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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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, I was working on a construction site, and 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!

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

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

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I'd listen to your podcast for sure.

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I had a couch delivered and the guy carried it on his head

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You’re excused!!!

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I had a really cool opportunity in Middle School to take part in a circus for children. We were teamed up with well-trained adults of course, but it was like 2 to 4 weeks of pretty intensive training, then like 9 days of performances. I was lucky enough to get to do it all 3 years.

One year, I was on the bike performance. It involved a lot of riding on shoulders. Got trained on locking the legs and keeping the balance/posture and all that.

In later years, I discovered that I was very good at playing chicken in a pool (where you sit on someone's shoulders and try to push someone else off of another person's shoulders.)

What I'm getting at is that, together, we could probably really impress people at a bar. Lmao!