UPCOMING CLIMBS:
Climb For Hope Cotopaxi Expedition, January 3-11, 2009

Climb for Hope was organized to raise and channel funds towards targeted and promising research in the fight against breast cancer.  Our mission is to find a viable treatment for breast cancer within the next three years.

In two years, we’ve raised over $300,000, for a vaccine being developed at Johns Hopkins University. Not only does the vaccine address some of the most aggressive and lethal forms of Breast Cancer, but the research is expected to derive advances for many forms of cancer as well. Our work sped up the work being done by Dr. Leisha Emens by more than 6 months, potentially saving thousands of lives. One day this vaccine could be used preventatively in high risk women. 

Since 2007 more than 60 climbers have reached the summits of Mt. Cotopaxi, Kilimanjaro and Mt. Adams, changing their lives forever. More importantly, they’ve stepped up to make a real difference in the fight against breast cancer.

Report Cotopaxi Expedition 2008
At approximately 9am on a cold but sunny morning, Team Pittsburgh took the last final steps of a nearly 8 hour climb as we reached the summit of Volcan Cotopaxi and stood tall at 19,388 feet. Through the night climb to the top, we watched a lightning storm streak the skies above the Amazon Basin, the Southern Cross shine brightly above us, and only our headlamps lit the way as we paced ourselves foot, foot, axe, foot, foot, axe. Read More

Dr. Emens progress:
In two years, we’ve raised over $300,000, for a vaccine being developed at Johns Hopkins University. Not only does the vaccine address some of the most aggressive and lethal forms of Breast Cancer, but the research is expected to derive advances for many forms of cancer as well. Our work sped up the work being done by Dr. Leisha Emens by more than 6 months, potentially saving thousands of lives. One day this vaccine could be used preventatively in high risk women.

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Team Pittsburgh—the first regional team of the national Climb for Hope—was created this summer with the shared purpose of beating breast cancer…now.  Made up of five local marketing professionals, ages 33 to 51, the Team’s goal is to raise $50, 000 to honor the 50,000 women who lost their fights with breast cancer in the U.S. last year.

These funds will be directed to a promising vaccine being developed for late-stage breast cancer.  To raise the money—and awareness about the innovative research it supports—four members of Team Pittsburgh will attempt to summit one of the world’s highest active volcanos, Cotopaxi in Ecuador, in January 2008.  The fifth member will travel to Tanzania in June 2008 to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa.