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Ed Viesturs
Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IMDb )〕 is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker. He is the only American to have climbed all 14 of the world's eight-thousander mountain peaks, and the fifth person to do so without using supplemental oxygen.〔(Table with list of climbers who have reached 10 or more "eight-thousanders", including repetitions, by Eberhard Jurgalski (PDF download) )〕 Along with Apa Sherpa, he has summitted peaks of over 8,000 meters on 21 occasions, including Mount Everest seven times; only four other climbers, Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa, Juanito Oiarzabal, Namgyal Sherpa, and Ang Dorje Sherpa, have more high-altitude ascents.
==Early life==
Viesturs was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, of Latvian and German descent. He was raised in Rockford, Illinois, Viesturs moved to Seattle, Washington in 1977 to attend the University of Washington. It was here that he began his mountaineering career on the slopes of Mount Rainier.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RMI Guide Staff )〕 Viesturs graduated from the University of Washington in 1981 with a BS in zoology〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artsci.washington.edu/news/Autumn05/Viesturs.htm )〕 and worked as a guide for Rainier Mountaineering. He later obtained a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Washington State University.
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