Mount Everest
CONRAD ANKER “The Wildest Dream”
16 August 2010

By David Roberts
Originally published in the May 2008 edition of National Geographic Adventure magazine. The Wildest Dream is now in theaters.
“It was the most stressful trip I’ve ever been on,” says Conrad Anker. It’s July 5, 2007, and I’m in California, visiting Anker at his parents’ quirky and charming home in Big Oak Flat in the gold-rush country. The house, with wraparound balconies and towering picture windows, sits alone amid a thousand acres of ranch land, commanding a lordly view over the Central Valley to the west.
Japanese 'oldest man on Everest'
17 June 2010
A 71-year-old man from Japan has reportedly become the oldest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
Retired teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa scaled the 8,850m (29,035ft) Himalayan peak, breaking the record set by a 70-year-old Japanese man in May 2006.


