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By Sam Kenyon Brian Dickinson reached the

summit of Mount Everest by himself.

The Sherpa who was to accompany him had fallen ill, so Dickinson pushed on to the top of the famed mountain, climbing the final 3,035 feet alone.

As he began his descent, the Snoqualmie man lost his sight — completely.

“As soon as the sun came up, it just fried my corneas,” Dickinson said.

The flood of ultraviolet light at sunrise burned his eyes, a condition known as photokera-titis or snow blindness.

Dickinson, who has lived with his family in Snoqualmie for eight years, tells the story of how he survived the impos-sible in his recent book, “Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest.”

“I was at the top of the world, completely alone, and blind,” he said. “Instead of pan-

icking, I started moving. Just one step in front of the other.”

Dickinson is accustomed to danger. He has summited the highest mountain on every continent. From 1993 to 1999, he was an air rescue swimmer with the Navy.

Dickinson wasn’t part of a climb team when he made his Everest climb in 2011. Tasang, the Sherpa he hired, had become ill and had to remain at the high camp at 26,000 feet. Dickinson had chosen to push on and summit alone.

Anything above 26,000 feet is known as the “Death Zone.” The summit of Mount Everest is 29,035 feet.

“Everything is in slow motion.” Dickinson said. “If you cut your finger, it won’t heal up there. There’s just not enough air. You can’t survive up there long.”

Without sight, Dickinson slowly descended. His eyes were in pain and all he could see was a blinding whiteness. He used the existing rope guides and his

harness to find his way down. At one point, he had to cross what is known as the “Cornice Traverse.”

“It’s about two feet wide and it’s a two-mile drop to the left into Tibet, and a two-mile drop to the right into Nepal,” he said.

Though his situation was dire, he didn’t allow himself to feel too much fear. His Navy training kicked in and he just kept moving, making his way down the mountain.

The lack of sight made progress sluggish. The descent from the summit to high camp should take three hours. Dickinson took seven.

“So, everyone down below just thought the worst had happened,” he said. “There’s a couple hundred bodies still up

The grand opening of the Jeanne Hansen Community Park, a new multipurpose park with a rain garden, large picnic shelter, two playgrounds, tennis court and three sports fields and trails, will be celebrated from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 6 in Snoqualmie.

The party includes a free bar-becue dinner, ice cream truck, face painting, games, bouncy castle and a formal dedication at 5:30 p.m.

The opening commemorates the completion of Snoqualmie Ridge 1 and 2 and honors for-mer Mayor Jeanne Hansen.

Joan Pliego, spokeswoman for the city of Snoqualmie, described Hansen as the “quint-essential public servant.” She served the city for 21 years as a planning commissioner, a City Council member and finally the mayor from 1988 to 1997.

The Snoqualmie Parks Board

recommended naming the park after Hansen and the City Council unanimously approved it.

Funding for the $1.8 mil-lion park new park came from several sources. The city contributed $1 million; the Pulte Group, a homebuild-ing company and one of the sponsors of the grand opening event, donated $650,000; and the Snoqualmie Valley Youth Soccer Association contributed $170,000 to the construction of the third athletic field. The Mount Si Lacrosse Club gave $7,800.

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A zip line, inflatable obstacle course and laser tag will be part of the third annual Adventure Sport Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in North Bend Sept. 6.

The outdoor and fitness-themed activities celebrate the recreational opportunities in the Snoqualmie Valley. Most activities at the Adventure Sport Festival are free.

Participants will also get to cheer for the relay teams finish-ing the North Bend Iron Horse Traverse. The event starts in Snoqualmie Pass, and includes paddling, mountain and road race biking, and running from

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Climbing Mount Everest solo was challenging for Snoqualmie man Brian Dickinson. But the return trip was worse. He couldn’t see due to snow blindness.

BLIND DESCENT

See DESCENT, Page 2

“I was not going to stop, I wouldn’t become another statistic, I just kept moving. Death was not an option.”

— Brian DickinsonSnoqualmie resident

Snoqualmie man had to climb back down Mount Everest alone and snow blind

on Everest.”Moving slowly caused

another problem.As he descended to

27,500 feet, Dickinson reached a well-known plat-form called “The Balcony,” and his oxygen bottle ran out. At that point, he had been climbing for more

than 30 hours.He couldn’t see. He had

no more air. Dickinson dropped to his knees.

“I could’ve very peace-fully, very easily, just closed my eyes and fell asleep and just still be there, be dead on the mountain,” he said. “But I just surrendered. I just prayed at that moment, ‘God, I can’t do this alone. Please help me.’”

He said he felt a surge

of energy through his body. He blindly fumbled around and found another air bottle. He connected his regulator to the new air supply and took five big, deep breaths. Then, he kept going.

“I didn’t over-think it,” he said. “I just put my gear together and kept stumbling down the face of Everest.”

When he reached the high camp, Tasang ran up and hugged him, which startled Dickinson because he couldn’t see the Sherpa approaching. He spent the next 15 hours sleeping in his tent. He wouldn’t regain full vision for a month and a half.

Dickinson has always been religious and his family goes to the Church on the Ridge. His wife JoAnna runs the coun-seling center at the church. Dickinson said he wouldn’t fully appreciate what he had experienced until days later when he had some time to recover.

“The whole time [I] never felt alone, just felt this presence with me,” he said.

“I feel like it was com-pletely a miracle from God.” JoAnna said.

She has seen how the mountain affected her husband.

“I think it changed him in the sense of feeling like a miracle from God and also feeling like he had to tell others about it,” she said.

His story has garnered media attention. The book

was recently published and he has done interview segments with Anderson Cooper on CNN and Fox News. The Weather Channel did a re-enactment of his harrowing experi-ence. At one point, the family had television cam-eras in their living room.

“It was kind of over-whelming,” JoAnna said. “The outpouring of people that it touched in a

positive way was so over-whelming right away that it made me realize that it’s definitely worth putting ourselves out there if it’s going to help someone else. And that’s the whole point.”

The need to share his story with people has become a big part of Dickinson’s life.

Now, along with being a systems engineer for

Cisco, he does motivation-al speaking where he tells his story.

“I feel like I was given a gift and there’s more of a purpose for my life than I realized,” he said.

Dickinson said he thinks about what hap-pened to him every day.

“It’s such an impactful experience,” he said.

Sometimes, when he is speaking onstage about his ordeal, it can still be over-whelming.

“It’s an emotional thing to go through, even three years later,” he said.

His traumatic climb of Everest didn’t scare him away from the mountains. He has climbed several peaks since, sometimes with his family. Last February, Dickinson and his daughter Emily, 10, and son Jordan, 7, and JoAnna all climbed Mount Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia.

In the moments of his blind descent, Dickinson didn’t spend energy con-templating the danger of his situation. He didn’t over-analyze the comfort-ing presence he felt. He didn’t think about how those might be the final moments of his life. He just persevered.

“I was not going to stop. I wouldn’t become another statistic. I just kept mov-ing,” he said. “Death was not an option.”

Sam Kenyon can be reached at sken-yon@snovalleystar.com or on Twitter @samuel_kenyon.

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Brian Dickinson could see the ladder rungs as he went up Mount Everest on May 15, 2011. He traversed the same route coming down when he couldn’t see due to snow blindness.

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Piccola Cellars, a winery that focuses on wine-on-tap, has opened at 112 W. Second St., North Bend.

Hours are from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 2-6 p.m. Sunday.

A grand opening cel-ebration will be Sept. 20.

The winery, which already has a tasting room in Woodinville, recently moved into the old North Bend Fire Station. Rather than remodel the build-ing, the roll-up doors used

by the fire department are rolled up to welcome people when the winery is open.

Piccola is the first winery to open in North Bend. The addition of the tasting room is part of the city’s plan to develop a business core that encour-ages walking.

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totes of its wines along with 1-liter growlers, like the beer industry. Growlers can be purchased and refilled.

Piccola partners with Victor Palencia, an award-winning winemaker from Walla Walla. The winery focuses on waste reduction

with their wine-on-tap program, which eliminates 26 bottles for every small keg that it sells or pours.

The winery owners esti-mate that in the past four years, they have reduced bottle waste by 130,000 bottles.

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Moulton, an actress as well as a singer, has appeared in several shows at Valley Center Stage. For

the benefit, she will be backed by an orchestra as she brings to life Garland’s entertainment career, from movies to stage and radio to television.

Funds raised will be used to produce seven productions for Valley Center Stage’s 2014-2015 Season.

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one else does) they can go to the fair, too.

In the mountains, the deer and elk are at their finest, with antlers dark brown with the pati-na of age and wisdom and those tips white as ivory. Polished. This is the pol-ished time.

We are all at some kind of pinnacle in autumn. We have worked through the heat and now we can plan to ratchet it

back a bit. We can take our skills to the mountains for hunting and fishing, or just discover a new hobby there at the house that will keep hands and mind busy during the cold to come.

The children are off to school, preparing themselves so some-day their autumns will be like this, sweet with fulfillment, honed to a point, seeping with satisfaction the way ours are.

Autumn … come and whisper to us in the morning. I’m almost here. Almost here. Almost here.

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September morn:

Smell of autumn colors our days

In honor of Labor Day this month, the Star will devote the weekly poll to important labor issues: Home chores! Who does the dishes?

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It’s back-to-school time, and you know what that means.We’re not talking about the purchases and chaos. We’re

talking about slowing down and watching out for children, who may not be watching out for you.

State law says you must stop for a school bus that is stopped with its red lights flashing whether it is on your side of the road or not. These buses usually have a stop-sign arm on them, but you might not see it. Likewise, you might not see the children that step off these buses and run to nearby houses or people waiting for them.

In the Snoqualmie Valley School District, 66 buses travel more than 723,000 miles each year across the district that spans more than 400 square miles. The buses provide rides to and from schools and school-related activities to more than 6,500 students.

The speed limit in all school zones is 20 miles per hour, usually from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

While the Valley has no monitoring cameras, the Snoqualmie Police Department that provides service to both North Bend and Snoqualmie, watches traffic closely.

AAA urges drivers to be aware of children and extra cau-tious when backing out of driveways and parking spots in school zones and neighborhoods, especially in the morning and afternoon.

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Eliminate distractions. Sometimes kids dart into the road unexpectedly. Taking your eyes off the road for just two seconds doubles the chance of crashing. Store cell phones out of reach — no texting, calling or emailing while driving.

Come to a complete stop. More than one-third of drivers roll through stop signs in school zones or neighbor-hoods. Always come to a complete stop and check for chil-dren on sidewalks and in crosswalks.

Plan for extra time. With school in session, there are more children walking and riding bicycles on streets and sidewalks. Drive slowly and choose alternate routes to avoid school zones if possible.

Dropping off children at school? Be extra cau-tious. Children dart around and between cars and with so many of us driving SUVs and minivans, our line of sight at the level of a first-grader is limited.

Let’s make going back to school safe for everyone.

It comes to us slowly and delicately, as all beautiful things should. It’s usually in the early morning. We can smell it. We can feel it. That little nip that teases us … autumn. Almost autumn.

Summer is heat and work and sweat and cold drinks of water and swimming and barbe-cues. But autumn is fall … the pinnacle. This is when people have the county and state fairs, because the vegetables and animals are at their peak and ready to show. The heat drove some of us into the house this stifling summer and led us to make quilts, make furniture, can fruit. And now, if they’re good enough (and we know, if no

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By Sam Kenyon The Wildcat boys golf

team will be entering unknown territory in more ways than one this season.

The team will have to adjust to Mount Si High School’s first year in the less-forgiving 4A league in KingCo, according to head coach Brandon Proudfoot.

“I think the competi-tion will be a little bit stiff-er in 4A,” said Proudfoot, who has been the head golf coach for the past five years. “There’s no school that you can look at as being an easy meet for the golf team.”

KingCo 4A is packed with talented teams, and Proudfoot expects four teams specifically to be the most dominant: Skyline, Newport, Eastlake and Redmond.

The adjustment to the

new league will create multiple challenges to the golf team. Not only is the team unfamiliar with the new set of opponents, but it is also unfamiliar with the new set of golf courses.

Each school has a dif-ferent home golf course. Since this is the first year Mount Si has been in this league, that means the team will play away meets on courses it has never played.

“We are playing a whole mix of schools that the kids have never seen before,” Proudfoot said. “It’ll be unique every match. I think that’s going to be the biggest difference for us.”

Learning new courses is par for the course for Mount Si’s new golfers every season, but this year the whole team will play blind. Making it doubly

challenging, several of the other schools’ courses are private, so the Wildcats are not able to practice there ahead of time.

“It’s usually just my freshmen that have to deal with new courses they’ve never seen. Now, we’re going to take a full team to golf courses that no one’s ever played,” Proudfoot said.

Despite the challenge of the tougher new league, Proudfoot said he believes this year’s team has a lot of potential. Last season, two sophomore boys — Alex Nelson and Jimmy Jacobson — advanced to the district tournament. Nelson went on to state, where he finished 18th.

“I think, this year, we’re going to see consider-ably better finishes, even though the league we’re in is a little bit tougher,”

Proudfoot said.Nelson and Jacobson

along with several oth-ers make up a strong corps of returning juniors who, combined with senior leaders like Joe Steenvoorde, have Proudfoot optimistic for the season.

“As a unit, this is prob-ably one of if not the best units that I’ve had in the last five years, so I’m excit-ed to have them,” he said.

One of the strengths of this team is its chemistry. In the offseason and dur-ing the summer many of the players practiced together often.

“This group has put in a massive effort in the sum-mertime,” Proudfoot said.

They have pushed each other to be better. He said junior Collin Anderson elevated his game over the

summer and Proudfoot expects he will be compet-ing for the top-six spot.

“If I was giving out most-improved-in-the-off-season awards, he would get that one,” Proudfoot said.

Because Proudfoot works at the Mount Si Golf Course, he watched his team come in and practice as a group many times over the summer.

“There’ll be times when one of them makes a tee time and I see half the team out on the tee when I get to work,” he said. “They’re constantly improving off of each other, pushing each other farther.

“That’s kind of the Holy Grail of golf coaching, get-ting kids that will get out there and push each other outside of your practice

time.”When the time comes,

Proudfoot thinks the team has a shot at sending all six tournament players to districts and beyond. Apart from Steenvoorde, Mount Si has two other return-ing seniors, Mac Smith and Brady Brickman, who bring veteran leadership. Then, there are the groups of really strong juniors.

“This group of juniors is one of the strongest single classes I’ve seen come through in my five years, if not hands down the strongest class,” Proudfoot said.

His only question is are they ready to dominate this season, or do they require another year of development?

“I’m hoping for this year,” he said. “But we’ll see how it plays out.”

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Ready for some football?Players from all football teams at Mount Si High School saw action in the annual Scarlet and Gray Game Aug. 29. The scramble at the goal line was successful — the white team scored a touchdown. The Wildcats will host Woodinville at 7 p.m. Sept. 5 in the season opener.

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q Friends of the North Bend Library Meeting, 7 p.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554

q ‘Judy Sings Judy,’ Valley Center Stage Fundraiser Gala, 7 p.m., Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend, 292-9307

q Volunteers needed, make a dif-ference in your com-munity, wide range of options avail-able, Snoqualmie Valley YMCA, 35018 S.E. Ridge St., Snoqualmie, email volunteersnoq@seattleymca.org for more information or go to http://bit.ly/1t85VAL for a list of volunteer oppor-tunities

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q Grandparents Grand Excursion, celebrate National Grandparents Day, ride free with pay-ing grandchild, trains depart at 12:01 p.m. from the Snoqualmie Depot, 38625 S.E. King St., and 12:31 p.m. North Bend Depot, 205 McClellan St., roundtrip fares $10/kids, $18/adults $15/seniors

q Danny Kolke Trio, 6 p.m., Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend, 292-9307 q Moonlight Festival, 7 p.m., The Ballroom at Snoqualmie Casino, 37500 S.E. North Bend Way, Snoqualmie, $20-30, www.snocasino.com

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q Adventure Sport Festival and North Bend Iron Horse Traverse, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., downtown North Bend, northbendwa.gov and www.recre-ationnorthwest.org

q Subway Beast Mode Challenge Race, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Meadowbrook Farm, 1711 Boalch Ave., North Bend, 831-1900, $45-85

q Big Star Studios, 5-9 p.m., Finaghty’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, 7726 Center Blvd., No. 110, Snoqualmie, www.finaghtys.com

q Black Dog, 8 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie, 831-3647

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q Signature Tap Water Tours, 10:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Cedar River Watershed Education Center, 19901 Cedar Falls Road S.E., http://bit.ly/JZfCAj, $10/adults, $5/youths and seniors

q Vern Sielert Dektet, 7 p.m., Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, 292-9307

q Garrett and the Sheriffs, 8 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., 831-3647

q Friday Family Fun Night with Alberto Reyes and band, 6:30-8 p.m., Snoqualmie Valley YMCA, 35018 S.E. Ridge St., 256-3115

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q Resume and Cover Letter Workshop, 12:30 p.m., North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., 888-0554

q Future Jazz Heads, 5 p.m., Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, 292-9307

q Ideal Protein Restart Workshop with Dr. Scott, 6:30 p.m., Park Street Healing Arts, 318 E. Park St., North Bend, RSVP at 888-4170

q Jazz Heads, 7 p.m., Boxley’s, 101 W. North Bend Way, North Bend, 292-9307

q Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie, 831-3647

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q ‘Tee Off for Valley Health’ golf tournament, 1:30 p.m. shot gun start, includes happy hour and silent auction, Blue Heron Golf Course, 1819 W. Snoqualmie Road, Carnation, regis-ter at http://bit.ly/VHoDmY

q Farmer’s Market, with concert by Jaspar Lepak, folk Americana music, 4-8 p.m., Si View Park, 420 S.E. Orchard Drive, North Bend, www.siviewpark.org

q Game Night, 4-9 p.m., Snoqualmie Falls Brewery and Taproom, 8032 Falls Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie, 831-2357

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A rare opportunity in the heart of beautiful Eastern Washington wine country! The Seattle Times seeks an energetic and thoughtful Publisher for its affiliate paper, the Walla Walla Union‑Bulletin.

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