We will climb with a group of 6 persons as part of the
larger 7summits.com Everest team, which includes Noel Hanna,
Lorenzo Gariano, Alex Abramov and many others:
- Thomas Weber, 41
years old. He has an eye disease which causes loss of
vision leading to temporary blindness when at altitude.
- Kevin Augello:
Climbing cameraman, who will document the expedition
together with Milan and will climb to 7060m.
- Milan Collin:
Climbing cameraman, who will document the expedition
together with Kevin and will climb to 7060m.
- Harry Kikstra:
Expedition Leader & photographer. He will guide Thomas
as high as possible
- The last 2 persons are likely the most important
ones on the team: 2 High Altitude Sherpas:
The Sherpas are living in the highlands of Nepal and
incredibly strong and experienced climbers. We do not know
yet who will be our Sherpas, else we would have named them
here. That decision will be made closer to the summit
attempt as we need to see who is fit enough to execute the
enormous task of supporting Thomas and Harry to the summit.
The expedition has hired about 20 strong Sherpas from the
Makalu region. The Sherpas fix the ropes, make camps and are
the most important sucessfactor for the climbers. Without
them, few would ever summit Everest. Even so-called 'Solo'
climbers often have a Sherpa at their side, or at least use
the ropes which have been fixed by them. |
