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Hometown: Bainbridge Island, wash.
Age: 54
YeArs DIvIng: 36
FAvorIte DIve DestInAtIon:
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ed Viesturs
I
first met Ed Viesturs on a dive
trip to Panama. I was hired
by a dive-light manufacturer
to photograph him for an ad
campaign. Here was a man who had
been to the highest mountain peaks
on the planet and enjoyed scuba
diving; he could provide a credible
endorsement for gear that goes both
places. We had a great time diving
off Coiba Island, but I was poorly
adapted to keep up with him climbing
into Panama’s highland jungles. I
guess I shouldn’t have felt too bad
to fall so far behind, for Viesturs had
summited Mount Everest seven times
and scaled all 14 of the world’s 8,000-
meter peaks, all without the aid of
supplemental oxygen.
The flatlands of Rockford, Ill.,
were an unlikely childhood home
for one of the world’s foremost high-
altitude mountaineers, but Viesturs’
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