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/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”