Partnerships :: Shared Summits 2008 Nanga Parbat Expedition
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Chris Warner and the Shared Summits team will head back to the Himalaya's to face another of the world's highest peaks. The 2007 teams successfully conquered the savage mountain K2. This year a new team will head back to Pakistan for another of the world's highest. Nanga Parbat, located in a remote corner of the country at 26,660 feet tall, has only been summited 274 times, with only six of those ascents by Americans. Warner, one of the most experienced American mountaineers, will lead the team of six climbers to Nanga Parbat. If the team is successful, it will be the first ascent of Nanga Parbat by an American woman. The team will attempt the reach the summit via the dangerous Diamir Face.
Nanga Parbat Expedition Team:
Chris Warner
The owner of Earth Treks Climbing Centers, Warner is also the senior guide. He is a certified Alpine guide and has led over 140 international mountaineering expeditions. Chris is one of the nation's leading Himalayan mountaineers, with ascents of Everest, K2, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Shisha Pangma, Ama Dablam, and Shivling. In 2007 Warner lead the Shared Summits team to the summit of K2. Climbing internationally since 1987, Chris has summited at least one hundred times on peaks over 19,000 feet.
Nelson Laur
Laur has been guiding ice, rock, and mountaineering expeditions for Earth Treks since 1997. He as guided in Nepal, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Tanzania, Russia and throughout the U.S. Laur was also an instructor for Colorado's Outward Bound School, he spent time as a backcountry ranger in the Grand Canyon, and a river guide on the Snake River in Jackson WY.
Dan Jenkins
In the summer of 1978 Dan began his climbing career on the rugged and precipitous cliffs of Carderock overlooking the majestic Potomac River. Since then he has ventured into the mountains of 5 continents with ascents throughout the western US (including Denali), Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Russia, Tanzania, India and Nepal. Dan's love for guiding is apparent as he conveys the beauties and subtle lessons to be learned from ascending peaks in the remote regions of the globe. Dan resides in Boulder, Colorado.
Evan Horst
Evan received a Bachelors degree in Recreation with an emphasis in Outdoor Leadership & Instruction from Western State College in Gunnison, CO. He spent much of his time volunteering for the local Search and Rescue Team in Gunnison, CO, training and teaching technical rigging systems and search planning. He also was a member of the Gunnison Valley EMS Special Operations Rescue Team which assisted Fire and EMS in fast response vertical rescues. Evan is a certified Wilderness First Responder and AMGA Top Rope Site Manager. He serves as Earth Treks' Outdoor School Director, Lead Rock & Ice guide and runs beginner mountaineering expeditions in Ecuador.
Annamaria Cherubin
Anna is a business consultant, with a bachelors from MIT and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. A competitive athlete, she started climbing in 2004 and has since made numerous climbs in the Andes, Africa and Russia. There are very few female mountaineers in the US, and those that aspire to climbing the 8000 meter peaks are rarely found far from Everest. Anna will be the first American woman to attempt Nanga Parbat.
Eric Kapitulik
Eric graduated from the Naval Academy and spent 8 years as an officer in the Marines (Recon). During a training exercise off of San Diego, his helicopter crashed. A small handful of the team survived. Eric started a scholarship fund for the children of the deceased. He decided to raise the money by competing in 7 Iron Man Tri-Athalons. Eric has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business. He has summitted peaks throughout North and South America and Africa.
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