The new movie Everest is all Hollywood ... As it turned out, two IMAX filmmakers David Breashears and Ed Viesturs were there with cameras. Everest, as TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger explained, had ...

Breashears and deputy expedition leader Ed Viesturs, along with the crew filming the IMAX movie, were on Everest in May of last year when tragedy struck several climbers ahead of Breashears and ...

Jim Clash: Why is Mt. Everest seeing increasingly large crowds each year? Haven’t we learned anything from the deadly “Into Thin Air” disaster in 1996? Ed Viesturs: What happens, and I’ve ...

Ed Viesturs, known as "The Chevy truck ... how do you determine whether a client continues climbing or not? VIESTURS: When we're guiding here on Everest as in any guiding situation, we're always ...

On May 12, 2005, high-altitude mountaineer Ed Viesturs reached ... No Shortcuts to the Top—Viesturs once turned around a mere 300 feet from the summit of Everest. Since then, he's stood atop ...

Scaling Mount Everest and then living to tell the story boils down to understanding one thing—sometimes it can’t be done in one shot. That’s according to renowned mountaineer Ed Viesturs.

Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest mountaineers, Ed Viesturs is one of fewer ... best as the star of the 1996 IMAX movie about Mount Everest, which he has climbed seven times.

Ed Viesturs will never forget ... from the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest that killed eight and was chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. Viesturs sits in a crowded Starbucks near the ...

The whole series of events did not sit well with Ed ... Viesturs said. That, combined with what he describes as a group-think mentality, likely contributed to the high death toll on Everest.

Five miles above the sea, at an altitude where planes cruise and nothing lives for long, Ed ... Everest in 1996, he was pragmatic in his pain. Viesturs was leading the climb for the Imax movie ...

were the biggest obstacle faced by an elite Seattle climbing group that made it to the top of Mount Everest Tuesday morning, Nepal time, says climbing legend Ed Viesturs, who stood atop the world ...

Bainbridge Island climber Ed Viesturs has ... including Mount Everest, where dozens of commercial expeditions were forced to retreat to their base camps. Viesturs credited the Italian climbers ...