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Edmund Viesturs, known as Ed Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He was the 12th person in the world, and the first from the United States to climb all of the world's fourteen 8,000 meter peaks. He climbed all of these mountains without using bottled oxygen, becoming the fifth person ever to do this. In total Viesturs has reached the summit of an 8,000 meter peak 20 times, including 7 times on Everest.