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Thrilling Family Adventure at Disney's Animal Kingdom
to Bring the Legend of Yeti to Life
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EXPEDITION EVEREST DISNEY'S NEXT PEAK OF EXCITEMENT -- The fearsome legend of the yeti will come to life in a new thrill attraction -- Expedition Everest -- at Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The high-speed adventure will open in 2006 in the Asia section of the theme park.
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Disney Readies Expedition Everest
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Legend holds that high in the Himalayan Mountains lives an enormous creature that fiercely guards the route to Mount Everest.
Now that legend comes dramatically to life at Disney's Animal Kingdom in a new high-speed train adventure that combines coaster-like thrills with the excitement of a close encounter of the hairy kind.
Walt Disney World guests will discover for themselves the fearsome legend of the yeti when Expedition Everest opens in 2006 at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park.
"Expedition Everest adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom," said Joe Rohde, executive designer at Walt Disney Imagineering and lead designer of the park. "It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti."
In Expedition Everest, guests board an old mountain railway destined for the foot of Mount Everest. The train rolls through thick bamboo forests, past thundering waterfalls, along shimmering glacier fields and climbs higher and higher through the snow-capped peaks.
But suddenly the track ends in a gnarled mass of twisted metal and the thrills intensify as the train races both forward and backward through mountain caverns and icy canyons and guests head for an inevitable face-to-muzzle showdown with the mysterious yeti -- known to some as the abominable snowman.
At nearly 200 feet high, Expedition Everest will be located in the Asia section of the theme park. Expedition Everest will feature Disney's FASTPASS -- offered at no charge to park guests -- designed to reduce wait times at popular attractions in all four Walt Disney World theme parks.
Expedition Everest debuts during the 18-month "Happiest Celebration on Earth." Beginning May 5, 2005, the jubilee honors 50 years of Disney theme parks and commemorates the 1955 opening of Disneyland.
Disney's Animal Kingdom is a 500-acre theme park where the exciting worlds of wild and whimsical creatures come to life on an authentic African safari, in an Asian rain forest, on a trip back in time to the age of the dinosaurs and in other attractions and shows brimming with stories about animals and encounters with favorite Disney characters.
Walt Disney Company Press Release
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Massive Mountain -- A mountain range is on the horizon at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park as construction continues on Expedition Everest, a family thrill coaster opening at Walt Disney World Resort in 2006. Soaring nearly 200-feet-tall, Expedition Everest will take guests on an adventure through the Himalayas for a close encounter with a mysterious yeti. Expedition Everest will open during the 18-month-long global "Happiest Celebration on Earth" that begins May 5, 2005.
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