World T.E.A.M. Sports at 20 Years October 2013 | Page 14

Riders celebrate their arrival in Virginia Beach, Virginia at the conclusion of the 2010
Sea to Shining Sea ride. World T.E.A.M. Sports archive photograph.

In October 2010, World T.E.A.M. Sports directed the inspiring
Soldiers to the Summit expedition, a part of the organization’s ongoing
Military Initiative. The three week expedition brought together a team
of disabled veterans and able-bodied climbers who ascended to the
summit of 20,075 foot Lobuche East, a rugged ice-covered peak in
Nepal near Everest Base Camp. Overcoming obstacles along their trek,
the team successfully summited Lobuche and returned safely to the
United States. The expedition generated two documentaries,
Conquering the Climb, on the Pentagon Channel that debuted in March,
2011, and a theatrical release, High Ground, by Stone Circle Pictures and
Serac Adventure Films, which debuted in February, 2012 and on cable
television in November, 2013.
In 2011, two new events on the World T.E.A.M. Sports schedule
debuted – the Adventure Teen Challenge in August and the Family
Day Out in November, both in Washington, DC. The Adventure Teen
Challenge brought together teenaged disabled and able-bodied athletes

Climbers at the summit of 20,075-foot Lobuche East in Nepal during the 2010
Soldiers to the Summit expedition, one of World T.E.A.M. Sports’ Military Initiative
events. Didrik Johnck photograph.

for a day of outdoor recreational sports, including hiking, bicycling and
canoeing. The Family Day Out offered an afternoon of cycling for
wounded veterans and their families in Washington, an opportunity
for recreation away from the veterans’ hospitals. World T.E.A.M.
Sports athletes also participated in several triathlons and in the
Warrior 100K, an invitational mountain biking event in Texas in 2011,
2012, and 2013, hosted by former President George W. Bush.
In late February 2012, World T.E.A.M. Sports hosted the second
Soldiers to the Summit event, a winter camp at the Snowbird Resort in
Utah. This World T.E.A.M. Sports Military Initiative event provided