Pasquale (PV) Scaturro, has been the leader of numerous expeditions to major mountains worldwide, including three expeditions to Everest. In 1998 he summited Mt. Everest and in 2001 he conceived, organized, and led the National Federation of the Blind 2001 Everest Expedition, in which blind climber Erik Weihenmayer reached the summit. The expedition was the cover feature of the June 2001 issue of Time Magazine, which called it one of the most successful Mt. Everest expeditions in history, breaking five Everest climbing records. He just recently returned from Switzerland where he was the expedition leader and chief of mountain operations for a major new IMAX filming project on the notorious North Face of the Eiger, considered one of the most difficult and deadly climbs in the Alps. This newest MacGillivray Freeman IMAX film, Alps: Giants of Nature, is to be released in March 2007.  Pasquale has filmed rafting and mountaineering projects for MSNBC, ESPN, Turner Television, MacGillivray Freeman Films, MSN, PBS, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, and OrbitaMax.  He has appeared on the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, Time Magazine, Outside Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Playboy Magazine, The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, LA Times, Hooked on the Outdoors, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, Paddler Magazine and many others. More.

Don Bowie has been on three Himalayan expeditions in the last year and a half. He has been climbing for 15 years with ascents on everything from the granite faces of Baffin Island and Yosemite Valley to the South Face of Annapurna. While not climbing big peaks, he tracks mountain lions, catching and collaring them for scientific research. A refugee from the Dot Com boom, Don now lives in Bishop, California, where he is also a medic on the Inyo County Search and Rescue Team. More.

Bruce Normand specializes in alpine-style ascents of technical routes in the high mountains. From Alaska to Patagonia and Japan to New Zealand, with long stops in Bolivia, Peru, and especially the European Alps, he has wandered the globe in pursuit of this addiction. However, for uncharted territory he makes annual migrations to Asia, where he has recorded more than 10 first ascents and numerous new routes on 6000m peaks in Nepal, Pakistan and Tibet.

With a PhD in theoretical physics from MIT, Bruce is a roving academic who can be found in the ivory towers of the world's leading universities when not in the mountains. More.

Joel Shalowitz, the base camp manager, has summited the highest peaks in the Andes and Cascades.  An avid warrior in the fight against cancer, Joel has participated on or coached 15 teams for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training (TNT) and Hike for Discovery programs and remains the only person to have participated in every type of TNT event among his  running, biking, triathlon and inline skating marathons.  In 2007, Joel co-founded Climb For Hope and collaborated in designing the successful inaugural expeditions of Cotopaxi and Aconcagua which raised over $150,000 to support the development of a vaccine at Johns Hopkins to fight breast cancer. When he isn't teaming up in the outdoors, Joel spends his time operating and advising for-profit and philanthropic start-ups. More.

Chris Stensland, camera man, is a ski bum and professional "shooter." During the winters he tumbles down the slopes of Vail. And the rest of the year...well it depends on what the options are. An experienced mountaineer, Chris specializes in adventure based photography. More.