Everest Challenge 

The goal of this program is to convey to youth the message that seemingly insurmountable goals can indeed be attained through proper planning, hard work and appropriate lifestyle commitments. This course serves as a follow-up to "Everyone Has An Everest," where two professional climbers, Nancy Feagin and Ben Webster, teamed up with Affinity Place, Inc., the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Florida National Guard and the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training to scale Mt. Everest. The climbers used Earth's tallest peak as a symbolic tool to convey to youth the message that seemingly insurmountable goals can indeed be attained through proper planning, hard work and appropriate lifestyle commitments. The entire climb was broadcast live via the Internet to thousands of youth around the world. The Everest Challenge serves as a nexus to get youth involved in their own personal challenge, and our course offers a professional, 45-minute classroom presentation offering them topics essential to future life experiences. Afterwards, a 24-foot climbing wall challenges them to simulate a climb of Mt. Everest. Read more about the Everest Challenge Online.

Course Objectives

• Relate personal goal setting to the challenge of planning an assault on Mount Everest or the climbing wall.
• Recognize the importance and difficulty of careful, thorough planning to the safety and success of a worthwhile challenge or endeavor.
• Identify the importance of focusing on goal strategies and avoiding factors like drugs that impede or prevent goal attainment.
• Recognize goals do not have to be accomplished to be worthwhile to pursue as long as they take you in a positive direction and one is able to take responsibility for planning one�s life and how to learn from one�s mistakes and set backs, including how to revise goals.
• Demonstrate the importance of teamwork and interpersonal skills, including clear communication, to the successful completion of cooperative tasks.
• Appreciate the self-confidence and increased enjoyment that results when worthwhile activities are carefully planned and executed.

Overview of topics

• Goals and Planning
• Communication
• Self -Confidence
• Life Choices
• Skill Training Through Experience

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