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WHO'S CLIMBING
EVEREST IN 2010' 
Everest
News Coverage 2010'
 "Fergus
White, (Irish) 37, is from Dublin Ireland. He’s trying to climb
Everest simply because it’s there. The highest he has been before is
6,300m on Mt Pumori last year, also with Peak Freaks. Off the mountains,
he has spent the last 10 years working on banking IT projects around the
world. He’ s worked in about 10 countries and travelled to about 40
countries in that time. He’s single and ordinarily would sooner be on
a beach with a beer than stuck up a mountain in the snow."
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| "Pete
Solie - One of the luckiest guys milling around the planet. He's
married to the lovely Kathryn Aasen. "Honey I know our
anniversary is coming June 5th. If all goes well, I'll be
back on time with the Yak cheese you've sent me in search of!"
Pete appreciates his Scandinavian heritage and figures this climb is
all about fulfilling some instinctive Norse right of passage, like
spawning without the mating then dying part. He's from good stock
growing up in the U.S. and has enjoyed a stupendous career in the Air
Force. He's passionate about the environment and will be seeking
Jazz drum lessons upon his return home. Ask him about running,
space, and hotdogs and you've got a friend. Fortunate to have all of
his needs met, along with friends, family and good health, he's full of
piss, vinegar and gratitude. More than anything else, Pete hopes to
bring smiles to his expedition team and extra oomph when it's needed most.
What he hopes to return with from this grand adventure, is to have
beaten back fear, to have listened and learned from others, made a few
more friends and to have given them something in return, with a
renewed passion for the next chapter in life. He carries the
nickname Publius Festus, has a smashed penny collection and hopes to be
driving an old '46 Chevy pick up truck in city parades with his wife and
bulldog, Mr. Brutus. He considers himself more of a city mouse and
if you were to look into his future, he'll be living near the ocean,
traveling the world in wonder and merriment, picking up trash along the
way. Cheers to anyone reading this, and if you've got time, he'll
have the beer."
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 "Mark
"Mango" Mangles (Australian) is a electronics engineering
currently working as the Information and Communications Technology Manager
for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in north
Queensland
,
Australia
. He is married to Brigid and
has two children, Steven 22 and Nicole 18.
Mango has a passion for the outdoors and adventure and each
year leads a youth expedition to a developing country for a month.
He has many years of climbing experience mainly in
Australia
and
New Zealand
. In 2007 Mango made his first
trip to
Nepal
and become the first to summit the newly opened
Baden
Powell
Peak
(5718m). In 2008 he attempted
Mt Pumori with Peak Freaks but conditions unfortunately made summiting not
possible. As well as climbing,
Mango enjoys kayaking, scuba-diving, bushwalking, caving and anything
adventurous."
"Adventure
before dementia"
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 TA
Loeffler- (Canadian)
Everest 2010: Mountain of
Learning
Climbing the world’s
highest peak requires a mountain of inspiration. For my second attempt
on Everest, I am looking to my Oma, my grandmother Frida Loeffler, for
the power, confidence, and strength to tackle such an enormous challenge
again. In taking on Everest once more, I know much more clearly the
sacrifice, the pain, and the focus required to climb the world’s
highest mountain. It is that clear picture that makes it both harder and
easier to choose to go back. It is in finding my way through the joys
and sorrows of starting over again that I will turn to my Oma for
motivation for I know how often she has had to start again.
I am naming my Everest
Expedition “Mountain of Learning.” This name is imbued with
multiple meanings. For me, the path of climbing mountains has been a
deeply spiritual one. I look to learn from all parts of the expedition
from training to approach to the actual climb. I am also an educator.
A huge part of this journey has been sharing my learning from the
mountains with students both young and old. I will continue with my
youth outreach programs encouraging young people to be physically
active and to have big dreams. In partnership with Recreation
Newfoundland and Labrador, we invite you to participate in the
"Step UP to the Summit" challenge. Visit http://www.recreationnl.com/smallstepsbigresults/challenges.php
to sign up.
The life lessons on
this path have been steep and have moved me to greater understandings
of many aspects of my life. This path has also allowed me to give back
to the community who supports me through some fundraising efforts. My
aim in going back to Everest is to continue to seek learning and share
it as it comes. In celebration of Oma’s life and love of learning
and in fulfilling a decade’s old dream, I am establishing an award
at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The award is called the
Everest 2010 Mountain of Learning Experiential Education Award.
This endowed award will
support students in pursuing experiential education opportunities in
support of their degree programs. I often hear of students wanting to
seek out experiential opportunities but the cost stands as a barrier.
My dream is that the award will reduce some of the obstacles to such
experiences and inspire students to enrich their studies by getting
outside the classroom. I will be blogging daily from the
mountain about the lessons Everest is teaching me...you can read the
blog at www.taloeffler.com.
When I am not climbing mountains, I teach outdoor recreation at
Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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 Lucille
deBeaudrap (Canadian) I have been asked on many occasions and it is the
one question asked by every school that is following my blog: why do I
want to climb Mount Everest? The answer is certainly not as simple as just
"because it is there". I will attempt to give you a bit of
insight into my thoughts. It all started with my bucket list I created
when I was in school.
1. Climb to the top of Mount Everest
2. Run the Boston Marathon
3. Have a career
4. Build a house in the woods without power or running water (!)
5. Hang glide
6. Own a motorcycle
Now these are not just
items that I wanted to do once to tick off my list, but rather they have
become a large part of my life. I have been running for most of my life,
and back in the mid-70's when I wrote this list, Boston was the marathon
to run. I have run two marathons, but my old knees won't stand up to
training for another marathon.
I have spent the last 23 years on my career, and I have two fabulous jobs,
one of which I frequently get asked when am I going to give it up so that
they can have my job! Never is of course the response.
I'll skip #4 because I live in the real world...but trekking in Nepal
comes pretty close to this.
I tried hang gliding, but turned to Paragliding instead. I have been doing
this for the past 16 years and really love it. And for the motorcycle, I
love riding on the back of Ted's goldwing, and two years ago I took
lessons and bought my own bike. I can't wait to get back in June and take
her out.
What is the common thread? Most of these require training, effort,
discipline and a certain amount of self reliance. The benefit of all of
these is that I have extended families related to all these various
activities.
Now for Everest, well I have spent as much time in the mountains as I can
over the past 4-5 years, learning as much as I can from anyone willing to
teach me. It has been a great journey so far, but it's not over. Follow
along as I make my way.
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 Carina
Räihästä (Finnish) attempting to be the First Finnish women
to summit Mount Everest.
"Only a handful have
been conducted by Finnish subjects, Mount Everest, and not known yet, none
of Finnish women have even tried to climb the world's highest mountain.
Globally, only a few women have stood atop Mount Everest. Carina's
historic and unique project is called Tango Expedition 2010.
I had always dreamed of
going to all the world to interesting places, where it would be time and
opportunity. I also dreamed that, then I can make them important things of
which I had dreamed about since infancy. I was going to sport more than
ever before and to live more healthily than ever before. Early years I
went traveling and made athletics important. Sometimes, I returned to
Finland to participate in various volunteer work in mm. forces as head of
the oil spill response training and photographing events for the
Environment Agency. Liberty and made a healthy life for their mission, I
found creativity blossom for the first time in years, and I began to need
new thinking. All of this lightness suddenly rose to the middle of a
desire to challenge myself and try to climb the world's highest mountain. |
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