“Everest: Beyond The Limit” series on Discovery Channel
SCALING HEIGHTS Mount Everest and the climbers
The 2006 climbing season on Mount Everest marked the first time a double amputee made it to the summit. Using cutting-edge filming techniques including high-altitude video technology and cameras mounted on helmets, Discovery Channel’s premiere
series, “Everest: Beyond The Limit”, will present every step of this gruelling April-May 2006 expedition by a motley group.
The six-part premiere will be aired on Discovery Channel, every Saturday at 9 p.m. with a repeat on the following Monday at 9 p.m. For the series, a 17-member production team, followed an expedition of 11 climbers with three professional mountain guides, organised and led by the experienced New Zealander Russell Brice. In the programme, viewers will encounter climbers who make an attempt despite heavy odds. An asthmatic man from Denmark tries to summit without supplemental oxygen.
A fire fighter from Los Angeles, who has mortgaged his house and motorcycle to pay for the climb, makes his second attempt.
A Harley Davidson motorcycle designer tries to shin up the mount with a body that had been damaged from head to toe in a bike crash. Metal plates and pins hold together his spine, ankle and skull.
Included in the series is Mark Inglis’ historic summit, as he becomes the first-ever double amputee to scale Everest after losing his legs to frostbite while climbing Mount Cook 24 years ago.
On his passion for climbing, Mark says, “The main thing is to always know that nothing in life is too hard and you never know until you give it a go.”
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