Adventurer


Alan’s adventures go far beyond his three expeditions to Mount Everest . In his lifetime, he has also:

• Climbed the tallest peaks in North and South America – Alaska’s Mt. McKinley (20,320 feet) and Argentina’s Mt. Aconcagua (22,834 feet)
  
  
• Ascended four other high altitude peaks worldwide over 17,000 feet in Mexico and the Andes
  
  
• Run two 26.2 mile marathons
  
  
• Flown over 40 miles for over four hours high over the Canadian Rocky Mountains in his hang glider
  
  
• Kayaked Class IV white water
  


• Rafted Class V white water
  
  
• Completed some of the most challenging ice climbing routes in North America
  
  
• Made ascents of some of the classic alpine mountaineering routes in the Canadian Rockies
  
  
• Rock climbed throughout North America
  
  
• Made night scuba dives in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic
  
  
• Made day scuba dives beneath the ice of frozen mountain lakes in the dead of the Canadian winter
  
  
• Mountain biked some of the steepest, longest and most technically challenging single track trails in Canada
  
  
• Parachuted from 5,000 feet multiple times
  
  
• Raced down frozen Olympic tracks in a luge and bobsleigh at speeds of up to 55 mph
  
  
• Swam up to six hours at a time in near-freezing water as a long distance open water swimmer
  
  
• Been a member of 6 U.S. national championship-winning gymnastics teams
  
  
• Achieved “All-American” status as a gymnast 9 times
  
  
• Survived cancer of the blood after being given less than a year to live (what he considers to be his greatest adventure and achievement to date)
  
  
• Become one of less than a dozen people ever to achieve an elite level of fitness after a blood transplant for acute leukemia and regained 100 percent of the fitness he had prior to his last Everest expedition
  
  
• Been cancer-free for more than five years and is now considered medically cured