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Expedition Team
Leadership Team:
Eric Simonson
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.
Eric co-authored Ghosts of Everest,
published by The Mountaineers
Books in October 1999, sharing the story of his 1999
Mallory & Irvine
Research Expedition and recently named as one of
the 20th Century's 50 best
mountaineering books by the American Alpine Club.
He also co-authored
Detectives on Everest, published by The
Mountaineers Books in July 2002,
recapping the 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research
Expedition which conducted the
world's highest archeology project and culminated
with the accomplishment of
the highest mountaineering rescue in history.
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:
Dave Hahn (Guide)
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
Base Camp Trekkers:
Deirdre Galbraith
Debra Brockmeyer
Michelle Mongey
Jonathan Calvert
Island Peak Climbers:
Kristy Kleedehn
Carole Shiffman
Khumbu Icefall Climbers:
Michael Dunne
Mark Wippich
IMG Climbing Sherpas:
Ang Passang, Pangboche
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
ABC Cooks:
Mingmar, Solu
Lhakpa Bhote, Makalu
Base Camp Cook Staff:
Pemba Tshering, Baganje
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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