When Veterans Day rolls around every year I always feel the same few emotions begin to surface. Every year…same ones.
I always feel very fortunate and blessed… that I was simply, out of mere dumn luck, born in a country that provides basic needs to MOST of it’s inhabitants.
October 6, COLORADO – The No Barriers team is proud to announce that Soldiers to the Summit (S2S) is now an integral part of our mission to promote cutting-edge ideas, approaches, and assistive technologies that help people with challenges push through personal barriers. Operating under the umbrella of No Barriers, S2S will reach out to [...]
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Lion King producer Don Hahn, has joined Emmy Award-winning director Michael Brown on a new documentary, HIGH GROUND. The film tells the true story of eleven wounded veterans whose road to recovery takes them to the top of a Himalayan giant on a journey to heal the wounds of war.
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**** LATEST UPDATE ***** Mt. Elbert climb switched to Quandary Peak Due to heavy snows last week and poor weather forecast for the next few days, the team decided to make the switch from Mt. Elbert to Quandary Peak. Read the original post with details of the project below … March 19 COLORADO – Erik [...]
The U.S. military has always excelled at training soldiers, but they’ve had a tougher time helping them adjust to peace. The author joins 11 combat veterans in Nepal as they test the most promising new postwar therapy: adventure. By Brian Mockenhaupt TWO YEARS LATER AND STILL HE IMAGINED HIS BLINDNESS AS A TERRIBLE DREAM. He’d [...]
*** LATEST UPDATE – May 18, 2011 *** – Climb location is being switched to Quandaray Peak. March 15 COLORADO – Hard to believe but it’s been 10 years since I climbed Everest! A lot has happened since then and my team and I are still working together to give back after the mountains have [...]
March 1 IOWA – Matt Nyman is a former Army special operations soldier and native of Waterloo. In 2005, he lost his right leg and had his left foot crushed in combat in Iraq. Join host Ben Kieffer as he and Nyman talk about Nyman’s attempt at an extraordinary feat … (Read more and listen [...]
March 3, 2011, WASHINGTON DC – The Pentagon Channel’s popular Recon series, broadcast at 7:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, reports on the successful climb of 20,075-foot Lobuche East on October 14, 2010. Located in Nepal only 8.7 miles from Mount Everest, Lobuche proved to be a challenging destination for team members, which included 11 wounded [...]
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