Surgeon wants to be first Native American to summit Everest
, 2023-01-21 07:00:00,
Jacob Wiesel was in battle with Mt. Hurricane-force winds pounded it with snow and brought wind chills down to 50 degrees below. Standing at more than 19,000 feet, staring down the highway—1,000 feet of the well-known icy slope between High Camp and Denali Peak—he was about to lose.
Despite his pleas to his guides to let them continue, after 18 days of sleeping on the ice, he was the closest he ever got to the summit of North America’s tallest peak.
But Denali, which came at 20,310 feet, was neither Weasel’s first adventure nor his highest altitude adventure. A Monument Health trauma surgeon who is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in South Dakota has successfully climbed Mount Rainier (14,411 feet), Cloud Peak (13,171 feet), Grand Teton (13,775 feet) and a handful of 14- ers in Colorado. He summited Cotopaxi (19,347 feet) and Chimborazo (20,549 feet) in Ecuador within 48 hours of each other, and packs Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet) in Tanzania—checking out that continent’s highest peak.
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