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When he saw Erik Weihenmayer arrive that afternoon, Pasquale Scaturro began to have misgivings about the expedition he was leading. Here they were on the first floor of Mount Everest, and Erik--the reason for the whole trip--was stumbling into Camp 1 bloody, sick and dehydrated. "He was literally green," says fellow climber and teammate Michael O'Donnell. "He looked like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch...
...Erik passed out in his tent, the rest of the team gathered in a worried huddle. "I was thinking maybe this is not a good idea," says Scaturro. "Two years of planning, a documentary movie, and this blind guy barely makes it to Camp...
There was another man who accompanied Erik Weihenmayer on the recent expedition to the top of the world. His name is Dr. Sherman Bull, and I've known him most of my life. He was a good friend and medical colleague of my father?s, but since Dad died about fourteen years ago I don?t see Sherman much any more. I had a chance to catch up with him the other night at a cocktail reception given in his honor at the New Canaan Country Club in Connecticut...
...Sherman can see just fine, so he didn?t receive quite the press that Erik did. The only reason Sherman gets mentioned at all, in fact, is that he also set a record with Erik that day. Sherman is 64, the oldest person to ever climb Mount Everest. He also stood on the summit with his son Brad, making them the second father-son team to do so. But that?s not the whole story...
...Erik Weihenmayer is the most visible hero of this past Everest expedition and deservedly so. But there were others that made it to the top with him, and for them the accomplishment is equally as great. One of them was a driven doctor from New Canaan, CT who fulfilled a life-long dream to not only scale the highest mountain in the world, but to climb the seven highest peaks on the earth?s seven continents. Climbers refer to this as conquering the "Seven Summits." For Dr. Sherman Bull, Everest was the final piece of a remarkable feat that...