Ed Viesturs: No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks January 28, 2008

For eighteen years, Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail -- to stand atop the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But 'No Shortcuts to the Top' is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.