The Family That Conquered Everest
At our March 4 meeting, speaker Alan Mallory entertained us with an absolutely fascinating lecture and slide show describing how he and his family reached the summit of Mount Everest in 2008.
Climbing Mount Everest is considered one of mankind’s greatest feats of human endurance. The two month quest to reach the highest point on earth is a journey filled with unparalleled challenges and some of the roughest and most extreme conditions imaginable. Alan and his family decided to undertake the challenge becoming the first family of four to successfully reach the summit. He explained that it was an expedition that challenged the mental, emotional and physical limits of their entire beings but to finally reach their goal was an incredible feeling.