Current Project
The Longest Climb Foundation (LCF) is pleased to announce that it will be returning to Vietnam in September 2026 to lead another group of U.S. military veterans on a powerful journey of peace, healing, and reconciliation.
Working in conjunction with the Department of Defense and the Vietnamese Wartime Accounting Initiative, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, and researchers from Texas Tech University, the LCF will guide former paratroopers from the U.S. Army’s storied 101st Airborne Division back to Southeast Asia to revisit old battlefields, engage with former Vietnamese adversaries, and better come to terms with their own service in uniform.
Moving forward from the Vietnam War has never meant forgetting the past as much honoring those lost and collectively learning from the experience, and the LCF has witnessed the life-changing power of these trips in previous journeys back in May 2019 and September 2024.
We look forward to providing more of the same. More details to come.
Past Projects
Sgt. Rodney M. Davis (USMC)
A Return to the Que Son Valley - September 2024
In September 2024, The Longest Climb Foundation and with the family members returned to the battlefield where Sgt. Rodney Davis made the ultimate sacrifice and would ultimately receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
“I often reflect on our trip. It was a life-changing experience.” – Nicky Davis, the oldest of two infant daughters of Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Rodney M. Davis (USMC) at the time of his death on Sept. 6, 1967, after joining The LCF on a September 2024 trip to Vietnam that included remembering and honoring her father at the very spot where he joined the eternal pantheon of American heroes exactly 57 years earlier.
Return to Hamburger Hill
May 2019
The Longest Climb Foundation began with the original return trip, the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Hamburger Hill in 2019. The first cohort consisted of active-duty Soldiers, Veterans from both the U.S. and Vietnamese sides of the battle along with support staff from the US Embassy in Vietnam as well as family members of each Veteran, guides, and interpreters. Over the course of the week in Vietnam, the U.S. and Vietnamese Veterans bonded and by the time of the climb back up Hill 937 (Hamburger Hill) and culminating events, all were walking hand in hand achieving an unprecedented level of long sought peace and reconciliation and the Longest Climb Foundation was born.
