BEAN AND HELEN BOWERS FUNDRAISER  -  APRIL 28, 2011  -  BOULDER, COLORADO

COME! The Bean Fever Fundraiser is on Thursday, April 28, at AVERY BREWING, 5757 Arapahoe Ave. Suite A1, Boulder, Colorado 80303. It’s in their Barrel Room and starts at 6:30 p.m.

Don't know Bean? So what! If you know that you love life, live life, and want to help (no matter how big or small), then please come.

From Bean’s friends:

Vibrant, burly, funny, strong, sharp, genuine. A true hardman, a tough bastard with a kind heart, loyal, never fake, a tell-it-like-it-is person. The real deal. He walks on a nearly fused ankle and climbs and skis harder than most of us ever will, never making excuses and always ready to give his best. The sort of person you want on your side when the shit hits the fan.

We all know people like Bean, and we love them, they inspire us; they’re reflections of everything real in a too-often bullshit world. We like to think of them as invincible—hell, Bean survived a 100-foot whipper from the summit of Torre Egger in 2005, climbing with Jonny Copp and Josh Wharton. Bruised his back, but otherwise fine. A year later while approaching Fitz Roy’s north pillar in the dark, Bean slipped and pitched 50 feet on broken mixed terrain. He bounced, cursed, dusted himself off and he and Josh made the first free and first one-day ascent of the 4,000-foot Casarotto route. A day after descending, Bean returned to Fitz Roy with Helen and they swapped leads on a one-day ascent of the Franco-Argentine route for Helen’s first Patagonian summit.

Bean always seemed to have more than nine lives, has climbed scores of big routes around the world, and guided others on the adventures of their lifetimes.  But, damn it, nobody is invincible.   Around Christmas he severely broke his femur backcountry skiing.  In early January he woke in the middle of the night vomiting, and with crippling headaches. Hours later he was in brain surgery. Tumors racked his body. Out of nowhere, no symptoms, Bean had stage 4 cancer.

Please check-out the website here set-up to support Bean and Helen Bowers in their fight with cancer.