In Part 1 of our interview series with American mountaineer Ed Viesturs, we discussed the Guinness World Record folks stripping the great Reinhold Messner of his long-held title of first to summit ...

He lives, climbs, bikes, and skis in the Eastern Sierra. The whole series of events did not sit well with Ed Viesturs, the legendary alpinist who in 2005 became the first American to ascend the ...

Five miles above the sea, at an altitude where planes cruise and nothing lives for long, Ed Viesturs pants like a dog, gasping for air. His tongue hangs out of his mouth for so long it's burned by ...

Ed Viesturs will never forget climbing K2, the fearsome 28,251-foot peak in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range. He would go on to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, the first American to ...

Ed Viesturs is going after the “Naked Mountain,” the deadly peak that has killed more than 60 people who have attempted to conquer it. It is Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak ...

That’s according to renowned mountaineer Ed Viesturs. The bestselling author, who has stood on top of the world’s highest peak seven times, urged climbers looking to make the historic journey ...

Bainbridge Island climber Ed Viesturs has reached the summit of 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal, becoming the first American and one of only 12 climbers ever to stand atop all 14 of the world’s ...

Ed Viesturs, known as "The Chevy truck of mountaineering," is one of the world's pre-eminent high-altitude climbers and guides. Among his many mountaineering accomplishments, he has reached the ...

Ed Viesturs is lucky. He found his passion early in life. Even as a youngster, Viesturs had a yen for adventure. When he was 16, he read a book by a legendary mountain climber, Maurice Herzog ...

Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest mountaineers, Ed Viesturs is one of fewer than 20 people and the only American to have climbed all of those peaks — and one of only five to ...

What Is a Summit? By JOHN BRANCH May 12, 2021 Ed Viesturs believes he knows. He is one of the 44, the only American on the list. In 1993, climbing alone and without supplemental oxygen or ropes ...