Expedition Hanesbrands Successfully Summits
Mount Everest
International Mountaineer Jamie Clarke and Climbing Team Successfully Summit the World’s Highest Peak
During Expedition to Test Innovative Champion and Duofold Apparel and Inspire Others to Set Ambitious
Goals
May 17, 2010 03:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Expedition Hanesbrands’ Mount Everest climbing
team, led by international mountaineer Jamie Clarke, reached the 29,035-foot summit of the world’s highest peak
this morning, celebrating a 30-month endeavor to design and test innovative apparel and inspire others to achieve
their own self-defined summits.
“I want to welcome 45,000 Hanesbrands employees to the top of the world,” Clarke radioed to Mount Everest
base camp. “Top of the world, baby, woo hoo!”
Shortly after summiting Everest, Clarke used a satellite phone to speak with Hanesbrands Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Richard A. Noll. “Congratulations on such an awe-inspiring achievement made with the help and
support of the men and women of Hanesbrands,” Noll told Clarke. “Success is ours. Let's relish the moment.”
After an 11-hour climb from Camp 4 on Everest’s South Col route, Clarke, 42, of Calgary, Alberta, Scott Simper,
the Expedition Hanesbrands videographer/photographer from Salt Lake City, and their Sherpa teammates reached
the summit at 8:40 a.m. Monday Nepal time (10:55 p.m. Sunday EDT). It was Clarke’s second summit of Everest.
“We've climbed our Everest, what's yours?” Clarke radioed to base camp, reiterating his familiar motivational refrain
for others to dream big and set their own goals in life.
Clarke and Simper, who wore specially designed Champion and Duofold gear, were joined on the summit by
Sherpa teammates Kami Sherpa (11 summits), Pemba Dorje Sherpa (seven summits) and Ang Namgyel Sherpa
(five summits).
The team has returned to Camp 4 at approximately 26,000 feet to rest before continuing on to Everest Base Camp.
During his climb and desc