Tag Archives: Sir Edmund Hillary
Calling The Colossus
The news that Sir Edmund Hillary had died of a heart attack at the age of 88 on Thursday in New Zealand didn’t particularly come as a shock to me—I’d been afraid of hearing the news since reading of his failing … Continue reading
Sherpas on Prime Time
A few weeks ago I got a surprising phone call from producers at ABC News who hoped to turn my recent piece on Sherpas in New York from Outside Magazine into a segment for World News Tonight. After two days of filming in SoHo and … Continue reading
Filed under Books + Media, Generally speaking..., Mount Everest, New York, Outside Magazine, Sherpas
Beyond Thin Air
Getting pretty frigid out, eh? Maybe not so bad if you’re from one of the coldest, highest, most dangerous places to climb on Earth. Four years ago I met–completely by accident—a Sherpa from the Himalayas in SoHo, who was once a high-altitude mountaineer, now working as … Continue reading
Filed under Books + Media, Generally speaking..., New York, Uncategorized
