The Associated Press. October 28,2007 – KATMANDU, Nepal: A cancer awareness group and an international team of musicians returned from the Mount Everest area after performing what they said was the world’s highest concert on land an raising an estimated US$250,000 for a local cancer center hospital.

The “Everest Rock” concert organized by the U.S.-based Love Hope Strength Foundation was held Oct. 21 at 5,650 meters (18,540 feet) in the...  Read More »

23 October, 2007 – By Chloë McCulloch – Gardiner & Theobald surveyor is playing drums on Mount Everest today along with Glenn Tilbrook and Nick Harper to raise money for cancer charities. Gardiner & Theobald’s Garrie Renucci is playing in a rock concert at 18,000 ft on Mount Everest today after a 14-day Himalayan trek. He is playing percussion for a superband giving the world’s highest ever acoustic concert. In the process...  Read More »

October 23, 2007 – Stay in Touch loves good causes and loves world records, but we are starting to suspect the planet may be approaching satiety on events that seek to combine the two. We have decided to bring the curtain down on such publicity seeking combos and have set a hypothetical date of November 16 as the limit.

Today’s cause/record combo is “The World’s Highest Concert”, staged in aid of “Cancer Awareness”...  Read More »

October 23, 2007 – THEY say it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock’n'roll. This adage has never been more appropriate than for the 40 rockers, trekkers and cancer survivors who spent 14 days trekking to the 8850-metre Mount Everest to participate in the world’s highest concert on Sunday. Slim Jim Phantom, of rockabilly band Stray Cats, Glenn Tilbrook, of UK Squeeze, and Cy Curnin, of the Fixx, were some of the musicians who...  Read More »

October 23, 2007 – A concert has been held on the slopes of Mt Everest. It was billed as “Everest Rocks” and saw a group of musicians on a legal high. More than 30 people trekked for two weeks up the slopes of Everest to perform the world’s highest concert near the base camp used by mountaineers scaling the mountain. The event was a part of a fundraiser for the Love, Hope, Strength Foundation to raise money for cancer patients in...  Read More »

October 23, 2007 – Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats and Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze are among those who have played a concert higher than anyone else. Phantom and Tilbrook, along with Mike Peters of The Alarm, Cy Curnin and Jamie West of The Fixx and British singer-songwriter Nick Harper, have played a show on the slopes of Mount Everest. Peters says Everest allowed them “to share with her some of our humble songs and to break the record for the...  Read More »

October 22, 2007 – KATMANDU, Nepal — A cancer awareness group and an international team of musicians claim to have staged the world’s highest concert — on the slopes of Mount Everest. The U.S.-based Love Hope Strength Foundation said on its website the “Everest Rocks” concert was held on Sunday at 5,650 meters (18,540 feet). Earlier, the group said it intended to register the performance with Guinness World Records. Six musicians...  Read More »

Oct 22 2007 – A cancer awareness group and a team of British and US musicians claim to have staged the world’s highest concert – on the slopes of Mount Everest. The US-based Love Hope Strength Foundation said on its website the Everest Rocks concert was held yesterday at 18,540 feet. Earlier, the group said it intended registering the performance with Guinness World Records. Six musicians performed at the concert – Mike Peters of The Alarm, Slim...  Read More »

Monday, October 22, 2007 – KATMANDU, Nepal—A cancer awareness group and an international team of musicians claim to have stage the world’s highest concert- on the slopes of Mount Everest. The U.S.-based Love Hope Strength Foundation said on its website the “Everest Rocks” concert was held on Sunday at 5,650 meters (18,450 feet). Earlier, the group said it intended registering the performance with Guinness World Records.

Six musicians...  Read More »

21 October 2007 – Mike Peters will also perform to around 10,000 in Kathmandu. Welsh rocker Mike Peters of The Alarm will be on top of the world after trekking to Everest to perform what they say is the world’s highest gig. Peters, who has twice been diagnosed with cancer, has already played to adventurous fans at the top of Snowdon. But he has reached even greater heights for his new fundraiser – trekking for ten days to reach Everest...  Read More »

October 10th, 2007 – KATMANDU, Nepal- American and British rock and folk singers will stage a concert on Mount Everest for a cancer charity and a bid to earn a world record for the highest concert ever, organizers said Wednesday. The concert, on Oct. 21 will be held at 5,550 meters (18,200 ft) near the Mount Everest base camp used by mountaineers who scale the world’s highest peak, said James Chippendale of the Colorado-based Love Hope Strength Foundation,...  Read More »

October 4, 2007 – This weekend more than 80 Dallas residents, cancer survivors and musicians from across the world will embark on a journey to the heights of Mount Everest to raise money for cancer research. The group responsible, the Love Hope Strength Foundation, was founded by two-time cancer survivor Mike Peters of the band The Alarm and fellow cancer survivor James Chippendale, who is also president of CSI Entertain,ent and a longtime Dallas resident.

“It...  Read More »