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The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb was an expedition to reach the summit of
The Daily Record - In Washington - Earth Day The expedition's name was from its partnership with the Earth Day 20 Foundation, an organization celebrating the 20th anniversary of Earth Day that was led by Edward Furia. The climbers highlighted their expedition with a live satellite phone call to President
Summiters 1990s
/ref> **Robert Link **Steve Gall **Sergei Arsentiev **Grigori Lunyakov **Da Cheme **Gyal Bu **
NY Times article about this expedition from 1990
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The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb was an expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...
during Earth Week
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1990 led by Jim Whittaker
James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American mountaineer and mountain guide. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, on May 1, 1963 he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a ...
, the first American to climb Mount Everest (in 1963), envisioned by Warren Thompson, and marked the first time in history that mountaineers from the United States
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, Soviet Union
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and China
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had roped together to climb a mountain, let alone Mount Everest.The Daily Record - In Washington - Earth Day The expedition's name was from its partnership with the Earth Day 20 Foundation, an organization celebrating the 20th anniversary of Earth Day that was led by Edward Furia. The climbers highlighted their expedition with a live satellite phone call to President
George H. W. Bush
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as well as to Furia, Earth Day 20 organizers and thousands of supporters gathered in George, Washington
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, near the Columbia River
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on April 22, 1990. Whittaker called from base camp to pledge his support for world peace and attention to environmental issues.
The group also collected over two tons of trash (transported down the mountain by support groups along the way) that was left behind on Mount Everest from previous climbing expeditions.
Summiters
*Summiters in May 1990, as led byJim Whittaker
James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American mountaineer and mountain guide. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, on May 1, 1963 he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a ...
/ref> **Robert Link **Steve Gall **Sergei Arsentiev **Grigori Lunyakov **Da Cheme **Gyal Bu **
Ed Viesturs
Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer, corporate speaker, and well known author in the mountain climbing community. He is the only American to have climbed all 14 of the world's eight-thousander mountain peaks, and ...
**Mistislav Gorbenko
**Andrej Tselishchev
**Ian Wade
**Da Qiong
**Luo Tse
**Ren Na
**Gui Sang
**Yekaterina Ivanova
**Anatoli Moshnikov
**Yervand Ilyinski
**Aleksandr Tokarev
**Mark Tucker
**Wang Ja
**Warren Thompson
See also
*List of Mount Everest expeditions
This is a list of expeditions to Mount Everest. Many of these are mountaineering expeditions for exploration, sport, science or fundraising.
Introduction
There have been many expeditions throughout the 20th (1900s) and 21st (2000s) centurie ...
*List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is currently the world's highest mountain and is a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Everes ...
*Earth Day
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References
External links
NY Times article about this expedition from 1990
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1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...