For busy executives: the world’s shortest 8,000m peak expedition

We try to steer away from controversy here on the Footsteps on the Mountain blog, but sometimes difficult subjects have to be tackled.

It’s been a while since we did our last interview. You may remember that some time ago we interviewed champion rock climber Bill Scheidt on the use of sun cream in mountaineering. That interview proved so explosive that we had to close the comments for fear it might provoke all-out war within the climbing community.

It’s partly for this reason we have avoided...