Ant Middleton has parlayed his exceptional SBS service into a mini-franschise. Sadly, with his latest account, he’s documented an entitled, privileged and narcissistic account of a mediocre Everest journey. Even as he pushes arrogantly ahead he arranges a helicopter to land him for four days at the Irish pub at the Hotel Yeti to get sloshed for four days. The account is culturally disrespectful and essentially bad mouths anyone who may have a slightly different perspective than the man himself. For someone who didn’t want any attention at all to his Everest journey to write a book and make a documentary about it, he comes across as profoundly selfish, hopelessly naive and well, plain mean. Being an incredible door kicker, as it turns out, isn’t enough to be a good leader, make good decisions, trash talk everyone and everybody while having zero self-awareness while lecturing the test of the world. I am sure the SBS rejoiced when this guy got his red book.