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 ...

Subscribe today. 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 8,000-meter peaks without using ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a testament to exceptional skill, tenacity, lung capacity and luck, local climber Ed Viesturs cemented his place among the world's most elite alpinists by reaching the top of Annapurna ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lung-busting is finally over. Ed Viesturs’ long-running quest to become the first American to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks -- 26,240 feet and higher -- ended in triumph ...

Ed Viesturs is down $1,000, and he has only himself to blame. In 1997 Viesturs — arguably North America’s premier high-altitude mountaineer — found himself slogging across climbing’s ...

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 ...