SAMA or Not? You better believe this dude is SAMA to the core. Meet Helmut Lintzbechler he lives about 30 minutes from Anna's hometown in Der Stiermark of Austria. He is 65 years old, and we have taught skiing and snowboarding with him for the past 5 years at Boyne Highlands. His list of masochistic adventures is long. Just to name a few; he completed the only race across American (3 months they ran from San Diego to New York, 40-60 miles a day). Yes I said running not biking. He has climbed all the 14 thousand peaks in North America, he will this fall climb the highest peak on Antartica to complete his quest of climbing all the highest peaks on every continent of planet Earth. It wouldn't suprise me if he headed to the moon next! He ran a marathon in all the 50 states, and now he puts Mount Everest on his list. The best part is after he summitted Everest he came back down and ran the Everest Base Camp Marathon. Dude, what does this guy eat???? He asked me this spring if I wanted to run the Grand Rapids marathon with him in October because he will be here for it. Of course my answer was sure, as long as the surfs not up.
So, the next time someone tells says your to old to do those things. Just reply, "You might be, but I'm not."
Rock on Helmut!! I only regret not giving him a SAMA shirt to hold up when he was at the summit of Everest. That would have been EPIC!!
2 comments:
Great Post Ben!!
That dude rocks the living day light out of us, and he's 65! I think SAMA should sponser him for sure.
He will be getting some swag to sport around Boyne this winter for sure! Dude, Helmut is insane!! I love that!!
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