Introducing Peter Whittaker In my last post you learned about Ed, which is only half the team guiding us up Rainier……the other legend on our team is this man……Peter Whittaker. Here’s a quick look at his accomplishments followed by a quick video showing some of Rainiers highlights….. PETER WHITTAKER, MOUNTAIN GUIDE, RMI EXPEDITIONS Clients find …
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Introducing Ed Viesturs
Introducing Ed Viesturs As you will all be aware by now we are doing this climb with two of Americas premier climbers being Ed Viesturs and Peter Whittaker, I wanted to give you a quick run down of their accomplishments…..First up we have Ed followed by a short 3 minute video explaining the up coming …
The Rockstars climb with a true Aussie legend!
The Perfect Sunday. Well how can I possibly explain to you how good Sunday was for both Dave and myself. First let me explain the title of this post. A good friend of mine Peter Gash happen to mention to me that he knew Michael Groom, for those of you who are interested in mountaineering …
Training For Rainier… It’s Been a Little Different
Mt Rainier vs Everest Base Camp. So what’s been different in our training this time around? We’re still hitting the track and trekking up and down the ridge lines of the Gold Coast Hinterland not to mention the stairwell at the Royal Pines….. boy that’s 20 floors of fun. The biggest difference is we have …
So How Do You Climb Mt Rainier?
Mt Rainier vs Sylvester Stallone So we wanted to give you a better idea of what it is we are taking on and the style of climbing we’re actually doing. When we say to people we’re climbing Mt Rainier most people picture Sylvester Stallone hanging from a rock face in the movie Cliffhanger. That’s not …
The Everest Rockstars Are Back!
Hey Everyone so we’re back…..sort of! So we are being asked all the time “where have you guys been and why don’t you update the blog”. The reason? No reason really, we have all just been off doing our own things, traveling, trekking, training you know how it goes. It’s been a good year for …
ED VIESTURS SPEAKS TO MIKE! Well…. that was the plan…. ;-(
As most of you know the Big Dog (Mike) has Ed Viesturs on his list of ‘remote mentors’. We recently tried to book a short speaking engagement with Ed to speak to Mike from Washington State USA (Ed’s hometown), but alas – he is busy conquering mountains and is not available anytime soon…. We thought you might …
We have a couple of new videos we found
Hi Guys i found a video in the collection that you have not seen yet and managed to upload, it’s of us on our way back from EBC and shows how we were feeling on that return trip…. cheers Mike
Some thoughts from Mike
Sorry it’s been a while everyone, Dave, Dwight and myself have all been in China over the past two weeks so life has been pretty busy however we have all still been training as some of us have an adventure race on the 20th May. I’ll post photos of the adventure race once we have …
But wait there’s more!
I have more!!…..are you bored yet?
Zero Vanilla 