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2010 - Tusker's reputation at high altitude prompts the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency to ask Eddie to assist with research and provide high altitude medical training for elite special forces operators.   The goal is to ensure that special operators

2009 - Tusker teams up on Kilimanjaro with Dr. Greg Bledsoe and Dr. Michael Callahan to run its first wilderness medical training course for medical professionals, where they earn CME study credits.   When climbing Kilimanjaro on a CME climb your multi-day

2009 - Amy and Eddie Frank are the medical guiding team on a Charity Trek to Everest Base Camp, Nepal. The trek is led by a 7-summit climbing friends of theirs. On the tough trek they scout the possibilities for

2008 - On Friday, Aug 1, 2008, Tusker and NASA astrophysicist, Dr. Laurance Doyle lead 47 adventurers to the remote far west of Mongolia to experience the magical total Solar Eclipse.   The path of totality begins in northern Canada where the

2000 – Eddie Frank’s belief in helping others prompts Tusker to start running Kilimanjaro charity climbs.  The first climb by the Make-a-Wish Foundation starts a trend that continues to this day, with over $13,000,000 raised so far on Tusker’s climbs.   A

2006 - Traveling 3,000 miles in Mongolia, Eddie and Amy discover one of the world's last pristine wildernesses and some of the richest history on the planet. It is Inhabited by nomadic Eagle hunters and Tuvan herders who have been

2005 - Tusker moves on from its overland expeditions with a final journey through the remote bush of Tanzania and Malawi. They end a chapter and begin a new one around the globe.   On the final days of the trip Eddie

2004 - On Eddie's 23rd Kilimanjaro climb he meets Amy, an accomplished outdoor guide and mountaineer who has spent most of her life leading trekkers through the outback of Canada.   They band together and create a new chapter for Tusker Trail