A Rubber Chicken on Top of the World

My friend Michael Frank made it to the top of Everest this summer. Michael has the distinction, in a claim which has been documented and seems to be holding up under scrutiny, of being the first human being to bring a rubber chicken to the top of Mount Everest. Here's a description of the summit attempt. I climbed Mount Adams and Mount Ranier, and spent a fairly miserable night in a snow cave after getting stuck in a storm at ~14K feet just below Liberty Cap on Rainier, with Michael many years ago during my very brief alpine climbing career. Michael's tolerance for epic levels of human suffering is way higher than mine will ever be.