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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...
...Sherman?s been there before - or almost there before. During the reception, he joked that when he walked through the streets of Kathmandu, strangers would walk up to him and say, "Sherman, are you trying again?" "That?s not a good thing" he dead-panned...
...sure how many times Sherman has tried to climb Everest, and it became clear as I talked to him during the evening that he isn't either. This may have been his fourth attempt, maybe his fifth. But, to the great relief of his second wife Peggy, finally making it to the top means this was his last...
...Shira is survived by her parents, Joanne Palmer and Andrew Sherman, her sister, Miriam Palmer-Sherman and her beloved Jesse O. Kellerman...