 While attending SDSU, Haver decided that he wanted to climb and ski the [[Seven Summits]], the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents, before he was 30.He first climbed [[Mount Everest]] in 1989 at the age of 23 with the International Goodwill Expedition.While on the expedition, he met Mike McDowell, a founding partner of [[Quark Expeditions]] and other adventure travel enterprises.