Corey’s Feel Good Stories: Fri. 6/2: Mount Everest Sherpa Saves Climber’s Life / 14-Year-Old Walks 6 Miles To Graduation Is Rewarded

1.  A Sherpa who guides people up Mount Everest recently saved a climber’s life after finding him stuck in a section near the summit called the “death zone.”  The guy was clinging to a rope and shivering from the cold.

It took six hours to get him down to a spot where he could be airlifted out.  And he couldn’t walk, so the Sherpa CARRIED him for a lot of it.  Experts say rescuing someone up that high is very rare, and “almost impossible.”  But the guy survived.

2.  This kid’s going places:  A 14-year-old in St. Louis named Xavier Jones walked six miles to get to his middle-school graduation last week.  And when someone at the graduation mentioned it, he got a standing ovation.

One of those people was Dr. Latonia Collins Smith, who’s the president of Harris-Stowe State University.  She was so impressed, she’s giving Xavier a FULL SCHOLARSHIP when he’s ready for college.

When they told him he was getting a “full ride,” he thought they just meant a ride to school.  They had to tell him it was much better than that.