These are exactly the sort of people I think are not cool. In particular, I’d hate to see them in charge of any project bigger than going out drinking. And even then you’d want to bow out at some point before it got dangerously crazy.
Imagine this personality in charge of a military unit or a business. I think utter destruction would be the likely outcome in both cases.
Well I know of at least one other famous climber (Nims Purja) who was part of the SBS in the UK military and was quite well respected during his time of service. So I don’t think it’s universally true that all people willing to take big risks climbing are unsuited for leadership.
As it turns out, he did! He climbed all 14 mountains over 8000 meters in just seven months, and nearly died several times in the attempt. I’ve been very slowly writing a post about him over the past few months which I hope to post soon.
These are exactly the sort of people I think are not cool. In particular, I’d hate to see them in charge of any project bigger than going out drinking. And even then you’d want to bow out at some point before it got dangerously crazy.
Imagine this personality in charge of a military unit or a business. I think utter destruction would be the likely outcome in both cases.
Well I know of at least one other famous climber (Nims Purja) who was part of the SBS in the UK military and was quite well respected during his time of service. So I don’t think it’s universally true that all people willing to take big risks climbing are unsuited for leadership.
Fair point. I do wonder if he ever took the kind of extreme risks in climbing described in this post.
As it turns out, he did! He climbed all 14 mountains over 8000 meters in just seven months, and nearly died several times in the attempt. I’ve been very slowly writing a post about him over the past few months which I hope to post soon.