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Everest: Beyond The Limit To Air 27 & 30 Dec

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 26, 2009
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Everest: Beyond The Limit To Air 27 & 30 Dec
Everest: Beyond The Limit

Keith’s note: Now in its third season, the Discovery Channel’s Everest: Beyond The Limit is taking a new approach to filming this year and will feature both International Mountain Guides and Himalayan Experience in a five-part series.

IMG climber Scott Parazynski returned to Everest this season after coming tantalizingly close last year. The former NASA Astronaut was sidelined with a ruptured lumbar disc at 24,500′ on his summit bid in 2008. This year Scott came back fit and ready to top out with Danuru Sherpa. Scott achieved his goal at dawn on May 20, 2009. A veteran of five space flights and multiple spacewalks, Scott is the only person to both summit Mt. Everest and fly in space.

Sunday, December 27
8:00pm: Episode 1: early trips through the ice fall, David Tait’s summit with the rope fixing team and the fatal ice fall avalanche
9:00pm: Episode 2: John Golden’s summit attempt
10:00pm: Episode 3: main IMG team summit on May 20 (Scott Parazynski)

Wednesday, December 30
9:00pm: Episode 4: first Himex summits on May 21
10:00pm: Episode 5: second Himex summits on May 23

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.