October 21, 2009
First Ascent In-Store Event, 7 p.m.—10 p.m.
Eddie Bauer FlatIron Crossing, CO
Meet First Ascent mountain guides Peter Whittaker, Dave Hahn, Seth Waterfall, Chad Peele and Jake Norton, and a special appearance by mountaineering legend Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest. Refreshments, special discounts, panel discussion and expert advice on First Ascent [...]
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First Ascent’s Everest summit on May 19 made headlines across the United States. Check out the scoop.
Ed Viesturs Group Reaches Summit of Mount Everest
Seattle Times
5/20/09
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2009238109_webclimb20.html
Phone Call from Mount Everest
USA Today
5/21/09
http://blogs.usatoday.com/gameon/2009/05/phone-call-from-mount-everest.html?csp=34
First Ascent Team Summits Everest!
Climbing.com
5/26/2009
http://www.climbing.com/exclusive/above/first_ascent_team_summits_everest/
Extreme Tech: Everest Filmmaking
National Geographic Adventure Blog
http://ngadventure.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/extreme-tech-everest-filmmaking-with-macbook-pros-solar-power.html
Everest Dispatch #90
May 30, 2009
Katmandu
By Dave Hahn
What a difference a day or two can make. The First Ascent team walked out of Namche and down through the farms and fields of Phak Ding the other morning. In short order, we’d gone from snow, ice and rock to wheat, barley and happy little kids [...]
Everest Dispatch #89
May 27, 2009
Namche, Nepal
By Dave Hahn
The cyclone pushed us out of Everest Basecamp. Early yesterday morning, it tried to crush us in our tents. Heavy, wet snow was falling at the rate of perhaps three inches per hour. Everything was getting buried fast… tents, yaks, climbing gear. It was [...]
Everest Dispatch #88
May 25, 2009
Everest Basecamp
By Dave Hahn
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Everest season end so early or so abruptly. It began snowing hard at basecamp at around 6 AM and that has continued without pause for the entire day. Cyclone 02B out of the Bay of Bengal is the likely [...]
Everest Dispatch #87
May 24, 2009
Everest Basecamp
’09 Pre-Monsoon Climbing Season
There are two distinct sounds that jar me away from the day to day life at Basecamp and instantly remind me of the sobering landscape in which we are living. The first starts as a low grumble, like a distant roll of thunder moving up the valley, [...]
Everest Dispatch #86
May 24, 2009
Basecamp
I was perplexed this morning at ABC. Shouldn’t a night’s sleep have healed all wounds and refreshed me enough to seize one more Everest day? But as I lay –uncomfortably- in my sleeping bag at 5:30 AM, rubbing my eyes, stifling coughs and wondering why so many muscles hurt… I remembered [...]
Team Hahn Summit Day Audio Dispatch #02
Everest Dispatch #85
6:00pm May 23 Nepal Time
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