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 sure he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our recent article remembering French mountaineer Chantal Mauduit, we briefly touched on her 1992 rescue on K2. We noted how ...

World class climber Ed Viesturs lives in Seattle and is the only American to have summited all of the world’s 14 largest mountain peaks, including Everest seven times. He’s also made a number of treks ...

In this amiable history/memoir hybrid, noted high-altitude climber Viesturs discusses the joys and tribulations to be found on the world’s highest mountain and his successful quest to climb every peak ...

In May 2005, professional mountain climber Ed Viesturs joined the Mile-High-Plus Club by summiting Nepal’s Annapurna. It was the last of the world’s 14 8,000-meter mounts for Viesturs, and made him ...

Which is why earlier this week, on the 10th anniversary of the deadly 1996 "Into Thin Air" disaster on Mount Everest, Ed Viesturs took time out to feel, for the first time in nearly two decades, the ...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Climber Ed Viesturs reached the summit of Nepal's towering Mount Annapurna on Thursday, becoming the first American to scale all the world's tallest peaks, reports from the ...

I vividly remember, as a little kid, listening as a radio announcer excitedly broke into the coverage of Elizabeth II’s coronation to report that Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay had summated ...