The People You Meet.

On the summit of a 14,505' mountain.




















The photos from my White Mountain, Mt Whitney and Death Valley weekend HERE.

No sooner did we finish the seven-hour, 11 1/2 mile and 6700' vertical climb of Mt Whitney (2nd 14'er in 3 days...), did I hear a voice with a Scottish accent behind me say "Are you a skydiving instructor?" Before I turned around, I checked to see if I was wearing anything indicating as such, and when I saw that I wasn't I said "Yes... how did you know?" He said "You took my brother on a tandem in July of 2005 . I was there with him that day, and then we went to Half Dome the next... he played his bagpipes on the top." Quite a few of my past tandem students have remembered me, and approach me in bars and such, but this was different.

Here's the crazy part:

I looked right at the guy and said "I saw the video on YouTube a while back... it's awesome... I loved it!"

I love how small the world can be... especially with interesting people! Here's the video: