Fred’s team successfully summited on May 27th, all returned safely home, more dispatches to follow. Here’s a pic of Fred/InterWest on top of the earth.

The team is back, resting at basecamp. After a successful rotation through the Khumbu Icefall and a push up to touch camp 3, everybody is ready for a break.  We will spend at least a week resting and recovering and waiting for a promising weather window.  The next push up the mountain will be our…

For this dispatch I am going to jump back to last season. I have had some questions about the experience and if we are going to have a discussion on risk, I really can’t think of a better way to start. What follows is an excerpt from a larger piece I wrote, for the most…

Last year in late March, I headed to Nepal as part of an expedition to guide Mt. Everest and perhaps of more lasting importance, began a relationship and sponsorship with InterWest. I had met my friends at InterWest through a mutual love of skiing and, even though we come at it from different angles, careers…

Article featured in the January, 2016 issues of Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune and Money magazines.

InterWest ranks 3rd on the list of Top 25 Employee Benefits Consulting Companies in the Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Yolo Counties – The Sacramento Business Journal, January 2016