Extraordinary or larger than life characters you have known
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My closest friend in Indonesia is an Australian gentleman from Irish & German parents with quite a high-range distinctive name, born & raised in the bush, used to dig mines in Alaska, live fully the 70's in the whole north America in all excesses, became an engineer working on doors for rockets / shuttles, trafficked women and booze through Borneo & Papua, then settled in Java where he still is now. Funny smart guy, older than me, knows shitloads of various technical stuff in several languages.
Turns out there is many people with similar colorful lives, so i'm not sure exactly what extraordinary means to me anymore now that i met a lot of them. It's not the extraordinary meaning perception i had in mind decades earlier.
Big mouthed people being extravagant / flamboyant / extraverted, sure, here and there, but i'm less curious about them. I like the low profile ones.
Turns out there is many people with similar colorful lives, so i'm not sure exactly what extraordinary means to me anymore now that i met a lot of them. It's not the extraordinary meaning perception i had in mind decades earlier.
Big mouthed people being extravagant / flamboyant / extraverted, sure, here and there, but i'm less curious about them. I like the low profile ones.
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Skip Guerin, probably one of the best climbers in the world in the eighties. I met him in the 90's when we were both doing a lot of partying and flopping at the "house of pain" in Boulder. I had a room in the house and Skip was rebuilding his Alfa Romeo by himself in a friend's driveway nearby. I was still getting better at climbing then but I was never elite at all, just competent. I was always a student of that game and studied guidebooks and spoke with other great climbers about routes and heard a lot of ribald tales. Skip was such a regular guy and carried himself with no pretense whatsoever. After some imbibing I enjoyed asking him about the three or four routes he established that had never been repeated, at least not in the traditional ground up style that was the ethic of those days. It would take him an hour to say very little about the details of the first ascent, maybe he partied too much. He's still with us but no one seems to know where and what he is up to.
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Beat Richner from the Kantha Bopha childrens hospitals.
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OMG, It's a wonder no-one has met or even mentioned this Extraordinary character in your life. In case you haven't his name is mentioned in this book.
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