Expedition
Updates
Watch
the Friendship Beyond Borders team in action
during their successful
summit bid!
June
21st
Expedition Debrief
June
11th
AMB
Celebrates Expedition's
success--Tom
thanks
CEO Hamid Moghadam and AMB
supporters
June
8th
Nawang Sherpa Wins 2004 EVEREST AWARD!
June
4th
Tom McMillan and Tim Roberts arrive back in the US
May
30th
•Expedition
Team honored by US officials and others
•Tom and Tim return to
the US on June 4th
•Tom shares his thoughts
about summit day
May
27th
First
summit photos arrive!
Team has become celebrities at home
and abroad
May
23rd, 2am Pacific time/2:45pm Nepali time
Team has arrived in back in Kathmandu
May
22nd
Team is in Lukla (9,350ft.), waiting for
weather to improve
May
19th
Team preparing to leave Base Camp, begin their trek back
to Lukla
May
18th
Team has returned safely to Base Camp (17,500ft.)
Weather was favorable and descent was speedy
Sunday
May 16th 7:55am
Nepali Time,
Saturday
May 15th 7:10pm Pacific Daylight
Time
Summit
Success!
The EVEREST: Friendship Beyond Borders Expedition
Team is on the SUMMIT!
May
14th
Team is at Camp 3 (24,500 ft.)
Expecting
Summit Day on Sunday May 16th
Note:
To see what Nawang and Tom are facing on this final section of the mountain,
you can view a brief but dramatic videoclip of climbers
ascending from Camp 4 at the South Col to the Summit. Amazing footage..
May
13th
Adios to Luanne and Lincoln
May
12th
Going for the summit!
May
10th
Everest
teams consider when to try for the summit
May
7th
Email update message from Base Camp Manager Lincoln Else
May
3rd
Base Camp Manager Lincoln
Else trades Yosemite Big Walls for Everest Big Ice
May
2nd
Camp III (24,442ft.)
acclimatization completed, time to rest and prepare for final summit bid
April
20th
Saying goodbye to
Base Camp
April
19th
Pushing to Camp II
(21,325ft.)
April
11th
Icefall Journeys
and establishment of Camp I (19,586ft.)
April
6th
Settling in at Everest
base camp (17,500ft.)
April
2nd
Acclimatizing by scaling
Island Peak (20,252ft.)
March
21st
Beautiful but
hair-raising flight from Kathmandu to Lukla (9,350ft.), start of trek
March
17th
Arrival in Kathmandu,press/embassy
meetings,preparations for the trek
February
2004
Nawang
visits
the U.S. to prepare for the expedition
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Here is our team approaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 16th in perfect conditions--clear skies and calm winds !
You can
read accounts of all the teams that attempted to climb Everest this season,
both from the south (Nepal) side and from the north (Tibet) side, on the websites
listed below. They also contain some amazing video clips of what the teams
faced along their way up Mount Everest: ExplorersWeb.com
and MountEverest.net
The late
Ed Hommer, our team's
role model and Guardian Angel...
Background Information
about Ed Hommer
The late Ed Hommer
was the first double amputee to reach the summit of Mt. McKinley in June 1999,
and he made an attempt on Mt. Everest (from Tibet) in 2001. He met Nawang
Sherpa in Kathmandu on his return from Everest, and had intended to make another
attempt in 2003 with Nawang, But Ed was tragically killed by rockfall on Mt.
Rainier in September of 2002.
Learn more about the history of the High Exposure Foundation, and how Ed Hommerinspired people with disabilities to pursue their dreams,, from a member of the HEF Board of Directors, Ms. Brandy Meadow