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Date
April 16, 2012
- Time 7:30 p.m.
- Location Washington, D.C.
- Price NG Member: $18; General Public: $20 3-Part Series: $51/$57
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Photograph by Jake Norton/First Ascent
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A climbing world legend, Ed Viesturs is the first American to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen. A book The Will to Climb by Viesturs and National Geographic writer David Roberts, details Viesturs’s attempts on and eventual conquest of Annapurna, the “world’s deadliest peak” and the one that defied Viesturs the longest. Hear from them what Viesturs learned about dedication—and obsession.
Read Ed Viesturs’ Adventurer of the Year profile from 2005 and listen to this interview with Ed.
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