With his 15 years experience with the National Guard, Eric brings a can-do attitude to any assignment given to him. A native of Louisiana, Eric is going to Nepal to assist with the "Everyone has an Everest" Expedition 2001's communication equipment. That means the telephone and video from the mountain will be bounced off a nearby peak, down to Base Camp, where it will be bounced up to an orbiting satellite and back to North America where it can be downloaded to the Internet and, specifically STEP!
