Mt. Everest Summiter Bob Hempstead finishes the seven summits

His short story! I was born and raised on a farm in Nebraska and enjoyed practicing rope tricks. While attending a trick roping school in Arizona as an adult, I met people that had performed rope tricks on the Great Wall of China and other cool historical places. At that time I was planning to climb Mt. McKinley and figured I could perform a rope trick on the summit. After summiting McKinley, I decided to attempt a rope trick on each of the Seven Summits, which I completed this July on Elbrus. I still live in Alaska and work in Prudhoe Bay for BP Alaska as an Instrument Technician.

The attached pictures are of me doing rope tricks on McKinley and Aconcagua.

After joining the Army and leaving the flatlands of Nebraska, I ended up After joining the Army and leaving the flatlands of Nebraska, I ended up stationed in Alaska. It was in Alaska that I got the bug to climb mountains.

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