Vern Tejas

Explorer, athlete and dog driver Norman Vaughan returns to Antarctica at age 87 to climb the mountain that bears his name.

Eight summits is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Everest. It was directed by Allan R. Smith in 2012 and produced by DreamQuest Productions. It features Bill Burke, Sharon Burke, Alan Arnette, Apa Sherpa, Vern Tejas, David Leano and others.

In Alaska, there have been many disputed claims to the first conquest of Mt. McKinley, and locals still insist that the honor belongs to three miners who climbed on a bet, armed with homemade climbing irons and bags of donuts... The documentary is the first episode of 'Mountain men', a British documentary series looking at the achievements of pioneering mountaineers. The series, accompanied by unique archival materials, detailed maps, and photographs, invites us to follow in the footsteps of these fearless explorers, and tells us their stories with all the romance and audacity, bravado and suffering, courage and miscalculation intact.