I agree with your second sentence but have to say hope this fella has a long and successful life.
He's obviously someone who knows his limits which for most of us is many bars below.
Never got to Yosemite. Been up to the Redwoods Mendocino San Francisco Area and San Diego as well as Lake Tahoe. Yosemite is a place I'd live to visit.
This guy is nuts but a legend.