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 ...

When Ed Viesturs climbed Mount Everest in 2009, the world-renowned mountaineer and University of Washington graduate thought it could be his last trip to the world’s highest peak. So he made ...

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.

Ed Viesturs is the Reinhold Messner of American ... Viesturs also has been to the summit of Mt. Everest seven separate times, so he knows where the bodies are buried - literally.

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 ...

who knows Mount Everest as well as any American, will be in Portland next week for a pair of appearances. Viesturs will be signing "The Mountain: My Time on Everest," a new book co-written with ...

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 ...

Decades after he almost died, a mountain climber's near brush with death on Mount Everest is going viral ... "If it wasn't for [mountaineer] Ed Viesturs down with me to camp three and giving ...

Mount Everest isn't the most beautiful mountain ... About the world's tallest peak, Ed Viesturs, the author of "The Mountain: My Time on Everest," speaks with uncommon authority.

The news was confirmed by longtime members of the American climbing community Ed Viesturs ... In his lifetime, David climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest five times, including an ascent with ...