In keeping with the theme of peculiar patents we turn our attention to ‘firsts’ of another kind.
We remember the first plane flight, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon.
Even the longest fart.
Apologies, the most extended flatulent.
Records are made to be broken or so we are told. Indeed many agree with the sentiment.
When asked why he, George Mallory, decided to climb Everest, he replied….
Because it’s there.
George Mallory
It puts me in mind of an old episode of Jeremy Clarksons’ Motorworld.
In an episode from Iceland a man made a statement regarding why they were building cars to deliberately try to climb nearly vertical hills.
The land exists as a sort of challenge, it’s put there to challenge us, to test us. We must accept.
Random Icelandic Bad-ass
So who exactly was the first person to throw themselves headfirst off a bridge, or eat dinner & the dishes?
With this I present to you an 8 part series –
Dem Big Feats
Davo Karnicar arrived at base camp of Everest in just 5 hours after skiing down. The 37 year old Slovenian who is known as an extreme skier pushed off the summit at approximately 8:00 on the 7th October 2000 making quite the feat indeed.
Oh he also later went on to ski down the highest peak in every continent completing his insanely radical conquest on Mt Vinson in Antarctica on the 11th of November 2006.
THE NECROMANCER 