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Steve Ellis

In 2001 Steve Ellis was the guy that didn't climb Mount Everest. But he was the person that held an expedition together and made sure when each team member walked out of his camp at 6500 meters, they left with the same (or better) chance of reaching the summit as any other person on the mountain. Steve was as the Base and Advanced Base Camp Manager for the successful Australian Army Alpine Association 2001 expedition to climb Mount Everest the Tibet.

From training for high altitude in the flat tropics of Darwin, loosing team members during lead up training in Nepal, getting a team member to the summit and retuning to Nepal during the turmoil of the death of the royal family. Steve's talks are an inspiring, personal, humorous and at times, brutally honest look at the inner workings of a team at altitude and the challenges, frustrations and hardships they faced to achieve the goal of getting someone to the summit of the highest mountain in the world and back down safely

In 2003 he was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for his efforts on the Everest expedition.