FRONTLINE: storm over everest: summit attempt blog

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Doug Pierson

Doug Pierson Age: 37

Home: Seattle, Wash.

Education:
M.B.A. The College of William & Mary
B.A. Ohio Wesleyan University

Career and Hobbies: Previously with IBM Global Business Services
Left in December to train full-time for Everest summit attempt.

U.S. Marine Corps Reserve- Lieutenant Colonel
Two tours in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Deep-water scuba certified Divemaster

Oil painter and photographer

Sigma Chi Fraternity

"Renaissance Man" according to family and friends

Climbing Experience Highlights:
Seattle Mountain Rescue
Mount Whitney (three times)
Mount McKinley/Denali
San Gorgonio
San Jacinto
Mount Rainier (three times per year)
Mount Fuji (two winter ascents)
Mount Olympus (30-hour speed climb)
Mount Baker
Mount Adams (five times)
Mount Saint Helens
Mount Hood (four times)

Mountain Madness Logo Doug is climbing this year with Mountain Madness. Our thanks for their help making this blog possible.

In the lead-up to the May broadcast of Storm Over Everest, FRONTLINE takes you to Nepal to follow climber Doug Pierson on his first attempt to summit Everest. Pierson's journey will take him on the same route climbed by the teams caught in the 1996 storm.

Climber Expelled from Mount Everest
By Doug Pierson on April 23, 2008 9:53 AM | Comments (1)

*A Note from the Co-producer*

As mentioned yesterday, Nepalese officials made clear that climbers found with protesting paraphernalia would be removed from the mountain with their permits revoked. The military made good on that threat in the case of one American climber found to have a pro-Tibet banner on the mountain.

Security has been tightened below Everest Base Camp as well. Though military police have regular checkpoints throughout the region, these checkpoints are not typically used to search trekkers. However a number of these checkpoints have become active search centers since Doug and his team made their way up to Base Camp late last month.

Callie Taintor Wiser
Co-producer, Storm Over Everest

1 Comments

By Maureen Thome on April 30, 2008 11:54 PM

After just reading "High Crimes, The fate of Everest in the age of Greed" I would think everyone would be happy for extra security no matter what the reason.

I am no climber but an "armchair climber". I have read just about every book written on Everest in the last 10 years.

Am looking forward to the Frontline"s Storm over Everest"

I am intrigued by what makes a person climb a mountain.

Excellent web site

Maureen Thome

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