ِEp 61: He Remortgaged His House to Climb 14 Mountains

So slightly sort of somber theme to today's show in terms of, what I'm bringing in, which is a couple of weekends ago, there was a tragic incident where someone that I've really grown to love, even though I've never met him, a chap by the He scaled the 14 tallest peaks in the world, the ones that are above 8,000 meters.

And he broke the record for doing it unaided without oxygen.

And in the shortest time ever, like six months, he scaled all 14.

The previous record was, I don't know, seven, eight years.

It could have even been more.

But he died tragically in an ascent of a mountain called Broad Peak in Pakistan a couple of weeks ago.

So the avalanche took him out along with all of his friends party that he was leading.

It really shook me because this is someone that I'd sort of fallen in love with through watching his documentary, reading his book.

He served as a Gurkha and then moved to the UK where he was part of the special boat service and was considered quite an elite member of the British army in terms of his accomplishments.

He then had a passion for climbing these 8,000 plus mountains and it was always a risk and something that he always acknowledged that it was a risk, but he didn't want to go back to serving in the army.

He just wanted to follow this passion, which was clearly making him feel more alive than anything else.

And you could genuinely see, you know, his love for doing it.

And it was, it was kind of infectious because it was the pursuit of doing the impossible.

that he was constantly striving for, but also uplifting the people of his nation, which were the unsung heroes.

So there was also this story about the Sherpas who accompany people on these journeys to scale these peaks.

And generally it's the Westerners who get all the accolades when they do it.

And the Sherpas get sort of left behind and marginalized, even though they're risking everything in the pursuit of helping people climb.

So he was pursuing his own life path, but at the same time, he wanted to shine a light on the great work that the Nepalese Sherpas were doing and wanted to really boost their visibility and recognition on a global stage.

And he just touched so many lives.

And even on LinkedIn... you know, so many people like paying tributes and saying how he'd helped them and given them hope and provided them with so much in terms of anything is possible and never give up.

And for me, it was this whole pursuit of the life path that kept ringing in my ear.

And I was like, I'm sure there's stuff that we can talk about, which is going to be so useful based on Nim's story.

So yeah, Yeah, over to you.

Okay.

Yeah, thank you.