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.

Chinese Summit Everest with Olympic Torch
By Doug Pierson on May 8, 2008 11:03 AM | Comments (0)

*A Note from the Co-producer*

The Chinese team carried the Olympic Torch to the summit of Mount Everest this morning at 9:18. The climbing and communication ban on the Nepal side of Everest were immediately lifted. The State-run Chinese television released video from the summit on Everest and celebrated the completion of the most technically difficult leg of the around-the-world torch relay. The climber carrying the torch the final steps to the summit was a Tibetan woman from the Tibetan Mountaineering School.

Our blogger, Doug Pierson, has been writing dispatches to post once the ban was lifted, and we hope that you will take a minute to catch up with their team. After a rest at Camp Two yesterday, they began setting ropes along the route to Camp Three today. They’ll continue sleeping at Camp Two and working above the camp for a few more days before a planned return to Base Camp on May 11. Now that the climbing ban is lifted, they’ll be able to make a push to Camp Three and stay there to continue their acclimatization.

Callie Taintor Wiser
Co-producer, Storm Over Everest

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