Ed Webster

Did you know that American Mt. Everest climber and author Ed Webster (whose father was from London) is one of just three mountaineers cited in the board game Trivial Pursuit? The other two are Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Webster's most notable accomplishment was ascending a new route up Mt. Everest's Kangshung Face in Tibet in 1988, which his International 4-man team (USA, Canada, UK) achieved with no bottled oxygen, radios, or even Sherpa assistance on the mountain. Not wanting to risk any Sherpa injuries or deaths, the team carried every ounce of gear and food themselves.

FOR a PREVIEW, Webster’s EVEREST LECTURE VIDEO is on YouTube. PART ONE https://youtu.be/zjAHkTHn4fA PART TWO https://youtu.be/0cR4jwqLFCI

Rock climber, Himalayan climber, and author-photographer ED WEBSTER (b.1956 in Boston, now living in Maine, USA) had his first magazine article and photos published in Climbing Magazine at age 17 in 1973. In the last four decades, fifty of his articles and hundreds of his stunning images have been published worldwide in magazines as diverse as Alpinist, MOUNTAIN, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic Adventure, Popular Mechanics, and Rolling Stone.

Webster's photos have graced a multitude of renowned mountain books, such as Everest - Into The Silence, Himalayan Alpine-Style, 50 Classic Climbs of North America, Everest the Best Writing and Photographs, Alone at the Summit, Beyond the Vertical, CLIMB!, and many more.

His five books are: three editions of the classic guidebook, Rock Climbs in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (1982, 1986, and 1996), Climbing in the Magic Islands, to the Lofoten Islands of Arctic Norway (1994), and his best-selling "Everest-years" autobiography, Snow in the Kingdom, My Storm Years on Everest (2000) which has earned a solid 5-star Reader Rating on Amazon.

He is the recipient of the American Mountain Foundation's 1988 Seventh Grade Award for outstanding achievements in mountaineering; the American Alpine Club's 1990 Literary Award; and American Alpine Club's highest honor, the David H. Soules Award, for saving the life of a fellow climber, in 1994. Ed Webster's expeditions have taken him to Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, Bhutan, and Mongolia.