EVEREST
- The hackathonAugust 29 to 30, 2026 · San Francisco
Preparing the tech the robot will use
- The expeditionSeptember 5 to October 20, 2026
Bringing an actual robot to the Everest summit
THE FIRST ROBOT TO BE ON MOUNT EVEREST
Pemba already summited the Chimborazo in Ecuador (6,263m)
on June 5, 2026, with the same team that will help it
reach the highest point on Earth.
The Chimborazo expedition was the first time
a humanoid reached that altitude, on the summit
furthest from the centre of the Earth.
50M+views, all organic
40+news outlets ran the story
32countries worldwide
Making sure it’s getting to the top.
Ossy FreireLed the team on Chimborazo, the only guide ever to summit alongside the robot; an IFMGA-certified guide with four Everest summits, one without oxygen.
Nima Rinji SherpaThe youngest person ever to climb all fourteen 8,000-metre peaks, at eighteen.
Tashi Lakpa SherpaCEO of 14 Peaks Expedition, and the youngest to summit Everest without oxygen, at nineteen.
Pablo Berlanga BoemoreLeft Polytechnique to work with WWF around the world; only person to have operated robots above 5,000 m.
Titania FreireHead of Conservation; grew up across the Amazon and the Galápagos, and spoke at the UN on Indigenous rights.
It is being filmed.
Filmed by 14 Peaks Production, behind the Netflix hit.
Robot Everest carries the first ever livestream from the summit of Everest, on the same technology.
50M+views on Netflix in week one
189days to climb all fourteen peaks
The hackathon.
San Francisco, August 29 to 30, 2026.
Over two days, teams tackle the real engineering problems of extreme-altitude robotics: onboard inference without a cloud connection, locomotion on ice and mixed terrain, hardware that survives −40°C and 300 km/h winds, and a comms link that works when the only thing overhead is a satellite.
This isn't a demo weekend. The stack built here goes on the actual machine. The team that ships the best solution joins the expedition.
Register for EventWhat one sponsorship buys.
One sponsorship covers the hackathon and the expedition together.
Your brand on the expedition
- Your logo on the clothing, tents and flags
- Your logo on the build floor and every team bench
- You are the only company from your industry involved
Your technology in use
- Your hardware, API or model in builders' hands for two days
- Your technology running in the expedition stack
- The right to say your product was tested on Everest
Your brand in the coverage
- The event carries your name: presented by you
- Joint press releases to global outlets
- Your brand across X, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn
- Sponsorship of the live broadcast during the summit push
Content you keep
- The right to use the photography and film in your own advertising
- Behind-the-scenes footage featuring your products
- A report afterwards with the reach and coverage numbers
Your people in the room
- You open the weekend with a talk and set the problem
- You watch engineers build against your stack under pressure
- Live video calls from the mountain to your team or your clients
Your brand in the documentary
- Title sponsorship of the film
- Your product placed within the story
- Opening and closing credits, and the trailer
- Tickets to the premiere
What it costs.
Three tiers, each one adding to the last. Every tier covers both the hackathon and the expedition.
- Bronze$30,000
- Your logo on the livestream overlay and all social content
- Documentary end credits
- The expedition content library, to use on your own channels
- Branded track presence at the San Francisco hackathon
- One expedition ticket to Base Camp
- An impact report afterwards: views, press, reach
- Silver$60,000
- Your logo on the summit jacket
- Product placement inside the film
- A branded one-minute segment in the documentary
- A dedicated branded segment across the expedition socials
- A second expedition ticket
- Gold$120,000
- Prime jacket placement, chest or shoulder
- A brand story segment and founder interview in the film
- One of the five incubated project slots: test or market your product on Everest, we run it
- Joint press release, and inclusion in all media outreach
- Category exclusivity within the tier
- Priority upgrade to the VIP packages on both tickets