President Bush on World T.E.A.M. Sports’ Soldiers to the Summit

Former President George W. Bush Provides Encouragement to Disabled Veterans Embarking on Himalayan Climb Twelve injured soldiers to join Erik Weihenmeyer in 20,000 foot climb marking tenth anniversary of his historic summiting of Mt. Everest. GOLDEN, CO, August 4, 2010 – Former President George W. Bush called a group of disabled veteran athletes today to [...]

Final Soldiers to the Summit training before Nepal!

What an awesome weekend. With the Soldiers to the Summit trip rapidly approaching (10 days from today) there was a desire to get some additional training done in Colorado. The added bonus of this training is that we were joined by GX magazine as the National Guard is one of many great sponsors of this [...]

Soldiers to the Summit 2010 Expedition Video – Meet Cody, Steve, and Ike

The World T.E.A.M. Sports‘ Soldiers to the Summit team held a training session in May 2010 in and around Camp Hale in Colorado. Camp Hale is high in the Rocky Mountains, south of Vail, and served as the World War II era training grounds for the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. Cody Miranda, Ike Isaacson, and [...]

Soldiers to the Summit 2010 Expedition Video – Meet Aaron "Ike" Isaacson

World T.E.A.M. Sports’ Soldiers to the Summit team held a training session in May in and around Camp Hale in Colorado. Camp Hale is high in the Rocky Mountains south of Vail, and served as the World War II era training grounds of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. Ike did a quick interview just after [...]

Live from the Rocky Mountains with Outward Bound

This is the first test of our cell phone blogging/dispatch system. We’re sitting above 10,000 feet in the Rockies outside of Leadville, Colorado. Amazingly, we have cell reception, and the battery in my iPhone is not dead yet. Day One of our outward bound course is complete. Lots of gear sorting today, followed by hours high in the trees — in ropes course. The weather threatened all day with possible snow and rain. But it never opened up. The team (Steve, Ike, Cody, Mike, and the film crew) will camp out under tarps tonight. The MSR stoves should be going any second now. I’m hungry and looking forward to dinner.