Oppulance, I has it.
Posted on 08/26/2010 7:57:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
And from another source "has climbed all the world's highest peaks" (a hard thing to do, because the way superlatives work, each time he climbs one, there's always a next-highest peak to climb).
Okay, so he HAS climbed Everest twice.
I can't find any record of him climbing K2, so the second-highest peak appears to be out. Nor any mountaineering record of Kangchenjunga, nor Lhotse, nor Makalu, nor Cho Oyu. Ditto Dhaulagiri I, Manaslu, Nanga Parbat, or Annapurna I.
So he's climbed the Earth's highest peaks, but as far as I can tell, of the ten highest, he's climbed one. And I went to his official website and checked the biography and list of accomplishments. Everest, twice. Check. Other mountains, not so much.
And although he's made it to the South Pole, I'm betting Sven, my stuffed warthog head, that he didn't climb Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica, so maybe he hasn't climbed the highest peak on each continent.
But, by golly, he's climbed the Earth's highest peaks, plural. Good on 'ya, mate.
Which means I hope the Arc of the Covenant part of the story has a little more meat on its bones than the whole highest-peaks-cimbing part.
If he brings a U.S. flag with him he has the chance to make Sheila Jackson Lee's day.
I think the internet age has actually multiplied this sort of con man behavior in the culture. People can now achieve fame and fortune through deceit and lies, so much more easily than they once could, via social networking and such.
This fraud will soon have his own devoted following of glazed-eyed groupies, all salivating at his every word.
And here we sit. Wasting our talents by posting for free on FR. LOL
LOL...That was the first thing that came to my mind when I read all the things he's supposed to have accomplished.
But has he been to Disney World?
Sorry to hear that you've been idle, Windflier. Since posting, I've climbed both Gasherbrum I & II (but not in that order), won the Professional Bull Riders championship, perfected Scoutmaster Pulled Pork™, swum the Amazon (upstream), revoked California's Statehood, and shaved Padma Lakshmi's legs (found her ticklish spot, by the way).
Oh. And I took a nap.
LOL! You ought to get paid to write like that!
Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef turned travelogue tv host, got to see the covenant at Axum by offering the priest/guard a pack of Marlboro Reds.
And he and his cameramen got the exchange on camera, though the cameraman didn’t get inside.
Pretty dang hilarious travelogue TV programming.
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