Media
In October 2006, Viesturs published No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the Worlds 14 Highest Peaks, an autobiography that documented his 16-year journey summitting all fourteen eight-thousanders.
He made a cameo appearance playing himself in the film Vertical Limit.
He was a guest on the Daily Show on December 7, 2006, and appeared on The Colbert Report on March 14, 2007, where he agreed to plant a Colbert Report flag on top of Mount Everest the next time he went. On July 2, 2009, he brought the Colbert Nation flag back from Everest's summit to the show.
He was featured on the cover of Outside Magazine's thirtieth anniversary issue in 2007.
In October 2009, Viesturs and David Roberts published the book K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, which tells the story of six expeditions to the world's second tallest mountain.
In October 2011, Viesturs published "The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak," which he describes his own experiences on Annapurna as well as those of others who have attempted to climb the most dangerous (statistically) 8000 meter peak.
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