June 27 , 2009, Colorado Springs, CO.
Join 100 musicians, cancer survivors and supporters as we hike Pikes Peak, “America’s Mountain”.

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June 2007
It started with a few small steps 1,576 to be exact. That was the number of steps needed to perform a morning ascent up the Empire State Building, led by two-time cancer survivor Mike Peters. The Empire State Building event was a successful prelude to the ultimate high: Everest Rocks-The Love Hope Strength Foundation’s October Fundraising Trek & Rock Music Concert at the base camp of Mt. Everest.

As cofounder Mike Peters...  Read More »

August 8th, 2007
A rock star from Petersfield plans to take music to new heights-by playing a gig on Mount Everest. Jamie West-Oram is set to trek with his band The Fixx to the base camp of the world’s highest mountain and then join other groups in playing a unique fundraising concert. Some rock stars may love to get high before a show but few make it to 5,500m. And Mr. West-Oram said he is eagerly looking forward to the project.

“This...  Read More »

October 20, 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 on Sunday at 18,540 ft. Earlier, the group said it intends to register the performance with Guinness World Records.
Six musicians performed at the concert- Mike Peters of The Alarm,...  Read More »

October 10, 2007
A group of musicians is planning to hold the world’s highest rock concert at the foot of Mount Everest in Nepal this month. Organizers announced Wednesday that nearly 40 musicians, including cancer survivors, will perform above an Everest base camp at Kalapathar (5,500 meters up) on or around October 22. Proceeds from the concert will go towards buying medical equipment for a cancer hospital located near Nepal’s capital...  Read More »

March 13, 2007
NORTH Wales musician Mike Peters yesterday announced a series of fundraising gigs- a thank you to health workers who helped him overcome cancer. The Alarm frontman was twice diagnosed with the disease and twice managed to beat it. Yesterday he pledged to give something back to the people who helped him by playing a series of groundbreaking gigs across the globe.

The Dyserth dad-of-two will perform the first-ever concert at the...  Read More »

March, 31, 2007
The Alarm, Billy Duffy (of the Cult), Slim Jim Phantom (the Stray Cats), Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) and Dave Wakeling (English Beat, General Public) are the initial acts confirmed for an October acoustic concert at the base camp of Mount Everest and a finale concert in Kathmandu, Nepal. The trek and performances are the centerpiece of a series of events benefiting cancer charity Love Hope Strength Foundation, co-founded by Alarm frontman...  Read More »

April 5th, 2007
Freeholder Deborah Scanlon, Union County Manager George W. Devanny and Deputy County Manager M. Elizabeth Genievich will join the Love Hope Strength Foundation’s worldwide efforts to fight cancer on April 16 at the Empire State Building in New York City.

The Foundation has invited a bevy of rock starts, celebrities and elected officials to climb 1,576 stairs to the top of the building as part of its fundraising efforts....  Read More »

April 16th, 2007
Joining two-dozen other participants, members of the Alarm, the Stray Cats, English Beat and the Cult made their way up the 1.576 steps of the Empire State Building in New York this morning.

Upon reaching the top, Mike Peters (the Alarm), Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats), Billy Duffy (the Cult) and Dave Wakeling (English Beat) sat down to record a version of the Alarm’s “Strength”, which is already being mixed...  Read More »

Cancer Survivors Perform Concert on Mount Everest
October 22, 2007
(AP) Katmandu, Nepal A group of cancer survivors and their supporters performed a musical concert on the foothills of Mount Everest to help raise awareness of the disease, which the organizers claimed was the world’s highest concert.

The team trekked to the Kalapathar hill, on the base of the world’s highest mountain, and performed the “Everest Rocks”...  Read More »

ONE ORGANIZATION USES MUSIC TO FIGHT CANCER ON THE GLOBAL STAGE April 2009 Cancer.There, we said it.The World Health Organization predicts that cancer will be the leading killer worldwide by 2010. Next year, that is. So then,
just what are we doing about it on the global level? The
founders of the Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS) asked
that very question before they set their sights on saving lives far and wide. And just how do they...  Read More »