The People Behind This Amazing Work

Everest 2021 Manager

Alannah is a certified event manager and life coach. She is the creator of Addapea Productions and Addapea Coaching, where empowerment and advocacy are the focus. Alannah is passionate about community support and environmental conservation. She believes everyone has the power to create an amazing life, and is happy to help Leo achieve his dreams through the Everest 2021 campaign.  

Film and Production Team

Mikey is a photographer and videographer from Alberta, Canada who has been working behind the lens for six years and has been involved in the CrossFit space for over four years.  He is a household name to many athletes and gyms all over Canada, to whom he provides media services, social media content, and shoots at local competitions where he connects with athletes by capturing exceptional performances and special moments that happen on the comp floor.  Mikey was invited by the CanWest CrossFit Championship to shoot at the 2019 CrossFit Games, where he aimed to showcase Canadian talent across the Masters, Teens and Individual competitions. 

When he is not working in the functional fitness space, Mikey lends his creativity to sports like mountain biking, ski racing, dance, yoga etc; anything that allows him to capture movement.  He takes on athlete shoots and creates promotional content for a number of Canadian businesses in the fitness community. 

Outside of photography, Mikey is an aspiring drone pilot, a rope access instructor, and runs the Rope Access and Climbing Podcast/YouTube channel. 

Film and Production Team

Mike is a videographer, editor, filmmaker and drone pilot. He has his pilot certificate for basic operations through Civil Aviation Services Transport Canada. Mike's background is Project Manager with over 10 years of project coordination and field experience. Michael demonstrates a positive attitude and commitment to getting the job done. He is dedicated to fulfilling project requirements with a focus on professionalism, safety and quality of results. 

Marketing Team

Khalid is one of our social media influencers, editor and graphic designer. He received his bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 2018, and his master's degree in data sciences in 2020. At the age of 16, he started the social act, he volunteered in several organizations and associations in Morocco. he is dynamic, creative, a mature team worker and adapts to all difficult situations. 

The main reason why khalid joined everest is that he've been always fascinated by the resiliency of the human nature, and how some people's hope and love towards life give them some sort of a "supernatural" power. And what really drove him into thinking of being a part of this volunteering experience is the inspiring story of the founder of everest himself, whom khalid considers one of those kind of people.