8848 doesn't seem like an impossible number nor does the thought that human
beings have managed to scale that height. Especially when you compare those thoughts
to man landing on the moon or falling from the stratosphere or even seeing base jumpers fly
off buildings. 8848 is just a number. But what happens to our senses when the words
highest, tallest, earth largest, get thrown into that descriptive arena
why does it make us feel just a little more alive?
[Mount Everest] 8848 metres above sea level
you've probably got your own reasoning or even your own set of numbers that you're competing
against on a daily basis and they may not stack up against the world's highest or the earth's highest
but they may just make you feel a little more alive and i guess that's what i'm getting at here.
I'm currently in Nepal and i'm attempting to reach the world's most remote irish pub it's 3445 metres
above sea level in a country landlocked by China and India and from where i'm sitting right now,
in this departure lounge, waiting to board possibly the world's most dangerous flight
it'll take roughly two days trekking to get to the Irish Pub, that's what's making me feel
alive. Trying our best to make this optimistic and positive as possible but luckily there's three of
us that are they're gonna do that so uh stay tuned um pray for the team and for us and our patients
so i'm on a mission to reach the world's most remote or alternatively others like to label
it the world's highest Irish Pub. Two labels which certainly excite me but there's currently
three of us so why have three lads from separate parts of the world joined forces on a mysterious
adventure and what could they possibly find in something so remote that means something so
dearly to Irish culture? I mean, they say good things come in threes but there's only one pub
and what even is a pub? In his 17th century diary, Samuel Pepys described the pub as the heart of
England and if you've ever met an Irishman in a bar you could probably escalate that heart just a
little larger. Irish pubs have been at the center of communities in Ireland for as long as people
can remember. You see a pub or public house is an establishment license to sell alcoholic beverages.
Traditionally it would include beers and ciders, whiskeys but through my lived experience i know
pubs is social establishments places that really do bring people together.
Lads lads all right we have made it to one of the most epic spots in Nepal right now,
right up in the Himalayas and this is the Hillary Bridge. The highest bridge we've
crossed the whole time that we'll cross, it's highest one. I mean, if you're afraid of heights
i would be uh i probably wouldn't want to hang out here for too long but look at this view.
You certainly don't have to twist my arm when it comes to an adventure. Besides hiking two
thousand eight hundred meters in elevation isn't for the faint-hearted. Yeah the boys
All right let's get in there. Look this is the world's most remote Irish Pub.
You see this one bottle of Jameson Triple Triple is the glue that's bound this whole
book together. This can only be bought in airports. So we had to fly somewhere.
Right?
So what's the moral of this story? It's probably that a good pub
brings people together and a remote Irish one, no matter how far or how
high or how many days it takes to get there, it's always worth the adventure.
a film
by Jake Rich