Former NFL Player uses technology to document climb on Kilimanjaro

On June 14th, 2013 Mark Pattison a former NFL player for the Raiders and Saints successfully climbed Mt Kilimanjaro's 19,333 peak in Tanzania, Africa.  Sponsored by GoPro, Mark filmed his journey from start to finish to capture both the culture and physical nature of the climb.

Mark used many technology gadgets to film the epic trip.  GoPro provided the Hero 3 Black edition which is super small, easy to carry and has incredible high video and camera resolution.  To charge up the camera, Mark purchased a solar power monkey which he was able to hang on his backpack while hiking since there are two panels that hang down and capture the suns rays.  Once all the content was captured, Mark downloaded to a I-pad Mini which was light to carry and served as a great source to view different aspects of the trip.

Once back in Santa Monica, Mark's daughter Emilia put all the footage together to come up with a 3 minute story capturing the essence of the climb and then published to You Tube where over 600 people viewed the story within 3 days.  The power of video!

Mark is trying to become the first NFL player to climb all 7 summits which are the tallest peaks on each continent.  Next up is Aconcagua in January 2014.