The generous comic mouth laughs easily, but there is a lot of living and some pain printed in the eyes.
The world’s most famous redhead Jamie O’Brien, the almost-forty-year-old vlogger from Pipeline Beach on Oahu, has completed the fabled surf and snowboard in one day following a trip to the reefs of Hawaii’s Big Island and the slopes of the volcano Mauna Kea.
The unlikely looking O’Brien, famous for his slowly disappearing crown of salmon-coloured hair, body with the pallid meat smoothly trowelled on and cheeks like painted peaches, assaults the task of surfing and snowboarding with excessive vigour.
It ain’t easy, but O’Brien has a positive genius for making things happen, a continuing reproof to those in the surf industry who said he’d never make it etc.
The generous comic mouth laughs easily, but there is a lot of living and some pain printed in the eyes.
The Big Island, of course, is one of the few places on earth where you can be surfing in trunks in the morning and gasping for breath at 13,500 feet, fingernails turning blue, a few hours later.