This weekend I carried another woman on my back across a creek as a smallfat man found it too hard To preface, I'm a female and I'm fairly fit. I like to hike backcountry and occasionally organize/join group trips with strangers on sites like MeetUp or Facebook groups. This time, we had some experienced hikers and two first-timers, both of them girls. We had to cross a small creek which was extremely cold. I have crossed some glacial rivers with an overnight pack in my time, including those that rose to my waist, so I crossed this creek quite easily - it was fairly narrow and only to my mid-shin. Everyone crossed, but one of the newbie hikers found the ice water intolerable as her feet hurt too bad. She felt really embarrassed and said she would camp alone on the other side of the creek, but I said it would ruin the group experience and we had to find a way to get her across. She was very slim, later she told me she is only 110 lbs at 5'9". As those of us who had already crossed discussed our options, I said "One of us could carry her across the creek, I doubt she weighs more than 110-115 lbs" and I looked in the direction of the biggest person in our group, a 5'11" 195 lbs smallfat who spent half the hike up talking about his love of pizza, beers, and wings and bragging about how he managed to go from 160 to 195 in 3 months last winter. He proceeded to laugh, pat his fat gut, and tell me "Why don't you do it, I'm too fat!" I then went across the creek (crossing #2), the other girl got her legs around my waist and her arms around my shoulders, and I carried her across easily (crossing #3). I then crossed back to get her backpack and shoes (crossings #4 and #5). The girl was really grateful to me and later on the way home, after we dropped everyone else off, told me how she couldn't believe that the fat guy didn't do it and instead, another woman had to carry her across. Fin.