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From the Field
Coverage of the expeditions, the people, and the work behind them.
KCAL News
This story shines a spotlight on what this center means for our heroes—a space for healing, recovery, and reconnection in the peaceful embrace of nature. With your continued support, we’re creating a legacy of wellness and community for veterans across the country.
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ABC7
We’re on a bold mission to build California’s first-ever veteran retreat center and KABC7 is helping us get the word out! In this special segment, KABC7 Salutes shines a light on our vision to create a place of strength, healing, and resilience for our nation’s heroes.
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Claremont Courier
Tucked into one of Mt. Baldy’s craggy nooks is Ice House Canyon, featuring a trail renowned among avid hikers and mountaineers; it’s also home to the dilapidated Ice House Canyon Resort.
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FORBES
Wounded Warriors to get New Mountain Cabins at Veteran Retreat Center
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PBR.COM
USMC Corporal Brad Ivanchan shows us that no mountain, no challenge in life, is too high or difficult to stop us when we unleash our inner cowboy grit and resiliency.
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THE HEROES PROJECT
Chris Evans recorded this motivational message to encourage wounded veteran Marisa as she trains for her climb with The Heroes Project.
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THE HEROES PROJECT
You can contribute to Dean Winters' wish on our website. Source: THE HEROES PROJECT
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LOS ANDES
A look at how the expedition team prepared, trained, and made it to the top together.
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CNN
With the Heroes Project, veterans who have lost limbs learn how to climb mountains. CNN's Brooke Baldwin joined the project in Joshua Tree National Park.
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OUTSIDE
After a near-fatal motorcycle accident, Hells Angel Tim Medvetz recovered by climbing the world's tallest mountain. Now he's taking wounded veterans on the same journey.
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NBC San Diego
Marine Staff Sergeant Mark Zambon will be traveling to Africa to climb its highest peaks on Friday. NBC 7 reporter Greg Bledsoe talks with Zambon about his inspiring story.
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UFC ON FOX
On a special Sunday edition of The Fighter and The Kid, ex-Hells Angel Tim Medvetz and United States marine Charlie Linville join Brendan Schaub in the studio to talk about 'The Heroes Project'.
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CBS NEWS
We end this Memorial Day with a Marine's remarkable journey - one which nearly ended on a minefield in Afghanistan. Instead, he became the first veteran wounded in combat to summit Mt. Everest. Jericka Duncan has more.
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ABC NEWS
Staff Sgt. Charlie Linville, 30, climbed the 29,029-foot summit of the highest mountain on earth with a prosthetic leg after being involved in a blast in Afghanistan in 2011 that left him with serious injuries to his right foot and hand.
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Sports Illustrated
Charlie Linville, a Marine who lost the lower part of his right leg when he stepped on an unexploded bomb in Afghanistan, became the first combat amputee to summit Everest.
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GQ
A bomb blast takes your legs and you've got a few options: You can sit on the couch for the rest of your days (who would blame you?), or you can struggle to walk again. But Julian Torres, he set his sights way higher. He decided to scale Mount Kilimanjaro. Davy Rothbart tried to keep up.
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CBS
A former Marine who lost part of his leg in Afghanistan arrived in Tibet Monday for a new and dangerous challenge. Charlie Linville hopes to be the first combat amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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PEOPLE MAGAZINE
"If one veteran sees what we've done and gets up off the couch and decides to change his life, then it will all be worth it," Charlie Linville tells PEOPLE
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CNN
Retired USMC Sgt. Julian Torres and Heroes Project founder Tim Medvetz talk to CNN's Brooke Baldwin from the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro to recap their journey.
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LA Times
The next time a burly man with a heavy beard and a gruff-looking exterior pulls next to you on his loud motorcycle, repress the negative thoughts and think of Tim Medvetz.
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EDDIE BAUER
The Heroes Project shifts mission to helping Nepal after quake.
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ABC - EYEWITNESS NEWS
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Charlie Linville lost his leg in an improvised explosive device attack in Afghanistan, but that won't stop him from climbing Mount Everest.
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EQUINOX
How founder Tim Medvetz's near-deadly accident changed the lives of wounded veterans forever.
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CBS 60 MINUTES
Wounded veterans are using their hearts and minds to summit some of the world's tallest mountains and overcome the disabilities war has dealt them.
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CBS Morning News
The former Hells Angel set a goal not only to walk but to climb Mount Everest. Along the way, he found a new mission: turning disaster into determination for wounded veterans.
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CBS 60 MINUTES OVERTIME
With The Heroes Project, veterans who have lost limbs learn how to climb mountains. CNN's Brooke Baldwin joined the project in Joshua Tree National Park.
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BUSINESS WIRE
The Heroes Project and Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) have partnered to support USMC Staff Sergeant Charlie Linville (retired), a veteran who is disabled, as he climbs to the peak of Mt. Everest, the world's highest mountain. His journey begins this week.
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ESPN
Tim's undaunting search for fallen veterans, and one-on-one mountain training and fundraising, are quite breathtaking to hear about.
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ABC
Veteran finds inspiration and support from an unlikely source- former nightclub bouncer and former member of the Hells Angels.
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Article
A look at how the expedition team prepared, trained, and made it to the top together.
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— JJ Sailer, Executive Director, THE HEROES PROJECT
From hospital bed to summit. We take injured U.S. military veterans from recovery to the mountain — and honor every step between.
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Nature does what hospitals can't. From Everest to Denali to the peaks of California, our heroes push past their limits and discover that the strength they earned in service never left them.
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