Our Crack Climbing team trained for years for this expedition.  We studied mountaineering techniques, and prepared ourselves. It worked - we summitted the big ones: Sunflower and Panorama. If you haven't been there, you haven't really climbed a mountain!
* marks Nebraska Natives, + marks Colorado Natives, ¤ marks Wyoming Natives
CLIMBER	BIOGRAPHY	CLIMBS
Ben Bettinger +	Expedition Cartographer, Junior (Age 3) Porter
	A life-long bachelor, Ben has a keen interest in trains, sweet streepers, and drawing maps. The University of Denver has awarded Ben the degree of "Infant Scientist" for his work in experimental psychology. He hopes to climb more mountains, and make another trip back to Nebraska.
Dick Bettinger +	Videographer, Logistics and Supply
	An experienced mountaineer, Dick frittered away his youth by climbing the Grand Tetons, Mt. Elbert, Gray's and Torrey's Peaks and other elevated venues. He is the only person we know who owns a set of crampons.
James Bettinger +	Climbing Sidhar, Equipment Maintenance
	James really owns the cool mountaineering gear he brought to both climbs. An experienced climber, he wonders, "does cow manure effect the integrity of the rope?"
Troy Bettinger	Expedition Leader
	Troy went on his first camping trip at the experienced age of six weeks old. Later, as he observed the crowds at the summit of Mt. Elbert (14,433ft) in 1982, Troy realized that he needed to find  solitude in other ways. Drinking, getting married, fathering children and working didn't do it. This kind of high-pointing does. His lifelong goal is to climb the highest point in the Netherlands: The Vaalserberg, 976 feet above sea level.
Marvin Floyd *	Native Guide, Nebraskan Translator
	Marvin is the first-born son of the king and queen of Gappiania, aka John and Betty Floyd, and has lived and worked all over the globe. Due to the strange custom in Gappiania where the youngest daughter inherits the throne, Prince Marvin had to get a real job. Ok, being a software development manager for the phone company isn't like being king, but it does allow him time for pursuits like 'peak bagging', skiing, woodworking, and travel.
Jim Hand ¤	Senior Porter, Wyominglish Interpreter
	For centuries, folks asked why Jim Hand hadn't been born. Then they wondered why he had been born. He's currently listed as 'Wyomingite, retired'.
Manus Hand ¤	Wyominglish Interpreter
	Manus Hand trained for the climb to Panorama Point by repeatedly rising to heights of more than five feet off the ground. Along with the thrill of conquest (and quite a few ounces of ingested alcohol),  Manus, known internationally since 1976 as "Bicentennial Ambassador to the Wyomings, creator of "Dead Presidents" web site, inspirational focus of the Manus Hand Fan Club, editor of the web-zine "Diplomatic Pouch", functioned as a "Voluntary Experimental Subject" for our research into "The Flat Zone" and the effects of altitude deprivation on climbers.
Glenn Leasure +	Still Photography, Meteorology, Cook
Kevin Stephens	Communications Expert, Transportation
	Between Mt. Sunflower and Panorama Point, Mr. Stephens has kept himself busy by independently visiting other extremes, including Death Valley, California in 1998, the Dead Sea, Israel, in 1999, and "It's not Tierra Del Fuego but you can see it from here" Punta Santa Anna, Patagonia, Chile, in 2000.
Chris George	Journalist
	A late addition to the Panorama Point climbing team, Mr. George gets paid to write words for the Cheyenne Tribune Eagle. Chris usually covers the legal pages and the state legislature. He did great on the climb.
Matt "Moose" Young	Photo-Journalist
	Another late addition to the Panorama Point climbing team, Mr. Young serves as a staff photographer on the Cheyenne Tribune Eagle.