User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Davenport


 * Keep Chris Davenport is not just another skiier, he is one of the most notable of the current generation of ski mountaineers in the world. He was interviewed by the New York Times at great length in 2005.  He was the first skiier to ski down all 54 14,000+ foot peaks in the United States in a single year, as described in the Denver Post.  Having climbed just five of those peaks myself, I have a small sense of what that accomplishment entails.  The Vail Daily described him here as one of a "handful of skiers worldwide who climb Mt. Everest and other Himalayan peaks alpine style, without using supplemental oxygen or hiring porters and guides, and then click into their skis on the world's most dangerous slopes."  ESPN reported here on his 2000 foot ski descent of the Lotse Face at 24,000 feet on Mount Everest in early May, 2011, a major accomplishment in both skiing and mountaineering.  I would venture to say that 99.99% of the skiiers in the world have never skiied at 24,000 feet.  The Aspen Times reported here that professional guide Davenport and his team reached the summit of Mount Everest a few weeks later.  I have written a few biographies of mountaineers here.  Though we have no formal mountaineering notability standards here on Wikipedia as yet, I can attest that Chris Davenport is notable in the rarefied and extreme world of ski mountaineering.

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"one of North America's top 25 skiers by Skiing Magazine" and "two-time extreme skiing world champion"

Davenport was the first to ski down all 54 Colorado peaks over 14,000 foot elevation in a single year.

Davenport has been described as one of a "handful of skiers worldwide who climb Mt. Everest and other Himalayan peaks alpine style, without using supplemental oxygen or hiring porters and guides, and then click into their skis on the world's most dangerous slopes."

In May, 2011, along with Neal Beidleman, Davenport skiied 2000 feet of the Lhotse Face on Mount Everest, described as "one of just a handful of documented ski descents on the Lhotse Face".

Professional mountain guides Davenport and Beidelman reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 20, 2011 along with client Ephi Gildor.