Expedition Hope
December1
A new organization is helping to raise funds awareness of mental health issues by climbing the 7 Summits, the highest peaks on each continent.
Expedition Hope was founded by Joe Lawson, a survivor of suicide.
It is great to see more awareness of mental health being promoted by someone with a great idea and the ability to carry it out.
please say more about this expedition and mental health awareness. How can I get involved in my area. I work in NC as a mental health professional. I’m looking for peace minded people who want to make a difference for our folks with mental illness
What is truly depressing is the fact that the Lawson family’s unspeakable tragedy has been so shamelessly used to dupe a major pharmaceutical company and to further Joe Lawson’s egocentric endeavor. Unfortunately, Eli Lilly, a company well known for generous donations to numerous worthy charitable organizations, has been fooled into supporting Lawson’s self-aggrandizing effort. Lawson has long made unsubstantiated and/or deceptive claims about his association with adventure racing in an apparent effort to paint himself as an accomplished outdoor athlete. Undoubtedly these claims were used as the basis for deceiving the Eli Lilly Company into funding his contrived scheme. Climbing the seven summits is a feat reserved for accomplished mountaineers with extensive training and experience. It is inconceivable that a reputable company like Lilly would knowingly fund such an endeavor on the basis of Lawson’s nearly non-existent mountaineering experience and complete lack of any actual athletic accomplishment. I hope that Lilly does more thorough due diligence on the drugs they develop.