Ex-Husky Mark Pattison Begins his Quest to Tackle Mount Everest
Mark Pattison, the previous College of Washington and NFL soccer player turned mountain climber, is off to the Himalayas.
On Tuesday night, he remaining Sunlight Valley, Idaho, for what could be two months of powerful mountaineering in Asia to navigate a person of the world’s most significant troubles.
Instead than keep up four fourth-quarter fingers, the one-time Husky extensive receiver has 7 lifted high for this adventure.
Pattison will endeavor to achieve the prime of 29,029-foot Mount Everest, which rests on the Chinese-Nepalese border, ranks as the highest peak on the world and for this climber will the past of the Seven Summits to conquer.
At the best, he’ll obtain himself standing bigger than the flight designs of a ton of jetliners. It is really a unsafe journey in which the weather conditions can modify in an quick and has claimed much more than 300 life.
“The amazing thing is no just one appreciates how this will all engage in out,” Pattison stated right before departing on a four-working day journey to get there.
Mark Pattison models his climbing equipment.
Mark Pattison photograph
NFL Movies will follow the progress of the former participant for the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Raiders and the Los Angeles Rams by producing documentary.
“We’re honored to share his inspiring story as par of our Existence After Soccer series,” explained Mike Derouin, NFL Media coordinating producer.
Shortly thereafter, Pattison will attempt to ascend nearby 27,940-foot Lhotse, the fourth-optimum peak globally, partly descending Everest, crossing a mountain saddle and heading back again up, all in 24 hours.
The 59-yr-outdated Pattison is attempting to come to be the oldest man or woman to scale both Mount Everest and Lhotse in just 24 hours of just about every other, anything carried out by only a handful of folks.
He also hopes to turn into the next NFL player to set foot atop Everest and entire the 7 Summits, signing up for Craig Hanneman, a 1970s defensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots.
Component of the cause that Pattison turned to climbing the world’s tallest mountains starting a 10 years in the past is his aggressive character.
He caught previous-minute, sport-choosing landing passes from Michigan and Oklahoma in his UW occupation, so he’s usually been in the middle of the motion.
He is having on Everest as aspect of a fund-raiser to overcome epilepsy, which afflicts 1 in 26 folks, and that consists of his daughter Emilia, 22, presently a university student at the University of Arizona.
“Her journey to conquer epilepsy and reside her life to the fullest has been 10 situations more challenging than anything I have at any time carried out,” Pattison claimed.
All those who would like to donate to the former Husky’s alpine initiatives to reward epilepsy can do so suitable in this article as a result of Greater Floor. We’ll be providing updates of his Everest and Lhotse expeditions, and you can stick to Mark’s reviews from the Himalayas listed here.
Pattison’s Everest quest initially was established to to place a calendar year ago, but the pandemic scuttled his plans. There is certainly no keeping him back again now.
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