R E T U R N  T O  T H I C K  A I R
Early April 2001 Alpine Ascent of Panorama Point, NE
5,424 feet above sea level

Return to Thick Air
Find Sandy Irvine
The Flat Zone
Speaking Nebraskan
Route Maps
Expedition map
Topo Map
Directions & Map
Leaving Loved Ones
Little America
Pine Bluff
Vanishing Point
NECOWY
Get to the Point
Advanced Base Camp
Alpine Assault
Crossing Dangers
Destination: Point
Summit Logs
Medical Experiments
Sandy Search
Downclimbing
Newspaper Story
Climbing Team
Rational Neo-Graphic
- English Climbers
- Climbing Links
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Bettinger Home
b01.jpg (9092 bytes) Our cartographer, Ben Bettinger, (shown at left) has spent the last three years preparing for this expedition. In addition to his artistic duties, he served as a junior porter on the climb up Panorama  Point. He drew the official expedition map, below.

Map of Nebraska by Ben Bettinger, age 3

Note: This site, all images and all pages copyright © 2001 by Troy C. Bettinger, Jim Hand and Glenn Leasure.