As the first American to climb the world's 14 8,000-meter mountains without bottled oxygen, Ed Viesturs holds a special place ...

The tumultuous 2023 Himalayan climbing season was marked by both triumph and tragedy. More climbers than ever set out for Mount Everest’s summit, and 17 died on the mountain, the most ever in a season ...

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 all ...

Going up a mountain can be deadly work, as recent reports about missing climbers in Oregon and China grimly remind us. Bad weather, avalanches, accidents, altitude sickness, poor preparation, unsound ...

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Viesturs Ready to Make History on Nepal’s Annapurna 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 ...

Ed Viesturs is the Reinhold Messner of American climbing. In 2005, he completed Endeavor 8000, his climbs without supplemental oxygen of the world’s 14 peaks above 8,000 meters. Messner, the great ...

SEATTLE – As he hit the peak of his career as perhaps America’s most accomplished mountain climber, Ed Viesturs decided to retire.When he reached the summit of 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal on May 12 ...

Text by Mike Benoist; Photograph courtesy of Eddie Bauer / Jake Norton On March 25, Ed Viesturs, America’s preeminent high altitude mountaineer, will officially un-retire. The man who once told ...

Photograph courtesy of First Ascent / Jake Norton. See photographs from Viesturs Everest expedition. Tomorrow we will officially announce the sixth annual Adventurers of the Year, each honored for ...