Ed Viesturs: What happens, and I’ve seen it before even with just a handful of teams on the mountain - let alone the droves that are there now - is that everybody waits for a summit window, the ...

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 ...

Viesturs told me he does not take the Guinness decision seriously. “The list, as I always saw it, named me the fifth person to climb every 8,000er without oxygen, ” Viesturs said.

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna—The World’s Deadliest Peak Ed Viesturs with David Roberts. Crown, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-72042-9 ...