On the eve of the Everest movie premiere, survivor Beck Weathers is a changed man

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• JA

  @jameshoran8 · 10 years ago

  That helicopter pilot that got him off the mountain at 21,000 feet when 17,000 was the max the copter could fly was the real hero.

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• JL

  @jlb8830 · 10 years ago

  "If you can't learn from dying, then you're definitely a slow learner".  TOP LINE !

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• JJ

  @JJJ_JJ1 · 1 year ago

  I’ve officially watched every Everest video that exists on YouTube.

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• GI

  @GinaGreenlee · 7 years ago (edited)

  "Life is better when you can get to the point when you can live comfortably in your own skin and not try to define yourself by achievements alone." AMEN.

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• AZ

  @azspotfree · 5 years ago

  It is pretty amazing that this dude woke up from hypothermic coma in the midst of the blizzard and walked off Everest on his own after having been evaluated and abandoned for dead by rescuers. Truly astonishing.

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• PH

  @PhilippUnterreiner · 5 years ago

  People who are arguing whether he is a "badass" or not clearly missed the point of his speech and the message of this video. It doesn't really matter how much you achieve- what matters is the quality of your relationships in life. I'd say thank you for sharing that message

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• 5S

  @5SPARROWS1959 · 2 years ago

  He had no choice but to be humbled. All of The rescuers and his wife are really the heroes in this. She was brave to take him back and not file for divorce as she had planned

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• PU

  @Puppatoons · 10 years ago

  Beck had a big scare that showed him what is more important in life and he's honest about it. I call that pretty badass.And he likes cats!

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• PA

  @paulagonzalez1721 · 8 years ago

  I love this man's sense of humor in the midst of his experiences.Extraordinary!

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• FR

  @frankmackenzie8163 · 7 years ago

  Real shit. This man knows what’s important. My father used to be a mountaineer. He quit after coming so close to death so many times and not being deterred, but seeing his friend terribly injured while the two of them were working on a track together (I think he blamed himself) and being left for dead in the Andes made him come to terms with how absurdly dangerous mountaineering is, how folly it is to think you’re invincible in the face of nature when you could just be taken from your family just like that. His old climbing buddy, Andy Harris, was killed in the 1996 Everest tragedy shortly after - he was a guide on the trip and set out into certain death to look for his friend Rob Hall, another NZ guide who my father also knew - possibly the most experienced climber in New Zealand. My father says the filmed portrayed them both well. He hates when people say that Andy ‘died doing what he loved’ - no one loves freezing to death in the death zone of Everest, in the knowledge that others from your party are dying too. I think it was a very sobering incident for the mountaineering community.

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• FR

  @FRiKiJDM · 10 years ago

  Say whatever you want, Beck is a badass.

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• LA

  @laurajaynenolan2149 · 5 years ago (edited)

  He was abandoned and left for dead several times and doesn’t hold any grudges. Do you know how special you have to be to be able to do that? What a man, what a hero 😊❤️

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