Saturday, October 23, 2010

Morning Coffee Inspiration



BEEP-BEEP-BEEP get up...it's time for the weekend!

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Enjoy the view from NEW HAMPSHIRE'S MOUNT WASHINGTON

Or check out what’s happing on El Capitan

and dream BIG like local Boston climber Ed Webster -


Supercrack FA 1976 Earl Wiggins & Ed Webster Photo AAC

Buddhist Monk Hallucinations
“Below the South Summit, Ed saw prayer flags strung between rocks and purple-robed Buddhist monks chanting a blessing ceremony. Not thinking he was hallucinating, he simply watched them before passing out. When he awoke he realized the perilous place he was in and that if he continued on to the summit of Mount Everest that he would never return alive. “From out of my mental haze came the inescapable conviction that if I continued I would probably be killed.” At 28,700 feet and 3:30 in the afternoon, Webster turned around and started down. Life was more important than summit. Stephen Venables continued solo to the summit, becoming the sole expedition member to reach the top and the first British climber to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.”

His 1988 Everest Kangshung Face new route has been hailed as the last of "the great" Everest expeditions, and one of the most audacious mountaineering feats of all time."

Ed Webster – CROW HILL TO SUPERCRACK TO EVEREST visit his website at www.mtnimagery.com

ED WEBSTER to speak at
AMC BOSTON CHAPTER'S ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER

Sunday Evening November 7, 2010 – Sandy Burr Country Club,
(103 Cochituate Rd Wayland, MA)

Ticket prices are the same as last year: $15 in advance for AMC members and $20 at the door, space permitting. Parking is free and there will be a cash bar.

Members can bring non-member guests. The guest price is $20 in advance, $25 at the door, space permitting.

Space is limited. Register as soon as possible. Non-registered members and guests will only be accepted at the door if space permits.

To make a reservation, visit
http://amcbostonclimbers.org/bcdinner

Remember “You are what you think about all day long.” said before in many forms, i.e. “As a man thinketh, so is he,” or “A man is what his thoughts make of him.”

Now TAKE A HIKE