Talk Show Arc’teryx SOHO MARCH 18 2020 .
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KEN KAMLER : SURVIVING THE EXTREMES
Join us at Arc’teryx Soho, as Dr. Ken Kamler talks about the second deadliest day in the history of Mount Everest climbs that happened in 1996 and what it was like being the only doctor on the mountain that day.
Come ready to learn!
7PM – 9PM
$5
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Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth’s surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them?
Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A former vice president of The Explorers Club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some of the most treacherous and remote regions in the world. A consultant for NASA, Yale University, and the National Geographic Society, he has explored undersea caves, crossed the frozen Antarctic wastelands, and stitched a boy’s hand back together while in knee-deep Amazonian mud.
Dr. Kamler was the only doctor on Everest during the tragic expedition documented in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and helped treat its survivors. Dr. Kamler has devoted his life to investigating how our bodies respond to “environmental insults”, a nice way of saying the things that can kill us, and watched while some succumbed to them and others, sometimes miraculously, overcome them. While words like “extreme” and “survival” have lost some value from overuse and media hype, Dr. Kamler will explain that there is a real risk when the body’s capacities are put to their greatest test, and then, life itself is at stake.
7PM Doors Open
7:30PM Presentation
8:30PM Q&A and Book Signing ($20 per book. Cash Only)
All proceeds go to US Nepal Climbing Association.
USNCA will also be collecting used climbing gear and sending it to Nepal.
Anything you are not using, plan on replacing or upgrading – please bring it with you for this worthy cause.
Boxes will be available at the door and USNCA is taking anything from harnesses to helmets to carabiners to jackets. If you climb with it or in it – it counts!
Come ready to learn, have fun and participate!
LOCATION:
Arc’teryx Soho, 169 Spring StreetNew York, NY 10012
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY:
Arc’Teryx Soho Community Ambassador, Vanessa O’Brien, is an American/British mountaineer, explorer and author. She became the first American/British woman to summit K2 on July 28, 2017. Vanessa summited five peaks over 8,000 meters, was the first female to set a speed record for climbing the seven summits (a 2015 Guinness World Record for 295 days). Vanessa has also skied the last degree to both the north and south poles, becoming the first woman to complete the Explorers Grand Slam in under a year.
In 2018, Vanessa received Explorer of the Year from the Scientific and Exploration Society, and in 2019, she received the Fearless Girl award from New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Her first book, To The Greatest Heights, will be out on June 7, 2020, published by Simon & Schuster.
INTERVIEW BY:
James M. (Jim) Clash is a longtime participatory adventure journalist who writes for Forbes. An Explorers Club Fellow and former Board Director, Jim has interviewed the likes of John Glenn, Sir Edmund Hillary, Neil Armstrong, Reinhold Messner, Jim Whittaker, James Cameron, Buzz Aldrin, Chuck Yeager, Mario Andretti and Elon Musk. In search of adventure stories, he has been to the North and South Poles, flown at Mach 2.6 to 84,000 feet above the Earth in a MiG-25 fighter jet, climbed the Matterhorn and virgin peaks in Greenland and Antarctica, driven a Bugatti Veyron at 253 mph, flown with the Air Force through Hurricane Dorian, bobsledded with the Olympic Team and hunted dinosaur bones in Mongolia, among other things. Jim has an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Maryland. He also has a ticket to fly in space with Virgin Galactic
US NEPAL CLIMBERS ASSOCIATION IS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN 2014. THE ORGANIZATION’S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH AND PROTECTION OF MOUNTAINEERING AND CLIMBING WORLDWIDE, ADVANCE SAFE AND ETHICAL MOUNTAIN PRACTICES AND PROMOTE RESPONSIBLE ACCESS, CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
THE ORGANIZATION OPERATES THROUGH THE WORK OF ITS COMMISSIONS, WHICH MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, SET POLICIES AND ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF THE MOUNTAINEERING COMMUNITY.
US NEPAL CLIMBERS ASSOCIATION IS RECOGNIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS AN CLIMBING ASSOCIATION REPRESENTING MOUNTAINEERING AND CLIMBING AND AIMS FOR THE VARIOUS PURPOSES THAT RELATES TO MOUNTAINEERING CLIMBING.
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Proceeds will be donated to US Nepal Climbing Association . US Nepal Climbers Association is non-profit organization which was founded in 2014. The organization’s mission is to promote the growth and protection of mountaineering and climbing worldwide, advance safe and ethical mountain practices and promote responsible access, culture and environmental protection. The organization operates through the work of its commissions, which make recommendations, set policies and advocate on behalf of the mountaineering community. US Nepal Climbers Association is recognized by the Department of Treasury, United States of America as an climbing association representing mountaineering and climbing and aims for the various purposes that relates to Mountaineering Climbing.
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