Jim Wickwire of Seattle and Louis Reichardt were ... dug out a platform with his ice axe and got into his thin bivouac sack to ride out the long, bitterly cold night. “I wasn’t intending ...

In 1978, Seattle lawyer Jim Wickwire and his buddy Louis Reichardt were stranded on the beast of the mountain resting in Pakistan near the Chinese border amid insurmountable odds of surviving.

In mountaineering’s answer to professional golf’s seniors tour, legendary American climbers John Roskelley, Jim Wickwire, and Charlie Porter, ages hovering around 50, joined last spring to ...