Friday, November 7, 2025

The Indomitable Human Spirit

This is me today after I got back from the gym. 

And these are my steps and calories. 

But that's nothing compared to what I witnessed on Youtube today. I have never seen anything like it and will probably never see anything like it again. A man climbs Everest -- and then skies back down from its summit. And it's all captured by drone. 

I can't believe what I just saw. This is something I never thought I would ever witness. And he did it without supplemental oxygen. This is insane. For the first time ever, climbing Mount Everest was the easy part. 

I once told my family I would be climbing a tall peak. They thought I was talking about Everest. Had I started my fitness journey 40 years ago, I might have attempted it. To me it's the ultimate challenge in mountaineering. 

The indomitable human spirit.