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Tigress Productions filmed two teams on Everest this past spring and tonight, The Discovery Channel aired in the U.S. the first three episodes of the five part season. For the first time they filmed on the Nepal, south, side of Everest since the Chinese made it too difficult to climb from the north in 2009. Also they followed two teams, Eric Simonson’s International Mountain Guides in addition to their regular; Russel Brice’s Himalayan Experience (Himex). In a departure from their formula of interpersonal conflict, exaggerated drama and defiant climbers; this season focused almost exclusively on climbing. In the previous two continue reading

 

Anyone interested in chatting real time during the Discovery Channel Everest: Beyond the Limit tonight; follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/alan_arnette and put #EV09 at the end of each post. If you create a search with #EV09 it will make it easy to follow the chat. Maybe we can get some of the climbers who were there to join us. Starts at 6:00 Mountain Time

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