Featured IMG News and Media Coverage

Now in its third season, the Discovery Channel's Everest: Beyond The Limit is taking a new approach to filming and will feature both International Mountain Guides' 2009 Everest Climb and Himalayan Experience in a five-part series. See full episodes of Everest: Beyond the Limit featuring IMG's 2009 expedition »

• MSNBC.com
  January 2010 —IMG climber and NASA astronaut, Scott Parazynski, sends an Everest summit rock to go along with moon rocks to the International Space Station.


• Volleyball Magazine
  Olympic coach trades volleyball for... mountain guiding. Story of IMG guide Greg Vernovage.


• NYU's ScienceLine.org
  IMG's Eric Simonson comments in an article about research on the health effects of high altitude


• The News Tribune
  March 3, 2009 — The Discovery Channel to follow IMG's 2009 Everest Expedition


• February 2009 — Eric Simonson Elected to AAC Board
  IMG partner Eric Simonson was recently elected to the Board of the American Alpine Club. IMG has been an AAC Industry Partner since 2005, and we support the mission of the American Alpine Club, the voice for American climbers for over 100 years. If you are a climber, you should consider joining the AAC! For more info, please visit: americanalpineclub.org


• IMG Among National Geographic's Best
  February 2009 — IMG again listed in National Geographic's Best Adventure Travel Companies


• 7 Summits in 11 Months
  November 17th, 2008 — IMG guide Mike Hamill climbs the 7 Summits in 11 months


• The News Tribune
  September 1, 2008 — Ageless Mountain Men: IMG Director Phil Ershler featured in article about Rainier guides


• The Seattle Times
  August 12, 2008 — IMG guide Liam O'Sullivan beats the recent Rainier speed ascent record by 3 minutes


• NWCN.com
  July 30, 2008 — On July 12, IMG client Randall Nordfors biked from the Puget Sound to Paradise, summitted Rainier in under 12 hours and made the round-trip bike ride in under 20 hours.


• Tacoma News Tribune
  July 12, 2008 — IMG guide Justin Merle completes fastest speed ascent of Mt. Rainier


• Urban Climber Magazine
  June 2008 — Everest Seeds Arrive Home to Winchester Public School


• Upper Canada District School Board
  June 2008 — Everest summiting (and potentially world record setting) seeds returned to school kids by Brinks Security


• Climbing Magazine
  May 29, 2008 — Seeds Make Everest Summit! IMG guide Justin Merle helps school kids achieve a Guinness World Record!


• The Seattle Times / Associated Press
  May 28, 2008 — IMG guide Dave Hahn sets record with 10th Everest summit


• Tacoma News Tribune
  May 28, 2008 — IMG guide Dave Hahn sets record with 10th Everest summit


• Tacoma News Tribune
  May 24, 2008 — Everest record-breakers include IMG guide Justin Merle and his team


• National Geographic Adventure
  February, 2008 — See a climber's photo gallery of the Ecuador Volcanoes with IMG as the recommended guide service.


• New York Times
  January 20, 2008 — New York Times account of a Kilimanjaro climb with IMG.


• Everett Herald
  January 14, 2008 — Retired Tulalip man summits Kilimanjaro with IMG


• IMG Kilimanjaro Climb Recommended by The New York Times
  December 2007 — Climbing Kilimanjaro with IMG makes The New York Times list of  53 Things To Do In 2008


• IMG Kilimanjaro Climber in MasterCard's Priceless Picks
  November 2007 — Expedition of a lifetime... a few G's. Enough ziplocks to keep everything dry... $20. Overcoming weather, altitude and self-doubt to spend your birthday on top of Africa... Priceless.


• National Geographic Ranks IMG as the Best
  November 2007 — National Geographic Adventure ranks International Mountain Guides as the Best Mountaineering Outfitter


• Ama Dablam Summits
  October 2007 — IMG Autumn 2007 team summits Ama Dablam


• IMG Guide Justin Merle Achieves 100th Summit on Mt. Rainier
  July 2007 — Justin Merle is IMG's newest member of the Mt. Rainier Century Club, with his 100th successful summit. Justin has been guiding for 9 years and has led many IMG trips in Alaska, South America, Antarctica, and the Himalayas. It is great to see him back guiding on Rainier this summer. Way to go, Justin!


• The News Tribune
  June 21, 2007 — Guiding rights: Three services share Muir Route on Rainier for first time


• The Seattle Times
  June 20, 2007 — Together on Top of the World: Tale of first couple of summits. Book review of Phil and Susan Ershlers book.


• The London Times
  May 25, 2007 — The story of the difficult rescue IMG guides Hahn, Grom, Haugen and Phinjo Sherpa executed on their descent from the summit of Everest.


• IMG sets record with 37 Everest Summits
  May 2007 — IMG's 2007 Everest expedition saw and all time high of 37 summiters climb and descend Mount Everest safely.


• IMG Cho Oyu Summits
  May 2007 — Climbers summit on IMG's 2007 Spring Expedition


• The News Tribune
  March 1, 2007 — Crystal backcountry enticing, deadly (article featuring IMG Director and Crystal's ski patrol director Paul Baugher.)


• The Seattle Times
  January 13, 2007 — Everest climbers encounter life/death ethical questions


• The Seattle Times
  January 13, 2007 — IMG Director Paul Baugher researches hidden dangers to skiers and snowboarders


• The News Tribune
  January 5, 2007 — IMG's new Rainier concession among top recreation stories of 2006


• The News Tribune
  December 28, 2006 — IMG guide Jason Edwards in "Heroes and legends: South Sound adventurers make history in 2006"


• IMG Cho Oyu Expedition Summits
  October 2006 — 15 summits on IMG's 2006 Expedition


• Gurla Mandhata Team SUMMITS
  October 2006 — Jake Norton leads a unique, IMG organized expedition up this rarely climbed Himalayan peak


• The News Tribune
  October 19, 2006 — Changing of the guides should be good thing for Rainier


• Seattle PI
  October 11, 2006 — Mount Rainier adds two climbing services


• IMG Awarded Rainier Concession
  October 2006 — National Park Service awards IMG new concession contract on Mt. Rainier


• The Great Outdoors
  October 6, 2006 — Mount Rainier Guide Monopoly to End


• Travel & Leisure
  September 2006 — IMG recommended by "Travel and Leisure" in: Climb a Mountain. Elevate your spirit by reaching new heights—literally—with a trek up one of the world's tallest peaks


• 2006 IMG Team SUMMITS Carstensz
  September 2006 — Putting the adventure into adventure travel...


• The News Tribune
  July 13, 2006 — 300 trips to Mount Rainier's summit put climber in rare air: IMG Guide Jason Edwards becomes 6th person to summit Rainier for 300th time. IMG Directors George Dunn and Phil Ershler hold over 400 summits each.


• "Talk to America" Looks at the Challenge and Exhilaration of Scaling Mount Everest
  June 28, 2006 — Eric Simonson participated in a worldwide broadcast and took calls from prospective Everest climbers around the world.


• The News Tribune
  May 25, 2006 — "In one of the most successful expeditions in Everest history, IMG put 30 of 40 members of its expedition on the summit and made history along the way..."


• 30 Everest Summits for IMG's 2006 Season
  May 2006 — In another safe and successful Himalayan expedition, IMG puts an all-time high of 30 climbers on the summit of Mount Everest.


• GreatOutdoors.com
  March-May, 2006 — IMG Guide Dave Hahn, then 7-time Everest summiter, reports from the 2006 IMG Everest Expedition


• Outside Magazine
  January 2006 — Story by Ed Viesturs recommending IMG as the guides to go with for Everest and Cho Oyu


• Washington National Park Fund Newsletter (in PDF format)
  Fall 2005 — IMG's George Dunn, Eric Simonson and Anne Keller donate their time to lead a group of executives up Rainier. The climb raised over $25,000 for the National Park Fund.


• The New York Times
  June 18, 2005 — At Home at the Top of the World


• The Seattle Times
  April 21, 2005 — Parks to divvy up guided climbs on Mount Rainier


• The Seattle PI
  April 21, 2005 — Mount Rainier guide services to be put out for bid; RMI's near monopoly to be broken


• The News Tribune
  April 21, 2005 — Out to be kings of the mountain


• The Yakima Herald-Republic
  April 21, 2005 — A choice to the top


• The Seattle Times
  September 8, 2004 — Mountain guide climbs into Rainier record book: IMG Director George Dunn holds the record for Mount Rainier summits.


• Men's Journal
  April 2004 — The 100 Best Trips on the Planet (featureing IMG's Everest and Cho Oyu Expeditions)


• Sherpa Climbing School
  February 2004 — IMG sponsors the first climbing school to train Sherpas in safety and technique


• Boy's Life (article in PDF format)
  December 2002 — My Life's Work: Master of the Mountain


• New Schools in Nepal
  IMG's Cho Oyu climbers help build two new schools in Nepal


• First Married Couple to Climb Seven Summits
  May 2002 — IMG's 2002 Everest season put ten climbers on the summit including IMG Director Phil Ershler and his wife Susan who become the first married couple to climb all seven summits.


• Heroism Award for IMG Guides
  February 2002 — IMG guides receive the David A. Sowles Memorial Award for their rescue near the summit of Everest


• The Salt Lake Tribune
  October 23, 2001 — Mountaineer Rescuers Make a Point by Sacrificing Summit of Everest


• High Altitude Brewing
  Summer 1996 — With a little help from the brew masters of Forty Below and their multi-purpose mountaineering gear, an IMG Cho Oyu team experiments with brewing up some High Altitude Ale.


• IMGer's First Everest Expedition
  Read Jim Wickwire's 1983 American Alpine Journal story of IMG directors Eric Simonson, Phil Ershler and George Dunn's first Everest expedition.


• Simonson's First Himalayan Expedition
  Read Eric Simonson's American Alpine Journal story of his first Himalayan expedition — a 1979 epic on Annapurna.