it was bitter sweet to see John when he got back from Everest. I met with him at Morgan Street Cafe. He had been on Everest just some 50 hours prior. He had lost 30 pounds and had taken a bit of a beating from the mountain but he always has such a great attitude. Below is a link to his blog detailing the events that led him to descend from Camp IV after 24 hours in the “death zone.”
The 2nd link is a short clip of the storm they descended through to make it back to base camp.
You can still donate to his cause to further orthopeadic research by going to http://www.goldenexpedition.org/
Discovery Channel will be airing 6 one hour episodes of John and Jon’s summit attempt in November of this year.
http://blogs.discovery.com/everest_2009/
Golden’s Blog:
http://www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/jgolden/
Video Clip in the storm:
http://www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/jgolden/videos/Golden%20Rescue.mov
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