Archived Expeditions of
David Lim and friends
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Mt Elbrus, Summit of Europe ( 5642m). Catch a glimpse of this windy windy climb in Russia, led by Dave for South Col Adventures in July 2003.See the photo gallery! |
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Mountain of the Star Expedition 2003: An all disabled mountaineers' climb of the Mexico volcanoes by Wong Ting Sern and David Lim. Inset: Luis, high on the Espinosa Route on El Pico de Orizaba (5700m); Mexico's highest peak. |
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ASCENT 8000: Climbs in Spring 2002 on Shishapangma (8046m) and Cho Oyu (8201m) by disabled climber David Lim.
A two-man attempt to climb, back-to-back, two 8000m peaks without the use of bottled oxygen.
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Summit climb of Mera Central Peak 6461m, March 2002. Warming up for two 8000m peaks on on of Nepal's most popular 6000m peaks in the quiet Hinku Valley |
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Climbing Mt Ararat, 5165m in Turkey, August 2001 - a rare and special climb up Turkey's legendary mountain.
Join the South Col Adventures team and David Lim on this short but memorable journey to Eastern Anatolia
Left: Faye Lee happy and triumphant on the top |
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The Singapore-Latin American Everest Expedition in 2001 to the north ridge, Tibet.
Join David and friends on a day to day account of a spectacular international expedition and its dramatic conclusion. The expedition set new altitude records by climbers from Singapore as well as changing mindsets as to the limitations of disabled people. |
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Chile, Atacama Desert and the High Andes, Jan 2001. Gil, David, Jorge and TingSern worked out on Cerro Plomo and Ojos Del Salado. |
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Tien Shan, Jul 2000. David, Wilfred and Roz with the CLIMB 2000 team training on Bayankol and Karly Tau peaks in Kazakstan |
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Feb 2000. David and Wilfred make the first all-Singapore ascent of Aconcagua (6962m) via the Polish Traverse and in alpine-style.
READ: The 28pp excerpt on the Aconcagua expedition; taken from David Lim's new book AGAINST GIANTS. |
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Voltaren Kilimanjaro Challenge 2004
Disabled, Not Unable
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the team
5 1/2 hands, 5 1/2 feet for four men - a strange combination from around the world; united by a common history of personal adversity and a quest for a route to Africa's summit |
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Paul Pritchard - UK.Well known extreme climber. Now hemiplegic from his 1998 accident on the Totem Pole, a sea stack off the Australian coast. Has limited control over his right side. Paul is also known for receiving the prestigious Boardman and Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature twice (for Deep Play, 1997 and The Totem Pole, 1999). His past specialty in extreme rock climbs on alpine peaks included a new route on the 1200 meter East Face of Central Tower in the Torre de Paine, Patagonia. At grade VI, 5.10, A4, the route's name, EL REGALO DE MWOMA, translates from the Patagonian native Tehuelche Indian language, "A Gift from God". |
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David Lim - Singapore. Best known in Asia for leading the 1st Singapore Everest Expedition in 1998, his 50 alpine and expedition ascents have included many climbs in the French, Swiss and NZ Alps; as well as the Andes. He summitted Cho Oyu ( 8201m ) in 1997. In 1998, shortly after returning from Everest, he contracted the rare nerve disorder Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and was totally paralysed for many months. Now partially disabled in his right leg and left hand. His comeback climbs have included a successful 2-man, alpine-style ascent of the Polish Traverse on Aconcagua, leading the 2001 Singapore-Latin American Everest Tibet Expedition, and a lightweight attempt on two 8000m-peaks. He is author of Mountain to Climb, and Against Giants |
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Pete Steane - Australia. Hails from the island of Tasmania. In 1982 he sustained a rock-climbing accident where a piece of climbing equipment pierced his spine. He now lives with permanent nerve damage and walks and climbs with the help of two leg braces. A teached by profession, Pete has climbed on the rock faces of Yosemite National Park ( USA ) and in the New Zealand Alps. |
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Jamie Andrew - Scotland. An accomplished technical alpinist, he suffered severe frostbite when he was trapped by blizzard conditions near Chamonix in January 1999.He and friend Jamie Fisher became trapped 4000m up on the north face of the Droites in the Mont Blanc area. Rescuers were unable to get to them for several days and by the time they were eventually plucked off the ridge Jamie Fisher was dead. Doctors were forced to amputate Mr Andrew's hands and feet which had been damaged beyond repair by the ravages of frostbite.
He became the first quadruple amputee to scale Ben Nevis in 2000. |
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FILM TEAM:
Slackjaw Productions have been making films for six years mostly in the field of climbing and mountaineering. Their list of projects include the seminal Hard Grit, Stick It, Stone Love, Blood Sweat and Bagels, One Winter, Safety in Mountains, Meltdown - Crisis in the Himalaya and Splinter. In the process they have garnered eighteen awards on the International Mountan Film Festival Circuit. They have also sold footage and done free-lance work for many TV networks.
The Kilimanjaro film team comprises the director/videographer pair of Richard Heap (above) and Benedict Bevan-Pritchard (below) |
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| Top: Pete Steane and Paul Pritchard in a Sep 13 feature for the Mercury newspaper. Photo by Raoul Kochanowski |
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| Top: Dave Lim and Jamie Andrew meeting for the first time in Glasgow, Jul 2001 |
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Left: Look Mom! No hands or feet. Jamie showing how it's done in the Swiss Alps. A spot of rock climbing in summer 2003. |
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Left: Hundreds of metres, high on the steep rock of EL Capitan (USA), the Slackjaw Productions team shows some lofty commitment to the ideal of filming climbing expeditions. |
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