![Me and my dad: following in his footsteps on Everest | UW Magazine — University of Washington Magazine Me and my dad: following in his footsteps on Everest | UW Magazine — University of Washington Magazine](https://magazine.washington.edu/columns_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/3308603-R1-E013_3_FLAT.jpg)
Me and my dad: following in his footsteps on Everest | UW Magazine — University of Washington Magazine
National Geographic Magazine - Climbers pause at 24,000 feet (7,315 meters) on Mount Everest to assess terrain in this 1963 photo by Barry Bishop. Everest's untrodden West Ridge is veiled in cloud
![Everest Today on Twitter: "Event on this day, 1963.05.22; American pioneers Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld ascended #Everest by a new route via the West Ridge and also achieved the first traverse Everest Today on Twitter: "Event on this day, 1963.05.22; American pioneers Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld ascended #Everest by a new route via the West Ridge and also achieved the first traverse](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E184JJyVcAISXF8.jpg)