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2:35 p.m. Nepal time, Thursday, May 12, 2005
At 2 p.m. today, history was made. After a brutally long 11-hour ascent of Annapurna, a 26,545-foot peak in Nepal, Ed Viesturs, 45, succeeded in his 16-year endeavor of becoming the first American to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks. At 2:35 p.m., the base camp radio crackled with climbing partner Veikka Gustafsson's voice hollering, "We finally arrived!"
All 14 8000 Meter Peaks
At 2 p.m. today, history was made. After a brutally long 11-hour ascent of Annapurna, a 26,545-foot peak in Nepal, Ed Viesturs, 45, succeeded in his 16-year endeavor of becoming the first American to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks. At 2:35 p.m., the base camp radio crackled with climbing partner Veikka Gustafsson's voice hollering, "We finally arrived!"
All 14 8000 Meter Peaks
