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Hi, I’m Alan Arnette and welcome to my site. This is the main site but most of my current content is on my Wordpress Blog. If this is your first visit, welcome. If you are one of my millions of regular visitors, a sincere welcome back. The site is owned and run by Alan Arnette, is not sponsored or associated with any company, product or brand. The purpose of the website is to share my personal climbing experiences and to advocate for Alzheimer’s research. The site features detailed content on my mountaineering adventures, including trip reports, FAQs, pictures, videos, and climbing resources such as gear lists and training ideas. Additionally, the website serves as a platform to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s disease, a cause personal to me due to his mother’s, Ida, battle with the illness. I also offers a professional climbing coaching service called Summit Coach, helping aspiring climbers achieve their goals through personalized guidance informed by his extensive experience in climbing and business. I curate all content and that 100% of donations for Alzheimer’s research go directly to nonprofit organizations, none to me, ever. PersonalI retired from a 29 year career with HP in early 2007 to oversee my mother's final years with Alzheimer's. I enjoyed different jobs with HP in several US States and European countries. My work ranged from sales to marketing to product development to running worldwide businesses and almost always in a management role. My other interests include: photography, animals, business and of course, my family. My personal philosophy of life has always been one of balance. I try to put an equal amount of energy into my work, my family and time for myself. Animals have always been special to me: from my first Guinea Pig, Ralph, to my long time friend, Preston a.k.a. Roy, an excellent Lhasa Apso to my beloved cats Max and Mimi, and today Marley, our Boxer mix. I love all kinds. Digital cameras changed my life! There are thousands of images on this site with the majority taken digitally. I am adding more images and videos all the time. Please visit the Best Shots page to see some examples of what is on the site. There is an editorial section on business based on my experiences. I try to share these experiences through a series of essays on management, careers and business in general and always with a connection to climbing. Summit CoachIf you dream of climbing mountains but are unsure how to start or to reach your next level from a Colorado 14er to Rainier, Everest or even K2 we can help. Summit Coach is a consulting service that helps aspiring climbers throughout the world achieve their goals through a personalized set of consulting services based on Alan Arnette’s 27 years of high altitude mountain experience and 30 years as a business executive. Please see our prices and services on the Summit Coach website. Summit Coach, LLC is a Colorado based company. I have three areas of interest: professional speaking, climbing and Alzheimer’s causes:SpeakingMy influential speaking brings a new approach to motivation. My casual yet powerful style brings audiences into his high-altitude mountaineering with incredible pictures, videos, and stories while connecting with them on a real-world basis. Audiences leave entertained, educated, and motivated. I offer a unique approach where I combine my time as my mother's caregiver plus a career of running global businesses through the eyes of my mountaineering adventures to get audiences to think about goals, overcoming obstacles and celebrating life. My most popular presentation is Passion and Purpose: Making your Mark on the World. This presentation is a high impact multimedia presentation for corporate audiences takes audiences through the three phases of accomplishing a challenging goal: preparation, execution and overcoming adversity. Read More read more 
ClimbingAs a mountaineer, and I use that term loosely, I have been on 38 major climbs around the world since I started at age 38. I have climbed well above 6000 meters over ten times and Everest (29,035/8848m) four times summiting on May 21, 2011 Other 8000m summits include Manaslu (26,759' /8,156 m) in October 2013 and K2 (28,251'/8611m) on my 58th birthday on July 27, 2014 becoming the 18th and oldest American to summit K2 at the time. I have climbed all of Colorado's 58 14,000' mountains, 225 times with repeats. I completed climbing 7 of the 8 "7 Summits" between November 2010 and October 2011. You can read all the details on this site. My site's content is primarily about climbing with each major climb having a dedicated section with a trip report, FAQs, pictures, videos, and short stories. There are climbing resources that list my gear, my training and links to guides, web sites and more. The menu on the top-left of this page is repeated throughout the site so start there or take a look at my climb summary. A good place to start is to compare the climbs from Rainier to Everest or the 7 Summits in easy to read tables. Alzheimer's
I use this site to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease and the impact on individuals, caregivers and their families plus ways you can get involved before it is too late. To make this as real as I can over the internet, please visit Memories are Everything® for my personal experience. I have conducted three large scale projects for Alzheimer's: The Road Back to Mt. Everest in 2007/8 with climbs on Denali, Shishapangma, Aconcagua and Orizaba plus Everest. In 2011, The 7 Summits for Alzheimer's: Memories are Everything® campaign where I climbed 7 of the 8 of the worlds highest peaks on each continent aka The 7 Summits and in 2014, Climbing K2, the world's hardest mountain to fight the world's hardest disease, Alzheimer's. All of these are to raise awareness and $1M for research.
The Alzheimer's Immunotherapy Program of Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy and Pfizer Inc. funded my climbs for the 7 Summits campaign and ongoing efforts between November 2010 and November 2012. All money I raised then and now from donations goes directly to the organizations I have selected. During the campaign, content posted here was my own but subject to certain limitations in conjunction with the support of the AIP. Abila sponsored my K2 expedition. WritingI am a contributor to Outside magazine and Rock & Ice magazine on climbing subjects. If you will forgive the self promotion, Outside Magazine an extensive interview with me where I talk abut my childhood, mountains, Everest and of course Alzheimer’s. I appreciate their interest and help. They even said I was "one of the world's most respected chronicler of Everest" TERMS OF USEThese “Terms of Use” set forth the terms and conditions that apply to your use of www.alanarnette.com (the “Website”). 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Buying, using and linking images or content on this sitePlease note that all content on this site is a result of significant time and money and as such all images, videos, dispatches, essays and stories are original work and property of Alan Arnette unless otherwise noted. All content is protected by copyright laws. Images contain visible and invisible watermarks to protect my property. Please do not remove any visible marks. Please note that I rarely agree to using my images or content in books given publisher's terms (full and perpetual ownership in all current and future forms) so please only contact me if you are self published or have 100% control over the terms. If you would like to use any content or an image for personal, non-profit, educational (including children's books) or commercial purposes you will need written authorization and be asked to make a donation to an Alzheimer's cause or pay a fee. Please email me with the request. 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And for my last area, Alzheimer's Advocate, this is what my life's work is all about now. This disease has no cure, impacts over 25 million worldwide and took four of my aunts plus my mom, Ida, in August, 2009. Today, my climbing is to raise Alzheimer's awareness and research funds so that our children’s generation will never experience this robber of memories and lives.
