Brevity by Dan Thompson for October 20, 2011

I wonder how many people aren’t going to get this one.

Tenzing paid a steep price for his attempts at social climbing.

It’s gotten to the point where more people remember the Sherpa than Sir Edmund.

(Getting older by the minute, this reminds me that when I was a kid nobody had ever climbed Everest. Or run a 4-minute mile. Or walked on the moon. But at least there is that much less history to study because I remember it.)

Barefoot no less.I actually did a GIS for Sherpa children and the only ones I saw were toddlers.

Climb every mountain!

That looks like Mt. Fuji to me. Did he travel halfway around the world to hide the flag? Because that would be a good joke.

I didn’t have to Google Tenzing Norgay but I DID Google GIS, and I still don’t know what it is.

The only one I knew anything about (and not much) is the geographical survey kind but I don’t understand how it could be for Sherpa kids.

Larry??

And Schearer — me too.

himalaya big guilt trip on young comic sherpa

Is it really you, my friend? Sounds like it – very funny.If so, welcome back.

you have mail

No, but you do.Meant to say, working “Comic Sherpa” into that was brilliant.How did everyone else miss it?