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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, April 22, 1992

Climbing the mountain within

JASON KEENAN

in staff

Climbing the highest mountain
in the world was not the most dif-
ficult thing Dan Culver has ever
done.

“Climbing Everest required
climbing a bigger mountain before
I got to the Himalayas, the Everest
inside myself,” said 4

top of the world, Culver spoke
about something he knows a lot
about, motivation, to the Selkirk
College athletics department's
award dinner last Wednesday

“Successful people are the
ones who can take their failures
and move on.”

Compared to the rest of his
expedition, Culver said he was a
relatively inexperience high-alti-
tude climber. He had done high
altitude climbing in North and
South America, and in Nepal. In
Nepal, he failed twice to reach
the summit of Tamsarko.

That failure challenged him.
As well, hearing the stories of
Everest climbers he met in Nepal,
the romance of the world’s tallest

mountain grew within him.

“I believe in the Nike slogan.
Just do it.”

There is a lot more involved in

After a perilous climb to the
fourth, and highest base camp,
Culver was ready, along with his
friend, to make an attempt for the

‘Successful people are the ones
who can take their failures
and move on.’

— DAN CULVER
5th Canadian to summit Everest

getting to the top than climbing
the mountain. Culver was part of
an international team that went to
Everest in the fall of 1990.

“On a challenge like this you

have to be able to visualize your
final goal." For Culver, that final
goal was a wind- and snow-swept
piece of rock over five-miles
high.
“On this climb, the optimistic
viewpoint helped people get
through.” The climbers in his
expedition who didn’t prepare
mentally started to get sick and
stop short of the summit

The seven-day walk towards
the base camp gave Culver the
time to get to know his fellow
climbers, and the time to get to
know himself.

summit after a night of sleep.
When they awoke the next day,
there were high winds and snow.
Culver was afraid that the late-
September window of good
wether had ended.

They decided to make an
attempt, but the snow was too
deep, and they had to return all
the back to the base camp, four
camps below.

Culver explained that it is nec.
essary to fetum to base camp to
recover, since the mind does not
function properly at the higher
altitudes, and the body deterio-
rates very rapidly.

After a short recovery period,
Culver and his partner decided to
set up a base camp as close to the
summit as possible in the hope

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that the weather would clear,

When they awoke on the
morning of October 4, the snow
and winds had abated, and the
way was Clear for a final summit
attempt.

On the final approach to the
top, the climbing was steep and
challenging. Culver and his part-
ner knew they were there for each
other, but decided that being
roped together would slow them
down, and might keep them from
making it to the peak.

The slide Culver showed of the
final leg of the climb, the Hillary
Step (named for the first man to
summit Everest, Sir Edmund
Hillary), said more than word
alone could about motivation.

The step is a 70 foot piece of
rock, covered with ice, snow, and
rock. On either side are step
drops down. The fall wouldn't
kill you.

You'd starve to death before
you hit the bottom.

If you can muster up the
courage to cross those last 70
feet, you can probably do almost
anything.

After reaching the top, Culver
unfurled the Canadian flag, and
spent 45 minutes enjoying the
moment. But getting to the top is
only half the journey. Culver said
you are tired, you are suffering
from altitude fatigue, and you
have to face all the same perils
that you faced on the way up,

again.
The altitude affected Culver.

He froze his fingers, hands, and
feet in his time on the peak, and
still suffers from poor circulation
in his hands.

Culver is not content to rest on
his laurels. He said his next
biggest challenge was a relation-
ship, and he was engaged in

February. He is planning an expe-
dition to the second highest
mountain in the world, K2, for
sometime next year.

“We all have dreams in our
lives. Sometimes we act on them,
sometimes we don't. We lose
something when we don't.”

You can't climb anywhere higher than where Dan Culver
has climbed. Culver was the fifth Canadian to reach the

summit of Everest.

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Jason Keenan

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The Stanley Humphries’ ten-
nis team is set to move from
practice to play.

Because Kimberley has the
only other team in the Koote-
Nays, team coach Barry DePaoli
said that the teams biggest limi-
tation is the travel budget. Most
of that goes towards sending the
team to the Provincials, which
will be held May 30 and 31 in
Kelowna.

“We have to travel to play, so
we really concentrate on practic-
ing,” he said. The team practices
every Tuesday through Thurs-
day.

Their first match of the season
will be a week today in Kimber-
ley. They then head to Vernon
for a series of four matches in
Vernon on May 8 and 9.

The girl's team is made up of
Laurel Closkey, Kelly Davidoff,
Christina Evdokimoff, Andraya
Hughes, Jacylyn Kalesnikoff,
Angela Stoochnoff, and Ryanna
Westoff.

Graeme Basson, Marcel
Dusseault, Jeff Evdokimoff, Kurt
Roberts, Mitch Stoochnoff, Wayne
Stoltz, Ryan Vatkin, and Rodrigo
Barbosa are the boy's team.

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Wednesday, April 22, 1992

The Castlegar Sun

Page 11A

Representatives from the Castlegar and District Senior Citizens Action Commit-

tee picked a winner for their
nikiff, Jack Nichyalodoff and E'

Gringer of Castlegar.

Easter Prize Hamper worth $100; (I-r) Mary Plot-
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SUN STAFF PHOTO / JASON KEENAN

= Chip

Continued from 3A

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P Yt (public
and private roads, barge and rail).
Public consultation is consid-
ered critical to the successful
completion of the Chip Trans-
portation Study. A consultation
Process will take place in select-
ed communities to obtain public
input which will assist in the
development of acceptable trans-
portation alternatives.
Community open houses will
be held in May in the three com-
munities of Nakusp, New Denver
and Appledale. These events will
provide an opportunity for indi-
viduals and interest groups to

as well as
Study resource people, to discuss
the study goals and findings,

= Bridge

issues of concern, as well as
future directions. Public pastici-
pation in this study process is
anticipated and welcomed.

Continued from 1A
that were set up in the Columbia
River, have finished their drilling
and testing this past weekend,
and were removed.

“They were testing the terrain
under the water for its capacity to
support the bridge,” Farrell said.
This was a part of the continuing
design process.

The construction of the bridge,
which is supposed to go from
Castlegar and Robson at the point
half-way between the old ferry
landing and the CP rail bridge,
was postponed February 24 for
one year, due to provincial bud-
get constraints.

In memory

Mary Plotnikoff

On Saturday, April 18, 1992
Mary Plotnikoff passed away at
the age of 81.

Funeral service for the late
Mrs. Plotnikoff were held Mon-
day, April 20, and continued
Tuesday, April 21 at the Castle-
gar Funeral Chapel with burial at
Park Memorial Cemetery in
Castlegar.

Mrs. Plotnikoff was born on
February 23, 1911 at Canora,
Saskatchewan and grew up there.
She came to BC in 1931 and
lived in Gibson Creek where she
married Bill Plotni in July of

“Mrs. Plomnikoff is survived by
her husband, Bill; one son, Bill
of Castlegar; three daughters,
Olga Faerben of Abbotsford,
Larissa Kalin of Vancouver and
Vera Potapoff of Castlegar; ten
grandchildren; one brother, John
Salekin of Castlegar and two sis-
ters; Polly Zaitsoff of Gibson
Creek and Helen Julsrud of
Castlegar.

Funeral arrangements were
under the direction of Castlegar
Funeral Chapel.

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1931. They have lived in Castle-
gar since 1952. Mrs. Plotnikoff,
along with Mrs. Saunders, was
active in raising money for the
hospital to provide equipment to
transport premature babies. She
was also active in the cooking
groups and enjoyed needle work
and gardening.

In memory

Martha
Relkoff

On Saturday, April 18, 1992,
Martha Relkoff of Raspberry
passed away at the age of 99
years.

Mrs. Relkoff was born Decem-
ber 25, 1892 in the Village of
Slavyanks, Caucasus, Russia. she
came with her parents to
Saskatchewan in 1899 and moved
to Ootischenia in 1909. She mar-
ried Peter J. Relkoff at Brilliant on
March 10, 1911. The family
moved to Raspberry shortly after
and lived there since. Mrs
Relkoff was a member of the
Christian Community of Univer-
sal Brotherhood which later
became the Union of Spiritual
Communities of Christ. She was a
life long member and very devout
in the community especially as a
Psalm Singer. She enjoyed gar-
dening and cooking and was
known for the hospitality.

Mrs. Relkoff is survived by
two daughters; Mrs. Nellie
(Alex) Verigin of Raspberry and
Mrs. Laura (John) Verigin of
Grand Forks, 14 grandchildren,
20 great grandchildren, and 7
great great grandchildren, one
sister Mabel Pereversoff of
Mountain View Lodge.

Mrs. Relkoff was predeceased
by her husband in 1962, son
Peter J. in 1991, daughter, Helen
Chernenkoff in 1991, brother
William Malloff in 1968 and one
sister Mary Androsoff in 1988.

Funeral service was held at
the Brilliant Cultural Centre on
Tuesday and Wednesday with
burial in the Brilliant Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements were
under the direction of the Castle-
gar Funeral Chapel.

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