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...face three hours away from the summit of the highest mountain on earth. But he never made it to the top—instead, he saved a man’s life. It was 7 a.m. on the morning of May 26, and Osborne and his team had been climbing for over seven hours since the night before. They were in their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With the summit close at hand, the team saw a man shivering uncontrollably from the bitter cold and sitting three feet from...
...expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, the first man to climb Mount Everest in 1953, on the death of British mountaineer David Sharp, who froze just below Everest's summit last week as several other climbers passed by without trying to save...
...dizzying pace in the past month. It's peak season on the 29,035-ft. summit--the world's highest--and more than 90 mountaineers made it to the top just last week. Here's a look at some of the notables who were up for the climb...
HABITS ARE HARD TO BREAK Sherpa Appa has twice said he would stop making his annual climb, but last week he did it again--for a record 16th time since...
...there was a barrier that day, I had no money to get back on the bus, no bus pass, I had nothing on me. I would have had to go and tell someone, or I would have been caught by the California Highway Patrol trying to climb the thing. I would have been saved and put in a mental hospital, and then I'd be at home, dealing with my bipolar, hopefully doing it the right way. I still get the voices, the panic attacks, still feel suicidal at times. I've just got to fight it every...