Summit Coffee: The Summit Team of Exceptional Athletes

	Steve Ackerman Biographical: Steve is a handcyclist. (More forthcoming)
	Conrad Anker (websites: conradanker.com, ankerclimbingequipment.com) Biographical: (forthcoming)
	Fred Barth Biographical: Fred, a retired military officer, has been climbing for over 25 years. From the Sierra Nevadas and Yosemite of California, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, from the Canadian Rockies to the Southern Appalachians, Fred has pursued summits on snow, rock, and ice. He has climbed around the world, in the mountains of East Africa, the Andes of South America, the Alps of Europe, and the Karakoram and Himalayas of Asia, revelling in the mountains and the people who live there.
	Luis Benitez Biographical: Luis was born and raised in the lap of the Andes mountains, in Ecuador. Mountains were are a part of his earliest memories. No surprise that it was on the high peaks of Ecuador that he first learned to climb. When his family returned to the United States, Luis pursued his mountaineering and eventually became a distinguished instructor for the Colorado Outward Bound school. Since then, Luis has pursued his goal of becoming an internationally certified mountain guide. He owns his own guiding company and has recently become a guide for the prestigious Alpine Ascents International. Luis has climbed throughout the Western Hemisphere, from Denali in Alaska to Aconcagua in Argentina. He has two Himalayan expeditions to his credit, and will soon be guiding there as well. Luis is a true son of the mountains.
	Chris Morris Biographical: Chris began rock climbing at age 13 and has been a professional mountain and river guide since 1986. His adventures have taken him around the globe, including expeditions in the mountain ranges of Alaska, the Himalayas, North and South America and Antarctica. Chris splits his time living in both Boulder, Colorado, and Alaska, guiding and instructing backcountry skiing and mountaineering as well as rock and ice climbing. He is a member of the National Federation of the Blind climbing team which successfully summited Mount Everest, May 2001. The NFB Team climbed the seven summits with blind climber and Summit Team member, Erik Weihenmayer.
	Erik Weihenmayer (websites: touchthetop.com, climbingblind.org) Biographical: Erik, learning from doctors that he would lose his sight by age 13, determined to rise above his disability. Fewer than a hundred mountaineers have climbed all Seven Summits--the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Erik has reached all seven. "Touch the Top of the World" is Erik's book telling of the challenges he faced as a world-class athlete: acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, ice & rock climber.

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