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Outside May 2003 Jenny Dubin	Lucky 13 Meet Apa Sherpa, who will attempt to break his own record of 12 Everest summits this month
Outside May 2003	Everest's Destiny Hold on to your crampons. May 29 marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful summit of Mount Everest, by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Record crowds of climbers, trekkers, and gawkers are expected to cram the mountain.
Knowledge@Wharton September 24, 2003	A Lofty Take on Leadership: Mountain Climbing and Managing Companies Wharton management professor Michael Useem has just published a book using experiences in mountain climbing to describe how business leaders reach their summits.
Outside September 2005 Mark Jenkins	The Elements of Style It's time for a radical reform of high-altitude mountaineering -- and a fresh debate over what it means to climb right
Outside November 2007 Christian DeBenedetti	Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Hale, Hearty, Tough-As-Nails, Acclimatized-At-Birth Mountain People... The skyscrapers of Manhattan may not reach as high as Everest, but this is where Tsering Norbu Sherpa, a member of mountaineering's most famous clan, is making a new life.
CIO May 15, 2003 Julie Hanson	Because It's There Mount Everest poses many challenges. Rough, variable weather. Altitude acclimatization. Hazardous icefalls. And then there's setting up an Internet cafe on a glacier that moves up to three feet a day.
Outside September 2006	What the Pros Know: Mount Everest Guides Debate The experts weight in on the risks and rewards of climbing Mount Everest.
Outside September 2006 Ed Douglas	Over the Top David Sharp's lonely death on Mount Everest revived the old, raging debates about personal ethics and the wisdom of commercially guided climbing.
Wired May 2000 Andrew Rice	High Trek Blizzard-ready laptops, snow-penetrating radar, titanium ice screws - an all-new breed of technical climber is tackling Everest this spring.
Outside July 2007 Kevin Fedarko	High Times You were told that Everest base camp is an insult to the true spirit of mountaineering. But why weren't you told about the excellent bars, the butter people, and that friendly playboy bunny from Poland?
Salon.com November 20, 2000 Dennis Drabelle	Doctor on Everest by Kenneth Kamler A physician rides the "Into Thin Air" bandwagon with a grisly account of high-altitude medical disasters...
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Ken Kamler	Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge.
Outside September 2003 Maria Coffey	The Survivors "He died doing what he loved best," they always say. But when climbers meet their end on the high peaks, the ordeal is just beginning for their wives, husbands, children, parents, and friends. An exclusive excerpt from Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow
Popular Mechanics January 8, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Mt. Everest Climbers Measure Lowest Blood Oxygen Levels on Record--Their Own How low can your blood oxygen level go? To find out, you might need to climb a mountain.
Outside August 2003	Base Camp Breakdown Running the numbers on the world's tallest mountain
Searcher January 2007 Linnea Christiani	Online on Everest The world feels a lot smaller when you can have an interactive e-mail exchange with someone in your family half a globe away and half a day behind or make a satellite phone call from an elevation that can barely sustain life.
AskMen.com December 12, 2000 Pamela Bode	Mountain Climbing In Nepal Having decided that my next holiday would be trekking in Nepal, I found that training for altitude climbing when you live right on the coast in Sydney is impossible...
High on Adventure February 2004	Everest Base Camp Trek Experiencing Nepal's mountains, villages, and culture
Outside November 2003 Kevin Fedarko	The Mountain of Mountains How do you crack the code to K2, the darkest, deadliest peak on the planet? If you're a climber, have the courage to accept that you're bound to fail, and the wisdom to know that failure has its own rewards.
Outside December 2005 Conrad Anker	Improving the Odds for Sherpas This all-star pantheon created the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (ALCF) to teach Sherpas more about avalanche forecasting and crevasse rescue.
Outside September 2006 Nick Heil	Pax Himalaya A tourism industry hobbled by years of civil war and political instability looks to rebound as Nepal makes moves toward a lasting peace. Is it finally safe to go back?
Outside December 2002 Brad Wetzler	The $50,000 Pyramid Mount Everest becomes a prize on TV's Global Extremes. Is this a Good Thing?
Sports Illustrated May 29, 2001 Ellie Weihenmayer	Vision Quest Last Thursday, Erik Weihenmayer, 32, became the first blind climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest. His wife, Ellie, monitored his ascent from their house in Golden, Colo., and offers these thoughts on his accomplishment...
Outside November 2008 Alex Crevar	A Brief History of Mountain Film The Banff Mountain Film Festival returns for its 33rd edition, with some 500 screenings in 30 countries. Here's a look at how high-altitude cinema arose from low-rent beginnings.
Outside December 2005 Nick Heil	The Light of Seven Mountain Suns The Himalayan Cataract Project is curing blindness overnight in the most remote villages of Nepal and India.
Outside May 2007 Abrahm Lustgarten	Automated Response Helicopter rescues on the summit of Everest may soon be reality. And the pilot won't be anywhere in sight.
Outside February 2007	Conrad Anker & Jenni Lowe A new documentary details the history of the foundation of the Khumbu Climbing School.
Outside October 2005 Luke Collins	Attention Getter Danielle Fisher has climbed the highest peak on each continent, including Mount Everest -- and she's only 20.
Outside September 2006 Tim Sohn	Impossible to Forget Survivors from Everest '96 recall a day of terror and confusion that many still believe was distorted in ways that oversimplified complex events and dishonored the dead.
Outside September 2006 Philip D. Armour	Will Pemba Sherpa Be On the Quiz? You need to learn your lesson! So listen up to Mike Roberto, a fast-talking consultant who uses the '96 saga as a teaching tool for students, lawyers, and businessmen.
Outside April 2010 Bruce Barcott	Into Teen Air He's 13 years old, and he'-s headed up to 29,000 feet. As a new generation of adventurous kids post monster feats at younger and younger ages, Jordan Romero has his elders asking: Just how young is too young?
Outside January 2007 Dave Hahn	The No Fall Zone When free skier Kit DesLauriers dropped in at 29,035 feet on Mount Everest in October, she became the first person to ski off the Seven Summits.
Outside May 2010	Apa Sherpa on Everest This season Mount Everest will host it's youngest climber, one with an artificial hip, and the return of Apa Sherpa.
Outside September 2007 Nick Heil	Elevated Can Viagra really improve high-altitude performance?
Outside September 2006 Mary Turner	Sandy Hill, 51 For survivor from Everest '96 talks about her heroes who saved her life, the infamous cappuccino maker, and why she thinks journalists mostly got it wrong.
Outside January 2007	How to Make it to the Top How to climb Mt. Everest. Excerpts from The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness by blind Everest climber Erik Weihenmayer and business consultant Paul G. Stoltz.
Outside September 2003 Ted Kerasote	Ultimate Downer Maegan Carney wants to be the first woman to ski Everest
Outside November 2009 Ryan Stuart	Extreme Explorer Eric Larsen Explorer Eric Larsen hopes to become the first person to reach earth's three most extreme points -- both poles and Mount Everest -- in one year.
Outside February 2008 Brad Wetzler	The Madness Continues The newest book about Everest's ever-increasing chaos is High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed by Michael Kodas.
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira	Faith that moves mountains Jaime Vinals feels an irrepressible attraction for heights. So much so that he is the only Central American to have scaled the seven highest summits in the world, including Mount Everest, which he succeeded in doing on May 23, 2001.