No Way Home: The 2012 Mount Saskatchewan Attempt
In May of 2012, Saskatoon climbers attempted Mount Saskatchewan, the only unclimbed peak left in Canada’s remote centennial range in the Yukon. Situated over 100 miles by air from Haynes Junction YK, over the great glacier divide is a barren frozen destination, with no support available. Team Prairie Vertical set out with a goal of a coveted first ascent.
High on the mountain within reach of the summit conditions turned against them, and they soon released their goal of a first ascent had changed to getting back down safe and off the mountain. With the storm settling over the mountain, Steve cut the teams rations and began to lead the team down to the lower altitudes where there was a chance they could be extracted. Down through an avalanche shooting gallery and over collapsing snow bridges they traveled, by night and by day with food supplies dwindling, thus their time running out. Steve Whittington the expedition leader takes you through an audio visual presentation of the harrowing tale of their decent for seven days; with no way home, stuck on Mount Saskatchewan.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPKzujPH5o
Blog: https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/blog/posting.asp?ID=566
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Steve Whittington is President of Roadmap Agency Inc. He has also served for over a decade as a member of the Executive Team of Flaman Group of Companies an award-winning organization and has over 25 years of executive experience. Steve’s current board work includes serving as; President of Glenora Child Care Society; and Co-Chair of the Marketing Program Advisory Committee for NAIT’s JR Shaw School of Business. Previous notable board work included, Chair of the board for Flaman Fitness Canada, a national retailer, a Director for a meal prep internet Startup Mealife and Chair of Lethbridge Housing authority, the third-largest Social housing NGO in Alberta.
Academically, Steve was an instructor of Project Management at Lethbridge College for seven years. Steve holds a Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree; he is a Certified Sales Professional (CSP), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Marketing Specialist (CMS) and (CCXP) Certified Customer Experience Professional.
Steve’s first book Thriving in the Customer Age – 8 Key Metrics to Transform your Business Results teaches about the customer journey and provides a guiding framework spanning all stages of the customer experience. The book explains how every metric impacts an organization and how leaders can best utilize each metric to provide a stellar customer experience. Everyone knows the customer is the most important part of a business. This book provides the tools to improve an organization’s customer experience and drastically transform business results.
Recently Steve’s Blog has been profiled as one of the Top 75 Customer Experience blogs
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