Second American Climbs All 8,000 Meter Peaks

Jake Stern for Outside:

On September 20, Chris Warner scraped the ceiling of the Earth for the fifth time this season, summiting Manaslu (26,781 feet), the eighth highest mountain in the world. The 58-year-old is now the second American to summit all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, after renowned mountaineer Ed Viesturs completed the list in 2005.

With all the talk about the overcrowding in the Himalayas I am sort of surprised that Chris is only the second American to have climbed all 8,000 meter peaks.