Musician Santigold, who took part in the SOTSK Mount Kilimanjaro climb with Isabel in 2010, mentioned Isabel in a recent interview with Aussie magazine/website NWOnline.com – she had some very nice things to say about Izzy!

Are you going to catch up anyone while you’re here?
Well, I have one really good friend from Australia who I love – you know Isabel Lucas? We climbed Kilimanjaro together.

We were going to ask you about that – it was for charity?
Yeah, we shared a tent. It was to raise awareness about clean water and we went with Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, a lot of people. And then we filmed a documentary. But Isabel was my tent mate, and I love her. She’s the best girl.

What was she like?
She is the sweetest, most wonderful tree-hugging lady and I love her. She could totally get down and talk shit and be hilarious. And she was a trouper – she got food poisoning on the last climbing day, but she made it to the top anyway. But it’s sad, she left Australia a couple of days before I arrived.

- NWOnline.com

A week or so ago I mentioned that I had lots of appearance HQs to add for you, and since I posted that update I’ve been adding them all to the Gallery, along with a ton of other photos that I had on my computer waiting to be uploaded. These photos include appearance HQs, candid HQs, photoshoots, charity-related HQs, Home & Away pics and more. Some are HQ replacements of photos we already had, and some are completely new to the site. They’re all over the place, so I won’t list every single album. Just browse through the Last Uploads page up til page 9 to see all the new additions since the last big gallery update.

This update also includes photos from Izzy’s Mount Kilimanjaro climb last year – I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to add these, but we now do have photos from the climb as well as related screencaps. Make sure you check out our exclusive screencaps from the full MTV Documentary too, which were posted about a week or so ago.

That’s all the photos I have on my computer for now! I have some media to add for you next, and I will also be working on completing our content soon too. And when I get my scanner fixed you can look forward to a ton of magazine scans, including some great old Home & Away era stuff! And not forgetting lots more Home & Away screencaps.

• Last uploads

Almost 10 months after I added the first set, I have now added the 2nd set of screencaps from the Summit On The Summit Kilimanjaro documentary that aired on MTV last year! Very sorry for the delay on this 2nd batch – I completely forgot I hadn’t finished them! In this 2nd batch of caps we see the climbers head for the Summit, and how physically demanding it is. Isabel was apparently very faint quite close to the top, and you can see how she’s being propped up by some of the others. Makes her achievement of getting to the top even more admirable! It really is a fascinating documentary. I will upload it to our Video section once I start on that in the near future.

• MTV’s Summit On The Summit: Kilimanjaro Documentary – Screencaptures x 116 more

As reported, the MTV documentary of the SOTSK climb aired on Sunday night, and thanks to the awesome Kimberly we have exclusive videos of the show! Today I have added screencaps from the 1st half of the show, and the 2nd batch will follow over the weekend. So far the documentary is really interesting – it’s fascinating seeing the landscape of Mt Kili and seeing how they all cope and are affected by the climb, and quite inspiring to hear them talk about what they’re doing and how passionate they are about it. Plus, there’s the sweetest quote about Isabel from Kenna:

“Isabel Lucas is like family to me. Even though she’s been in some big action movies she’s really a gentle soul, who’s totally in touch with herself and nature.” – Kenna

Videos will be added when our Video section is started.

The Pacific also aired on Sunday night, but I don’t think Isabel appeared in this episode. And from the sounds of this article, it seems she may only appear in the 3rd episode, or at least, the majority of her part is in that episode. I’ll keep you posted…

• MTV’s Summit On The Summit: Kilimanjaro Documentary – Screencaptures x182 (1st batch)

Tonight is a TV feast for Isabel fans in the US! The Pacific and the Summit On The Summit documentary both air tonight. Make sure you set your TIVO/DVD recorder for these two big TV events in Isabel’s career.

The Pacific
On HBO at 9pm
- www.hbo.com/the-pacific

Summit On The Summit Documentary
On MTV at 9pm
- www.mtv.com/shows/summit_on_the_summit
- www.summitonthesummit.com

Emile mentioned Isabel a few times in this new interview with Vanity Fair about the Mt Kilimanjaro climb. The mentions of Isabel are below, and you can read the full interview with him here.

Mike Ryan: After the initial adrenaline rush of the idea of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro wore off, was there ever a moment in the weeks leading up where you thought, “Holy shit, I actually have to climb Mount Kilimanjaro”?

Emile Hirsch: Yeah. The way I got involved is that I was friends with Isabel Lucas, and I called her when she was working on a movie in Michigan. She told me all about this climb. I said, “Wow, that sounds amazing.” Isabel’s very sweet: she didn’t make climbing Kilimanjaro sound very scary or hard. And I didn’t actually know that much about Kilimanjaro up to that point. So it sounded like this almost glorified hippie hike. It could have been a hill to me for all I knew at that exact moment.

So Kenna called me and talked to me about it. I had a series of conversations with him. Each time I asked him more about it, is started to sound like a much harder endeavor. When I found out it is 19,340 feet and that Mount McKinley was just a couple of hundred feet higher, that really blew my mind. I’d seen Mount McKinley when I was in Alaska shooting Into the Wild. You could see McKinley from about 100 miles away, and it was huge. And I always wanted to climb McKinley. We’d be going to set and I’d be looking at it, wanting to run over there and climb it. This was an opportunity to make up for missing out on McKinley.

In doing research for this interview, I spoke to a friend who climbed Kilimanjaro a couple of years ago. I now know the definition of “scree” [broken rock fragments on mountain cliffs]…

Yeah! I “screed” all the way down. Once I actually got to the summit, I had this realization that I was running pretty low on water because I had given Isabel a good amount of my water—she was really in bad shape and really thirsty and had already finished all of hers. She ended up drinking quite a bit of it. So I had a near empty water supply and realizing I had about four miles of really, really steep terrain and scree. And I had to just kind of scree down the mountain really fast. It became fun, it became like skiing.

In 2005, Kenna — who had long heard stories of the majesty and mystery of Mt. Kilimanjaro from his father — decided to climb the peak. He made it to Kosovo Camp, a clearing located some 16,000 feet above sea level (and still 3,000 feet from the summit), and then pushed onward toward the top of the mountain. He didn’t make it.

Five years later, he decided to make the trek again, this time in the hope of calling attention to the global clean-water crisis. Both the trip and the cause were personal to Kenna, because when his father was a child in Ethiopia, he lost his brother and friends to water-borne diseases and, as he put it, “I could have been one of those kids.”

So, in January, with a crew of nearly 300 backing him up — including fellow musicians Lupe Fiasco and Santigold, actors Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch and Isabel Lucas, plus a team of scientists, United Nations ambassadors and skilled guides — he headed back up the mountain. (His friend Justin Timberlake intended to join the trek but couldn’t due to scheduling conflicts; Justin introduces the film.) And their trip is documented in “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro,” a 90-minute film that premieres Sunday (March 14) at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.

And apart from detailing the group’s massive scaling of Africa’s tallest mountain, the film also contains a symbolic message, one that applies not just to the trek, but to tackling seemingly insurmountable issues like global clean water: that together, we can accomplish great things.

“Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro” doesn’t premiere on MTV until Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, but you can get a sneak peek of the documentary, which follows Kenna and his team’s treacherous trek up Africa’s highest mountain, right now.

In February, Kenna, along with fellow musicians Lupe Fiasco and Santigold, actors Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch and Isabel Lucas, and a team of scientists and experienced mountain guides, climbed to the peak of Kilimanjaro — some 19,000 feet above sea level — with the goal of raising awareness about the global clean-water crisis. It’s an epidemic that hits close to home for the Ethiopian-born artist.

“When I was younger, my dad pointed out Kilimanjaro on a huge atlas. It stood in my mind as one of the wonders of the world,” he said. “This climb is dedicated to my father. As a child in Ethiopia, he lost his brother and lost his friends and family to water-borne diseases. A billion people in the world don’t have clean water. I had to do something about it. For me it’s personal. I could have been one of those kids. I needed to come up with something that would command attention. And the only thing I could think of that was that massive was climbing Kilimanjaro.”

Yep, I have more new content for you again! In the Extras section we have Photoshoot Concentration, Picture Memory – Daybreakers, Picture Memory – The Pacific, Tic Tac Toe – Daybreakers, a new Poll and a new page of Isabel with other celebrities. Some Bookmarks have been added in the Media section, and you will see from the Media index page that Desktop Icons and Screensavers are coming soon, too

I also added some publicity-style photos from last month’s Mt Kilimanjaro climb. I think these are being released to promote the documentary of the climb, which airs on MTV in a few weeks.

MTV released the first trailer for its upcoming documentary on the recent celeb-stacked Kilimanjaro climb that raised awareness about the need for clean drinking water in impoverished parts of the world. One thing is clear after watching the footage. This was no cakewalk.

Jessica Biel, Lupe Fiasco, Emile Hirsch, Isabel Lucas and other celebs all appear as if they’ve been pushed near the breaking point as they trudge up the side of the imposing mountain with a climbing party of roughly 300 people. Headaches, scrapes, bruises and exhaustion all look par for the course for the climbers. MTV plans to air the entire documentary March 14.

Ethiopian-born musician Kenna organized the climb after learning that his father had suffered from water-borne illnesses throughout much of his childhood, and many Ethiopians still travel long distances to secure clean drinking water. Kenna conceived of the socially-conscious Summit on the Summit after failing to climb the formidable mountain in 2007.