Come out to the Columbia Center for the Arts on Thursday, June 7 for a celebration of Nepal and the work of bringing health care and education to the remote region of Kumari. The evening will start with food and community time at 6:30. Come hear and share stories of the Himalayas during the prelude [...]
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Experience an MLI Himalayan expedition as we mount a successful attempt of 20,305′ Island Peak. The film documents the dire need for health care in Nepal and the point is driven home when one of our own teammates becomes critically ill at 20,000′. A swift and efficient rescue must be launched to save her life. [...]
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………………………………………………………………………………………………… Big wall climber, Mark Smith, presents a slideshow of his route, Wings of Steel, the most controversial climb on El Cap. Journey back to 1982 and experience sabotage, starvation and slander as they put up arguably the hardest aid route on El Cap. The climb, trashed by locals as being a “bolt ladder” proved [...]
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On Sunday, October 24, MLI volunteers scrubbed, drilled and brushed clean four new routes on our “private reserve” climbing area near Smith Rock State Park. The most spectacular line runs up the spine of a free standing column then steps across a void to end thirty feet up at a set of anchors. From here [...]
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Shoshon Tama-Sweet, current Board Chair of MLI, is featured on the cover of Christianity Today. The article highlights his work fighting human trafficking in Oregon and working to provide a safer environment for our young people to grow up in. Check out the full article Here.
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