At age 36, Luis Benitez stands among the world’s foremost high altitude mountaineers and Leadership Management consultants. On May 21, 2007, Luis achieved his sixth summit of Mt. Everest. In 2004, Benitez claimed the world’s (non-Sherpa) record for most consecutive summits of Everest: four in four years – an amazing achievement, because in

New Canaan, Connecticut, Climber and Physician, a.k.a “Brad’s dad.” Sherman has been on six previous Himalayan expeditions. He summited Mt. Everest in 2001 with his son Brad Bull. He has reached Everest’s South Summit on two occasions (first with his son, Brad, in 1995). He summited Cho Oyu with PV in 1997 and has completed [...]

Brad Bull has been a member of five Himalayan mountaineering expeditions, summiting Mt. Everest twice. He has climbed numerous peaks on other continents, always putting safety and comradery as the highest priorities. He subscribes to the ideology that at any given time the greatest climber alive is the person who is having the most fun climbing.

When asked what separates Michael Brown from other adventure filmmakers, Erik Weihenmayer (the first blind person to summit Mount Everest) remarks that the award-winning director has an incomparable level of focus, skill and commitment. “There are only a handful of candidates with the athletic ability and tireless drive to pull off what Michael accomplishes routinely,” [...]

Kevin Cherilla is best known as a physical education teacher at Phoenix Country Day School, a prominent businessman, an international mountain guide, philanthropist, and motivational speaker. In 2004, Kevin started KC Summits, LLC, an adventure organization that engages all individuals in challenging themselves while reaching their goals around the world. Many of his clients have [...]

Jeff Evans, founder of MountainVision Inc., grew up scampering around the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina but soon found that the higher mountains of Colorado would be the ideal setting to challenge himself as a mountain guide. At the age of 19, Jeff packed up his truck and relocated to the Colorado [...]

Didrik’s dedication and easy going style took him to the summit of Mount Everest as the Expedition Photographer documenting blind climber Erik Weihenmayer’s historic ascent. Time & Life magazine’s snatched up photos from his shoot. Time published Didrik’s imagery on their cover while Life used them for their prestigious “Year in Pictures” collection. While mountain [...]

Charley lives in Colorado and has been climbing all of his life. He is one of America’s most respected and successful Himalayan mountaineers with ascents of four 8000 meter peaks; Everest, K2, Manaslu, and Gasherbrum II. Charley has guided on every continent, summiting the eight continental high points.

Chris Morris, age 44, is a personal fitness trainer international mountain guide. Chris began rock climbing at age 13 and guiding wilderness adventures by the time he was 20 having now guided in many of the great mountain ranges of the world including the Himalaya, Antarctica, South America, Africa, Russia, and the mountains and backcountry [...]

On May 25, 2001, Erik Weihenmayer became the only blind man in history to reach the summit of the world’s highest peak – Mount Everest. On August 20, 2008, when he stood on top of Carstenz Pyramid, the tallest peak in Austral-Asia, Weihenmayer completed his quest to climb the Seven Summits – the highest mountains on each of the