Downeast Magazine Article - September 2008
Jeff Clapp’s family has been vacationing in Brunswick since 1929 when his great-grandfather built a family camp here on Princess Point. The ecological artist—who transforms trashed oxygen canisters from Mount Everest into inspirational bells...
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National Geographic TOGA Award Finalist - August 2008
The TOGAs, will recognize industry manufacturers, retailers, non-profits, and individuals who are
actively promoting geographic awareness through creative programs, products, and services. If you
or your organization has developed a program that encourages outdoor participation, environmental
stewardship, geographic awareness or knowledge about the world around us.
National Geographic TOGA Award
The Bells From Everest have been selected as a finalist for the National Geographic TOGA Award 08/08/2008.
We are up against The North Face and Patagonia. Wow! Jeff will be attending the event.
We are all winners here. Each company doing its part to promote geographic awareness and encouraging
outdoor participation.
Turning Everest’s Trash Into Art - August 2008
Turning Everest’s Trash Into Art
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Donny Deutsch - May 2008
Maine artist turns Everest's trash into treasures.
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UTube Video May 2008
Maine artist turns Everest's trash into treasures.
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Nashua Telegraph July 2008
WANTED: Trashy photo correspondents to save the earth
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TRAIL July 2007
"On a mission to save the planet’s highest mountain from becoming a rubbish tip, sculptor Jeff Clapp makes old cylinders into bells and bowls, and the left-over aluminum swizzles become ornaments."
foxnews.com January 16, 2007
"Inspired by a documentary about Everest's rubbish, Clapp traveled to Nepal and brought a load of discarded oxygen bottles back in 2004.
He has created a business of transforming those banged-up, aluminum containers into gleaming bells, bowls and ornaments with a goal of inspiring people to do more to clean up the environment in their own small ways, just as he has."
USAtoday.com January 15, 2007
"Clapp, an artist, chef and concerned father, was inspired to go to Nepal by a National Geographic documentary about trash on Everest, which some called "the world's highest junkyard." He obtained 132 cylinders from the Nepal Mountaineering Association for $7,000. It cost nearly that much to ship them back to Maine.
Back at home in Brunswick, he works on the canisters in a basement workshop where the floor is littered with piles of aluminum shavings."
Times Record July 25, 2006
"Bells from Everest capture the attention of buying public…the story of the tanks’ polished counterparts, has stolen the attention of art collectors."
Boston.com December 2006
Maine artist turns Everest's trash into treasures.
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Backpacker Magazine April 2005
"Buy one and breathe easier about the mess on the roof of the world"
Telluride Watch April 2005
Artist breathes new life into oxygen cylinders left on Everest"
American Alpine News Spring 2005
"I saw a National Geographic documentary about mountaineering trash left on Mount Everest, everything clicked; I needed cylinders and Nepal had them"
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