EverestHistory.com: Brian O’Connor

2003 Team, 20 April 03: Back Row, from left: Brian O'Connor, Robert Boice, Bob Hoffman, Tom Burch. Front Row: Chuck Huss, Mimi Vadasz, Dan Smith, Robert Rowley, Brett Shepard

O’Connor was a member of the Everest03 Expedition, a group of nine experienced climbers ascending Everest to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful summit by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. O’Connor, who is a successful Scottsdale businessman, is also a pilot, and skydiver and though he refers to himself as a recreational climber he has an impressive mountaineering resume.

With his summit of Everest 4th Generation Arizonian O’Connor joins an exclusive club of just over 100 people who have climbed the “Seven Summits”, the tallest mountains on each continent.

His team's expedition reports are here.

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