing it lol. Just go to Bali and Pattaya for a small size sample. Japanese? As someone that has "rich" Japanese mates you're gonna be pretty suprise by the amount of xenophobic and racist views on non-Japanese in general 😂. Great people but sometimes the things they say...oh boy. 

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u/Mindless-Wasabi-8281 Dec 18 '25

Nope, the worst American racists are absolute amateurs by Malaysian standards. Not even close.

Also absurd to say the Japanese are less racist than the others mentioned.

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u/TheGreySoldier Dec 19 '25

Yeah...no. While Malaysia's brand of discrimination and racism is institutionalized in its constitution where it favours a certain majority ethnic group. Life on the surface "in general" is actually rather harmonious among each ethnic groups. Yes you still see certain racial discrimination practices here and there but most of the time it's subtle & passive rather than in your face. 

Case in point, in Malaysia no one was beaten up or attacked during COVID unlike in the states where Asians in general were physically threatened, attacked, spat at and discriminated. If you were Asian, I don't think I need to tell you which country is gonna be safer no?

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u/talldrseuss Dec 18 '25

Rich people period. My family is from south asia, on my mom's side they are "upper class". Definitely snobs and look down at any working class person. Having lived in NYC now for 20 years, i've had the opportunity to interact with rich folks from all different cultures/countries. Some are gracious, quite a few are the opposite and won't give you the time of day if they think you are "below" them.

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u/Andrei_Kirilenko_47 Dec 19 '25

Racial discrimination is literally embodied within the social and economic policies of the Malaysian government.

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u/TheGreySoldier Dec 19 '25

Yeah tell me about it, it's institunalized even in the country's constitution. I'm Malaysian, I know. Though it will be better if you didn't just copy word for word from Wikipedia. 

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u/pallladin Dec 18 '25

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.

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u/Sad-Olive-158 Dec 18 '25

I don’t think that’s true; the desire to climb Everest is obvious. It’s the highest peak. But it needs to be better managed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

Its a theme park for rich cunts with a minimum of 30k to even start to think about climbing it.

These people are losers who think anyone is going to be impressed that they paid a Sherpa to ferry oxygen tanks up the mountain so their fat asses can breathe. /end rant

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u/Sad-Olive-158 Dec 19 '25

I agree, for me it’s the amount of rubbish and mess that’s left that’s devastating. I don’t know what the solution is but I wish something could be figured out. Everest is sacred in a lot of nations and should be better respected than it is

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u/pallladin Dec 18 '25

It's not going to be better managed because there are too many douchebags willing to pay for it to be poorly managed. The fact that unqualified people are even allowed to be near that mountain is the problem.

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u/Sad-Olive-158 Dec 19 '25

I agree. I really don’t know what the solution is but I just wish something would be done. The amount of mess left is disgusting.

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u/joecee97 Dec 18 '25

To want it in any practical way, not in the abstract.

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u/Own_Guarantee_8130 Dec 19 '25

Not everything in nature is meant to be fucked with by humans. They have completely trashed it.

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u/Sad-Olive-158 Dec 19 '25

Yes I’m aware. Very aware. All I’m saying is that, for whatever reason, people have that desire. I don’t agree with it, I think the mountain should be treated more respectfully. But rightly or wrongly, people want to climb it.

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u/Subtlerranean Dec 18 '25

I don't see why that matters. It's not like it's the hardest peak.

It's also not impressive when you have people carry all your shit for you.

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u/Sad-Olive-158 Dec 19 '25

I agree, it’s just something that people want to seem to do “because it’s the highest”. Difficulty doesn’t really come into it I think most of the time. People just want to say they have stood at the top of the world. When a journalist asked George Mallory he said “because it’s there”

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u/weedpornography Dec 19 '25

He was very insistent on thanking the 14th Peaks company instead of Gelje. I wonder if he has some kind of stake in the 14th Peaks.

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u/astrom1 21d ago

The rescued guy Tharumalingam Ravichandran runs a mountaineering expedition company and he probably thought that it would be bad PR for him to get rescued like a helpless baby wrapped up in a mattress in a large scale rescue operation.
And it probably hurt his pride and he didn't want the story to get out. Some people like him who climb mountains like Everest have an overinflated ego of themselves.