Everest,
Tibet | 2006
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Little did I imagine when I left Calgary to go and
climb Mt. Everest, the kurfuffle I would land myself in, and the unbelievable
media coverage that would ensue. Before any expedition to a high and
dangerous mountain there is a great sense of the unknown and a gnawing
impatience to go and see how things will unfold. I know that many
outcomes are possible, including my own death. But what happened this
year I never would have imagined. Continue
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Khan Tengri,
Kazakhstan | 2004
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My most recent mountain trips have been to a mountain
that dominates the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan named Khan
Tengri. In 2004 I was looking to climb a high Himalayan mountain,
but it needed to be a mountain I could get to inexpensively and one
I could do alone if necessary. I was in need of an adventure. I needed
the larger than life feelings and sensations that only come with climbing
a big mountain. Continue
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Chinese Karakoram,
China | 1999
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Three years had passed since my last big mountain trip
when I was invited by John Climaco to the Shaksgam valley on the Chinese
side of the Karakoram range. After Alaska I had returned to University
and was just finishing my BA degree at the University of Calgary when
the invite came in - the timing could not have been better. Continue
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| Menlungtse,
Tibet | 1999 |
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Menlungtse is a mountain of great stature and reputation
that stands sternly in a remote pocket of Southern Tibet, and is in
a category with the world's most difficult peaks. There are only so
many mountains in the world like Menlungtse...Changabang, Gauri Shankar,
Jannu... These are rarely climbed and very difficult to climb mountains,
mountains which have retained their mystique in an era where we seem
to know everything about everything... Continue
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| Cholatse,
Nepal | 1993 |
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The Cholatse expedition in 1993 was my first to the
Himalaya. Cholatse is a gorgeous 6440m (21,129') peak in Nepal, which
has had very few ascents. I was very, very keen on going to the Himalaya
and was lucky enough to meet John Climaco in the Canadian Rockies
during the winter of '92-93. While ice climbing together he told me
about his planned trip to Cholatse in Nepal. Continue
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