
Filmmaker Michael Brown
When a The North Face expedition team made up of Conrad Anker, Pete Athans, Kristoffer Erickson, and others set out to Nepal in April 2005, its biggest challenge wasn't climbing a 21,128-foot Himalayan peak called Cholatse. It was helping Dr. Geoff Tabinan American ophthalmologist and founder of the Himalayan Cataract Projectto perform cataract surgeries on 255 blind villagers. The story of the team's medical work and high-altitude climbing became the subject of an Outside feature story (see “The Light of the Seven Mountain Suns,” December 2005), and a