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Press articles from 2005

Friendship Beyond Borders Expedition Press release
Friendship, Love, and Marriage Beyond Borders:
2004 Expedition's Sherpa Teammate Weds on Summit of Mount Everest (June 3, 2005)

MountEverest.net
No Mountain top too high, my Love (June 4, 2005)
Featuring wedding pictures of bride Moni Mulepati, 24, and groom Pem Dorjee Sherpa, 23 at Everest summit May 30, 11 a.m. local time, courtesy of Pemba Sherpa.

Kansas City Star
Wedding held atop Everest (June 4, 2005)

BBC World News
Wedding on top of Mount Everest (June 3, 2005)

Base Camp MD
MI-17 helicopter crashes in basecamp...again (June 2, 2005)
Picture from EverestNews.com

Duluth News Tribune
Mountain climber to present state flag (January 24, 2005)

Orange County Weekly
This Week In That's Incredible! Nawang Sherpa (January 5, 2005)

The Charlotte Observer
Rising above disability to climb Everest:
Charlotte native's aid helps Sherpa with prosthesis reach top of world (January 3, 2005)

Press articles from December 2004

News Flash ExplorersWeb.com gives special recognition to Nawang Sherpa and Friendship Beyond Borders Expedition in "Best of 2004" -- Expeditions that have contributed in an extraordinary way to the Spirit of Adventure in the year of 2004. Full story--
ExplorersWeb.com and MountEverest.net
Best of ExplorersWeb 2004 Awards (December 23, 2004)

Gentlemens' Quarterly -- GQ Magazine
The Bionic Mountaineer (December 2004 issue)

SuperTopo Climbers' Forum
Sherpa and Chris Sharma in GQ Magazine (December, 2004)

Press articles from November 2004
Budgeteer News
Hommer's legacy lives in foundation (November 5, 2004)

Press articles from July 2004
The Kathmandu Post / Kantipur Online
ESA honors Everest summiteer (July 26, 2004)
Gorkhapatra Daily--The Rising Nepal
Amputee Nawang Sherpa bags Everest Award (July 26, 2004)
Indo-Asian News Service
After Everest, one-legged Sherpa sets sights on Guinness (July 26, 2004)

Press articles from June 2004
ExplorersWeb.com and MountEverest.net
Exweb Everest Debrief: Nawang Sherpa Summit Video (June 21, 2004)
Everest summiteers Nawang and Tom party at Rum Doodle (June 1, 2004)
Nepal News Agency Everest Award (June 4, 2004)
NepalNews.com
Spotlight, Mountaineering: Cold Rush More than 1368 mountaineers have climbed atop the Mt. Everest in the last 51 years (June 4, 2004)
Hindustan Times
Nepal honours disabled summiteer with Everest Award (June 4, 2004)
The Nepali Times
Records tumble on Everest (June 4, 2004)
Kathmandu Post / Kantipur Online
Disabled Everester feted (June 4, 2004)

BasecampMD.com
Rum Doodle Signing (May 30,2004)
Summit fever (May 16,2004)
Play & practice in the icefall (May 3, 2004)

ExplorersWeb.com and MountEverest.net
Everest daily wrap up: Tons of summits more teams
making the push (May 17,2004)
Everest and Himalaya weekend WRAP (May 16,2004)
Ed Hommers TORCH on Mount Everest SUMMIT! (May 15, 2004)
Mount Everest summit push 2 - climbers below Balcony (May 15, 2004)
Read how prosthetist/orthotist Tom Halvorson has helped Nawang become an Everest extreme amputee going for summit (May 14, 2004)
Everest daily wrap up: To the summit! (May 14, 2004)
Everest Summit push is on - and this guy is leading the pack! (May 12, 2004)
Everest daily wrap up: Summit bids announced for weekend (May 12, 2004)
Everest daily wrap up: Season's first summit bid begins today! (May 10, 2004)
Hommers torch at Everest 7300m (May 5, 2004)

EverestNews.com
Amputee Sherpa Summits Everest (May 15, 2004)
First Ascent of Mt. Everest Planned by Sherpa Climber-Amputee and his American Friend (May 12, 2004)

Sunday Times--South Africa One-legged man climbs Everest (May 24, 2004)
Independent Online--Cape Town, South Africa
Climbing season starts on crowded Everest (May 16, 2004)

The Himalayan Times--Nepal First ascent to Everest summit in 2004 (May 16, 2004)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News
B.C. man among dozens who scaled Everest in
climbing season's first weekend (May 30, 2004)
Newspaper Articles
Flag from Carlton VFW close to Mt. Everest summit; Cloquet prosthetic expert waiting for satellite call from summit of world's tallest mountain, The Pine Journal, Minnesota, May 12, 2004 
Of Global Interest Adventure Journal (May 16, 2004)
Carolina Climbers Coalition
AdventureStats.com

Press articles from March and April 2004
ExplorersWeb.com and MountEverest.net A Polish Pole (April 6, 2004)
BasecampMD.com Our camp is blessed (April 6, 2004)
KRON-TV San Francisco Taking Artificial Limbs To New Heights (March 30, 2004)
The Himalayan Times--Nepal Sherpa to scale Everest with prosthetic leg (March 20, 2004)

Press articles from February 2004
The Rising Nepal Sherpa, an amputee, eyes Everest (February 27, 2004)
KRON-TV San Francisco Man To Climb Mt. Everest On One Leg (February 20, 2004)
The State.com--South Carolina
Amputee climber headed for Everest, with help from Duluth-made prostheses (February 17, 2004)
Duluth News Tribune Nepalese climber has high hopes (February 15, 2004)
Expedition Press Release
First Ascent of Mt. Everest Planned by Sherpa Climber-Amputee and American Friend, Joint AMB/Expedition Press Release, February 1, 2004  
ExplorersWeb.com and MountEverest.net
Nawang Sherpa to carry Hommer's torch to Everest summit (Feb 18, 2004)

Press articles from January 2004
Alaska Magazine
Fallen Climber Leaves Legs to Talkeetna Bar Article about Tom Halvorson returning Ed Hommer's prosthetic legs to Talkeetna, Alaska as was his wish (January 2004)

Video footage of Friendship Beyond Borders team in action
during their successful summit bid

Check news coverage of our expedition team at Google News

Our American-Nepali expedition was a team of
FRIENDS, BEYOND BORDERS OF CULTURES AND NATIONALITIES

Friends in Nepal...
Climbing Members: Tom McMillan and Nawang Sherpa
Our "dream team" of Cllmbing Sherpas:
Nima Tashi Sherpa, (our Climbing Sirdar and now 8 times Everest summiter), Nima Gombu Sherpa (now 10 times Everest summiter), and Pem Dorjee Sherpa (celebrating his first Everest summit)
Our talented Cook, Pemba Sherpa and his hardworking assistants
Base Camp Managers, Lincoln Else and Tim Roberts
Public Relations Manager, Linda McMillan

Friends back in the US...
Nawang's friend Steve Sheridan of Vail, Colorado set things in motion in 2000 when he arranged for Nawang to receive his first prosthetic leg from Walter Racette at UC San Francisco. Nawang's childhood friend Jangbu Sherpa of Colorado Springs has been instrumental in focusing media attention and sponsors to his efforts.
Another team of friends from THE HIGH EXPOSURE FOUNDATION rallied together to enable Nawang to walk and climb to the summit--Ed Hommer, Tom Halvorson and others from the Minnesota-based organization Learn more about the history of the High Exposure Foundation, and how the late Ed Hommer inspired people with disabilities to pursue their dreams, from a member of the HEF Board of Directors, Ms. Brandy Meadows.

Nawang talking to reporters in Kathmandu after his
return from the summit of Mount Everest, May 2004

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.

But THE HIGH EXPOSURE FOUNDATION, which he created, lives on. Nawang Sherpa's success on Mt. Everest is a testament to the success of the Foundation.

Ed Hommer posing with his friends (left to right) Tom Halvorson, Kelly Raymond (who climbed Denali with Ed in 1999), and Jim Wickwire (who attempted to climb Mt. Everest with Ed in 2001).

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