2005 Everest South Side Expedition Directed by Eric Simonson Led by Mark Tucker |
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Expedition Team Leadership Team:
IMG Director Eric has been a professional mountain guide since 1973 and has personally conducted over 85 major expeditions around the globe, including over 25 to the Himalayas. He has become recognized internationally as one of the world's premiere mountaineering expedition leaders, specializing in climbs of Mt. Everest and the other classic 8,000m peaks of the Himalayas. During his thirty-year professional career he has spent over 5,000 days of active guiding, and is a Senior Certified Alpine Guide and Ski Mountaineering Guide. His international guiding and climbing resume includes expeditions on every continent of the globe, including ascents of the "Seven Summits" and eleven expeditions to Mt. Everest, reaching the summit in 1991 via the North Ridge.Mark Tucker Expedition Leader Mark Tucker has been guiding since 1985, with Mt. Rainier as the starting point. Since then, he has climbed and guided classic peaks on seven continents, with the summit of Mt. Everest as his high point. Mark's extensive experience in South America, Africa and the Himalayas, combined with his lengthy career guiding on Rainier and Denali in the US, makes him a super member of our guide team. When not in the hills, he leads a fun-filled Other Life. Passions by land include mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, motorcycle riding, and gardening (he's still working on the golf game.) By water, he enjoys surfing, kayaking, wind surfing , scuba diving , water skiing, and fishing, and by air, hang gliding.Ang Jangbu Sherpa Assistant Expedition Leader Jangbu is a partner and director of Great Escapes, a premier trekking and climbing agency in Nepal. Jangbu grew up in the village of Phortse where he attended the Hillary school until the age of 18. In 1981 he moved to Pokhara and lived there for seven years and trained under the legendary Colonel Jimmy Roberts, the founder of Nepal's first trekking company and the trekking industry in the Nepal Himalaya. He then moved to Kathmandu and started Great Escapes with his two other partners in the spring of 1993. Jangbu is married and has two children. He has been on dozens of expeditions, including summitting Everest on the 1990 American Everest Expedition. Jangbu has climbed Europe's Mt. Blanc and most of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado, and has served as assistant instructor for Colorado Outward Bound.Ang Passang Sherpa Climbing Sirdar Ang Passang has been working for IMG as a climbing sirdar since 1997. Ang Passang has been on a dozen expeditions to Everest alone and has summited four times. He has also summited Cho Oyu three times and has climbed on Dhaulagiri, Makalu, Nuptse, and Ama Dablam. Ang Passang is from the village of Pangboche and is married with four children. Everest Climbers:
Walter Laserer (Guide) Mike Hamill (Guide) Ed Diffendal Larry Legault Doug Brockmeyer Renate Schachinger Wayne Morris Jeff Strite Jose Rionda Peter Ford Nacho Piedra Jim Waldron Rex Pemberton
Debra Brockmeyer Michelle Mongey Jonathan Calvert
Carole Shiffman
Mark Wippich
Danuru, Phortse Tashi Tshering, Pangboche Phinjo , Phortse Lhakpa Nuru, Phortse Tenzing Phinjo, Phortse Mingma Tenzing, Phortse Passang Rinjing, Phortse Ramji , Pangboche Ang Namgya, Pangboche Kami Passang, Khumjung Chebi Bhote, Makalu Nima Karma, Phortse Da Zhangbu, Pangboche Samduk Dorje , Pangboche Dawa Nuru, Phortse Panuru, Phortse Phunuru, Phortse Mingma Ongel, Phortse Da Sona, Pangboche
Lhakpa Bhote, Makalu
Dan Sher Tamang, Solu Shyam Prasad Pun, Myagdi Thakur, Ramechap Dhan Kumar, Solu Phinjo Dorje, Pangboche Tan Kumar , Solu Tenzing Sherpa, Dolakha
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