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 ...

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, 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 ...

On May 12, Bainbridge Island climber Ed Viesturs, 45, stood on the peak of 26,545-foot Annapurna, the planet's 10th-highest mountain. Reaching the top of the Nepalese giant (and getting back down ...

“I’ve been on mountaineering expeditions where we had to actually help someone down off a mountain because they suffered snow blindness at high altitude,” said Viesturs, referring to the ...

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For Ed Viesturs, a man who has spent the last 16 years of his life working to become the first American to climb the world’s 14 tallest peaks—all above 8,000 meters—patience is more than a ...