I can finally stop holding my breath: Discovery is getting ready to release the EBTL series. Well, it’s still a few months off, but you can register your email, and they’ll probably ship around July 13th: http://store.discovery.com/detail.php?p=257946&v=discovery If you’d like to see me and my buddies slug it up the mountain beforehand, you can even [...]

The “Everest BTL” episode in which I was featured, along with buddies Dawes, Danuru, Mingma, Ed, Mike, Louis and Paul, is mega-dramatically entitled: “Deadly Countdown!” If you missed one of the dozen times it played that week, fear not! All is not lost! Assuming you don’t have a heart ailment or fear of heights, here [...]

I watched the final episodes of EBTL at home with laptop in lap, a first for me. Alan Arnette (@alan_arnette) had virtually assembled a group of Twitterers — both climbers and interested armchair mountaineers — to view and comment on the show in real-time (#EV09). My friend from Everest Base Camp, Keith Cowing (@keithcowing), who [...]

What a thrill it was last night to relive the Everest experience through Discovery’s amazing footage, in the company of many friends and family — made that much nicer without the cold, dehydration, malnutrition and hypoxia of the high Himalayas! I saw the first three episodes at a friend’s house, complete with a deluxe home [...]

Departing CIV for the summit Scott Parazynski and other IMG climbers prepare for their summit push at the South Col (Camp IV) on Mt. Everest on 19 May 2009 at 8:20 pm local time. OnOrbit video by Danuru Sherpa of Phortse, Nepal. Share and Enjoy:

18 May 7:00 am EDT update: Scott has reached Camp III which is located on a small ledge at an elevation of 7,470 meters (24,500 ft). He will rest and then push on to Camp IV (South Col) at an elevation of 7,920 meters (26,000 ft). Keith Cowing: We all awoke this morning to some rather [...]

<object width=”560″ height=”340″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/m-BGD4XHK_c&hl=en_US&fs=1&”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/m-BGD4XHK_c&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”560″ height=”340″></embed></object> This video was taken on 17 April 2009 at Camp 2 on Mount Everest at 21,500 feet. In it, IMG climber Scott Parazynski talks live via satellite phone Michael Barratt aboard the International Space Station on the occasion of his [...]

News from International Mountain Guides: “Our 2009 IMG Everest team just got a few new members. IMG Himalayan Director Eric Simonson, and a film team featuring IMG on Discovery Channel’s popular Everest TV series, will join the great group of climbers and trekkers already on board for IMG’s 2009 Everest expedition. Since 1991 IMG has successfully supported [...]