Hi Sk8r. His name is Ed Viesturs, and he has climbed all fourteen 8,000 meter peaks in the world without oxygen. He is an amazing climber. I collect signed mountaineering books, and I have his latest, as well as four books signed by Hillary and others signed by Reinhold Messner, Christian Bonington, David Breashears, Jim Whittaker, Conrad Anker, David Simonson, John Roskelly, Bradford Washburn, Kurt Diemberger, Galen Rowell and Maurice Herzog. Washburn's book was signed in a nursing home two weeks before his death.
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