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It could be called the most successful Everest expedition ever, and not just because of Erik's participation. A record 19 climbers from the N.F.B. team summited, including the oldest man ever to climb Everest--64-year-old Sherman Bull--and the second father-and-son team ever to do...
Erik, sitting in the Kathmandu international airport, waiting for the flight out of Nepal that will eventually return him to Golden, Colo., is surrounded by his teammates and the expedition's 75 pieces of luggage. Success has made the group jubilant. This airport lounge has become the mountaineering equivalent of...
Nothing about the assignment proved simple, not even leaving it. Because the airport staff obeyed the curfew, many planes were unable to take off, so Greenfeld and the Weihenmayer expedition were in danger of being grounded. Surveying the amount of equipment the expedition members had with them, Greenfeld was comforted...
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...
On May 24, with only seven days left in the climbing season, most of the N.F.B. expedition members knew this was their last shot at the peak. That's why when Erik and Chris Morris reached the Balcony, the beginning of the Southeast Ridge, at 27,500 ft., after a...