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Climber Reaches Mount Annapurna Summit
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BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-12-2005
Dateline: KATMANDU, Nepal
Mountaineer Ed Viesturs sits on the porch of his Bainbridge Island, Wash., in this Oct. 14, 2003 file photo. Viesturs summited Nepal's towering Mount Annapurna on Thursday May 12, 2005 becoming the first American to scale all the world's tallest peaks, reports from the mountain said. Viesturs, 44, from Seattle, Washington, reached the 8,091-meter (26,540-foot) summit in the afternoon, which was the last of the world's 14 peaks that are higher than 8,000 meters (26,240 feet) in height. He has become the ...
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