The road to Everest took one Australian climber across India, through grief and toward a world record

Australian climber Oliver Foran is attempting one of mountaineering’s most demanding challenges: reaching the summit of ...
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Seattle mountaineering legend Jim Whittaker, first American to summit Everest, dies at 97

SEATTLE — Jim Whittaker, the Seattle-born mountaineer who became the first American to summit Mount Everest and later helped shape the Northwest’s outdoor culture, has died at age 97. Whittaker passed ...