Cops on Top 1999 Denali Expedition

THE EXPEDITION:

Expedition Updates
Progress reports transmitted
from the mountain

Expedition Photos
Updated 3 January 2000

Support from officers of the
Anchorage Police Dept.

IN THE NEWS:
The Daily News (Farmington, NM)
March 29, 1999 Article
May 31, 1999 Article
June 15, 1999 Article
June 17, 1999 Article
June 22, 1999 Article
June 23,1999 Article
June 24,1999 Article
July 28,1999 Article

Dutch Newspaper

LINKS:
In Memory of
Officer Dale Claxton

Suspects Still at Large
*Updated 5 November 1999

Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc
(COPS)

Farmington Police Department

National Weather Service
forecast for Denali Park
Includes conditions at 7,000ft, 14,000ft, and above 17,000ft

Landgraafse Alpine Club
(The Netherlands)

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1999 Dutch & American Police

Denali Expedition

Five climbers launched a June 1999 expedition to reach the summit of Denali. Denali is the native name for the 20,320 foot (6,194m) Mount McKinley, North America's highest peak.

The international team consists of three Americans and three Dutch members. They are not glamorous professional explorers whose names and faces you'd recognize from adventure documentaries and magazine articles. Instead, the climbers are three police officers, a firefighter and a steel worker who share the same dream to challenge themselves in a world-class mountaineering experience.

The Expedition Team:
(click names below for team member biographies)

Keith McPheeters
New Mexico, USA Expedition Leader

Henk Bezema
The Netherlands Expedition Lead Climber

Kent O'Donnell
New Mexico, USA Medical Technician/Climber

Paul Kern
The Netherlands Climber

Frank Stevelmans
The Netherlands Climber

Steve Evans
Utah, USA Expedition Manager

Keith McPheeters plans this to be the first in what will become annual expeditions dedicated to police officers killed in the line of duty. The 1999 Denali Expedition is in honor of Cortez, Colorado Police Officer Dale Claxton, shot and killed on May 29, 1998 following a routine traffic stop. The incident resulted in a massive search for the three perpetrators who fled into the remote "four corners" border area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. McPheeters was a member of a Farmington, New Mexico Police SWAT team assisting in the search.

The Cortez Police Department presented a memorial plaque to the expedition team in honor of Officer Dale Claxton. The team placed this tribute on Denali.

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