Update are here:
Dispatch One: March 27, 2003 All equipment and food
packouts are complete, and today the team doc and
medic finalized the medical haul bag. After two and a
half years and a life of dreaming, we are a go and
heading to Everest.
Check here for the full dispatch.

MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE 2003
AMERICAN SKI EVEREST EXPEDITION

Seven American mountaineers will
travel to Everest. This will be the rendezvous and
starting point of their journey to attempt to
climb and ski from the summit of the highest point
on the planet, the 29,035-foot summit of Mount
Everest. From Katmandu the team will travel
over the Himalayan divide into the Tibetan
province of China to their base camp on the
Tibetan Plateau at 17,000 feet on the north side
of Mount Everest. From this base camp, the
team will spend 45 days climbing the North Ridge
of Mount Everest without the help of porters and
without the use of supplemental oxygen. The
specific goals of the expedition are the
following:

1) The safest possible
passage of all team members throughout the
expedition;

2) To climb the mountain
using the purest techniques: Without the aid
of porters or supplemental oxygen, and without
leaving any traces of our passage.

3) To place as many members
of the team as possible on the summit of Mount
Everest;

4) To become the first North
Americans to ski descend from the summit of Mount
Everest;

5) To improve on the teams
record of being the first climbers/skiers from the
western hemisphere to ski from 8,000 meters