"It pretty much consumed me for most of my mountaineering career from about 1987 on through 1991," Dawson, 56, said.

Scott's mountaineering career includes over 30 expeditions to inner Asia and he is regarded as one of the world's leading high altitude and big wall climbers.

He started his mountaineering career from then on.

The Eiger controversy in some way overshadowed the rest of Corti's mountaineering career.

His mountaineering career began in the Alps, where with Willi Welzenbach he made the first ascent of the north face of the Grossglockner.

Mondinelli began his mountaineering career by making several ascents in the Alps, especially Monte Rosa.

It was here that he began his mountaineering career on the slopes of Mount Rainier.

They separated in 1993 when Hillary began talking about resuming his mountaineering career after a three-year hiatus, and were subsequently divorced.

Ridgeway started his mountaineering career in the late '60s and early '70s, making first ascents and new routes on a series of expeditions to the Peruvian Andes.