Amputee to Climb World's Sixth-Highest Peak

In 2004, former UCSF patient Nawang Sherpa became the first man to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg. Now, with his friend and fellow mountaineer Tom McMillan, Sherpa plans to climb the Tibetan side of Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest peak on Earth, acording to the San Francisco Chronicle. Read story here. UCSF Today interviewed Sherpa and McMillan when the came to the academic medical center in March 2005. See that story
and video here.