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...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...
...Climbing Everest obviously involves a lot of preparation, good physical conditioning, and incredible mental toughness. But it also eats up a lot of time. Sherman was over there for about 75 days. If you?re a successful physician with a second family, that?s quite a sacrifice. Multiply it by four attempts, and you?re talking obsession...
...reception, that obsession showed. Sherman was still sporting the beard that he grew during his expedition, which in his case was a good thing because that scruffy mess on his face filled him out. He?s a thin, wiry guy who runs marathons and enjoys "century" bike races. But after Everest, he?s twenty pounds lighter than normal. At least those little tufts sticking out of his cheeks gave some definition to his gaunt features. His beautiful pale blue eyes sat deep inside hollow eye sockets that were rimmed with black cuts created when his goggles froze to his face...
...Sherman graciously mentioned that it was my father that inspired him to start climbing. I was a bit taken aback since I couldn?t remember my father ever climbing anything except a stepladder. But there was that time Dad went to climbing school with my brother in the Sierra Nevada. My brother was too young to go on his own, and in an effort to become closer to his son, my Dad agreed to accompany him. He came back with his hands sliced to ribbons and stories of how he fell off the mountain three times. But my brother...
...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 few can imagine and even fewer accomplish...