On March 1, Eli was on a plane from Kathmandu to Los Angeles with his father, celebrating both World Down's Syndrome Day and the fulfillment of a dream. The Oregon resident, at the tender age of fifteen, had just become the first teenager with Down's Syndrome to make trek to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Eli's dad, Justin Reimer, who made the trek with him (along with a team of seven) told Time magazine,  “We’re able to celebrate that as we departed Katmandu with [Eli] just completing something that as far as we know, no other teen with Down Syndrome [in the U.S.]