Everest Summiters Dr. Clare O'Leary and Pat Falvey continue the success on Denali!

Summit success for Irish seven summit team: At 0800 on Thursday June 16th five members of the Irish 7 Summit team successfully climbed Denali. The members were Pat Falvey, Dr. Clare O Leary, Ger Mc Donnell, John Roche and John Dowd.

The team endured 8 days of -20 degrees temperatures with 30-50 mile an hour winds with tons of snow falling each day. Yesterday was their final attempt at the summit. They team were very tired but delighted that they could summit in such tough conditions.

This is the fourth successful summit of Pat and Clare’s seven summit challenge.

They have previously summited Everest, Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, And now Denali.

Dr. Clare O'Leary became the first Irish woman to reach the highest point on Earth while Pat became the first Irishman to summit from both the Nepalese and Tibetan sides.

Clare O'Leary and Pat Falvey celebrate on the summit
of Mount Everest (29035ft/8850m)


Sirdar Pemba Gyalji celebrates with Sherpas Lamababu, Jangbu, Lhakpa and Nang Chemmi after reaching the summit of Mount Everest with Pat Falvey and Clare O’Leary


Looking towards the Hillary Step and beyond to the summit
ridge of Mount Everest

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Progress of the Irish Wyeth Everest Expedition 2004
on their final summit bid:

• Departed Base Camp Wyeth - May 13
• Departed Camp 2 Lowe Alpine - May 15
• Departed Camp 3 Spórt Corrán Tuathail - May 16
• Departed Camp 4 High Camp Wyeth - May 17
• Reached the summit at 6.45am - May 18

Motivational Lectures

• Mind Climb
• Reach for the Sky
• Psychology of success

High adventure Lecture Series:

• Operation Everest,2003-2004
• Beyond Endurance
• MT Everest "Only the Sky above".
• Antarctica, Deep in the Freezer, "The coldest place on Earth."
• A world apart. Stone age tribes to modern man "A walk in the Jungle"
• Rough Climbers: finding/ loosing myself in the Himalaya.
• The Seven Summits.
• A climb for Peace. Cho-Oyu in Tibet.
  Trekking Lectures.
• Nepal, trekking through the foothills, its people, cultures and landscape.
• Africa, a continent apart, Kilimanjaro, Mt Meru, it’s people and wild life.
• Russia, between the Caspian and Black Sea.
• Ireland a walking paradise,

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