EVEREST: Friendship Beyond Borders Expedition
First
Attempt, One Artificial Leg, Trained Enroute, Summit Success
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Quick Facts: Our expedition team climbed the South Col Route on Mt. Everest.This is the route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
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Sunday May 16th at 7:45am (Nepali time) the 29,035ft (8848 meters) summit was reached. The team rejoiced on the summit for about 90 minutes, and then returned to Camp 4 (26,100ft.), On May 18th they returned to Base Camp (17,600ft.). Linda McMillan and Lincoln Else returned to California in May. Tom McMillan returned to California June 4, 2004.
Everest Expedition Updates
Watch
the Friendship Beyond Borders team in action
during their successful
summit bid (5 minute movie)
2005
Friendship
Beyond Borders News Updates
What's next for
the Friendship Beyond Borders team?
December
23rd
Special
recognition to Nawang Sherpa and Friendship Beyond Borders Expedition
in MountEverest.net "Best Expeditions of 2004"
Best of ExplorersWeb 2004 Awards
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 arrives 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 Day
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
9th
Update call from Expedition Leader Tom McMillan--Team back at base camp,
waiting for weather to stabilize
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
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
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
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