Follow all the action on Mount Everest this pre-Monsoon season through live
coverage on
MountainZone.com. For the sixth year since its inception in 1996,
MountainZone.com offers the most authoritative and definitive interactive
reporting of expeditions to the world's highest peak available anywhere.
Zoners who followed Pete Athans' sixth successful Everest summit attempt via
the South Col last year, or Eric Simonson's team's stunning discovery of
George Mallory's body below the Northeast Ridge, will find Everest 2002 to
be our most exciting coverage yet, highlighted by live audio reports (coming soon!), email
dispatches, and digital images.
Familiar south side landmarks — the Khumbu Icefall, the Western Cwm, the
Lhotse Face, the South Col, the Hillary Step — will be the scene of the
action as MountainZone.com features the Alpine Ascents International
American South Col Expedition. Legendary mountaineer Willi Prittie will lead
the Alpine Ascents expedition as it attempts to climb the mountain with a
team that includes famed guide Vern Tejas and Chicago
climber Al Hanna. Hanna, at nearly 72, has already climbed six of the Seven
Summits, and has reached 28,000 feet on Everest multiple times.
Hanna climbs because he loves to climb, but if he's
successful this year he will become the oldest person to summit the
mountain. Another climber, Jeff Mathy, could become the youngest person ever
to climb the Seven Summits, the highest point on each continent. [Click here
for a complete list of climbers and guides]
As we follow the Alpine Ascents
team, we'll report on other newsworthy events from the mountain as they
happen.
Building up to the climbing action on the South Col Route, we'll follow the
Alpine Ascents climbers as they trek to Everest Base Camp, led by Everest
summitter and Alpine Ascents International founder Todd Burleson. The
journey through the Khumbu will take MountainZone.com readers on one of the
greatest adventures accessible to those who love mountains. Burleson's live
satellite-phone dispatches and digital images will bring this astounding
journey to life.
Live dispatches have begun with the first satellite call from Vern Tejas from Namche Bazaar on April 4. Once again, the greatest
adventure on earth can be lived—as it happens —on MountainZone.com
— Peter Potterfield, MountainZone.com Staff
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