On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Although Hillary was part of Colonel John Hunt’s expedition, when the team had drawn within 300 feet of the summit, Hunt directed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to scale the final 300 feet to the summit. Hillary describes reaching the summit: “A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top.”

Although Hillary is credited as reaching the summit first, neither one would have made it without the assistance of the other. As a matter of fact, without Tenzing, Hillary would not have been there to plant his feet on the summit. Hillary had fallen into a crevasse, and as he was quickly heading for a meeting with the bottom, Tenzing grabbed Hillary’s safety rope, slammed his ice axe into the ice, and tied Hillary’s rope to it.

Colonel Hunt, after the incessant pestering by journalists to declare who was the first of the two to stand on the summit, stated, “They reached it together, as a team.” Just as Hillary stated, “A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top,” he did not credit himself with being the first, but rather declared that the team stood on top.

When the world was young, Dean found Sol. These two dream-weavers punctured their fingertips. From the conjoining of the spilt lifeblood emerged Austinbikes/Revenant. If (like Revenant Records) Austinbikes could, one day, win the bicycling world's equivalent of a Grammy, well that'd be just real nice. In the meantime this team continues to magnetically attract a certain type of bike racer.....how you say......they go to 11!

Founded in 2010-2011, this fledgeling team has quickly grown into THE team to look out for this coming Winter.  Team captain, Rolando Roman, has parlayed his enthusiasm for the sport into a team that takes no Prisoners.  Emerging with the Bronze Medal overall for CX teams in Texas for the 2011 season, these guys and gals are showing us all that bike suffering does not stop for festivus.