Stars Rock Everest at ‘highest gig’

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, Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats, Cy Curnin and Jamie West of the Fixx and Glen Tillbrook and Nick Harper of Squeeze. The group of more than 30 trekked to their performance site at Kalapathar hill, near the base camp used by mountaineers scaling Everest. “Today she (Everest) allowed our Love Hope Strength team to look at her charms from 18,540 ft and to share with her some of our humble songs and to break the record for the world’s highest concert on land,” said Peters, a former cancer patient. Before leaving for the mountain, organizers said money raised from the performance would be used to buy equipment for the Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital near Kathmandu. Colorado-based Love Hope Strength Foundation campaigns for better cancer treatment.