Dan Mazur, Expedition LeaderMazur is a building designer from Seattle who has reached the summits of five 8000-meter peaks: Everest, K2, Lhotse, Makalu and Gasherbrum I. Climbing magazine named Mazur the "most successful American to ever mount an expedition." He has been leading and organizing successful Himalayan mountaineering expeditions for nine years. His written, photographic, and cinematic works have been featured in the London Alpine Journal, American Alpine Journal, Ito-Yuki Journal of the Japanese Alpine Club, Climbing, NBC Television, and The Discovery Channel.
Jon OttoOtto, a physicist and author from Washington State, is a gifted technical climber. He speaks fluent Mandarin, has written a guide book to rock climbing in Beijing and climbed Mustagh Ata and surrounding peaks several times. Otto's organizational skills are superb, and he has developed extensive contacts throughout Asia. He worked together with Betsy Damon to build the Living Water Garden, a community-based environmental education project in China, which won an award from the United Nations Environmental Agency.
Walter Keller
Keller is an electronic engineer and
Himalayan mountaineer from Pennsylvania. He
specializes in remote climbs of extreme
challenge. To his credit are first and second ascents
of routes on Lobuje West (6145 meters), Kutskulin
(6,450 meters) and of the 7,200-meter Pumori, located near Mount Everest.
