Climbing Mount Everest

Western Athletic Hall of Famer Larry Nielson and Western Athletics Historian Paul Madison will discuss Nelson’s historic climb of Mount Everest. Madison will interview Nielson about his historic ascent up the world’s highest mountain, and they will also discuss what motivated Nielson to pursue mountain climbing. On May 7, 1983, Nielson, along with three other Americans and a Nepalese Sherpa, summited the peak from the southeast ridge located on the Nepal-China border. Nielson was the first American mountaineer to climb Mt. Everest without using bottled oxygen.