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Centenary Alumnus Becomes Youngest American to Reach Summit of Mt. Everest; Joby Ogwyn, Class of '97, Stands at the Roof of the World

Reprinted from Centenary Today, Vol.

13, No. 1, Summer 1999

By Lynn Stewart
Centenary News Service

Years of training, weeks of acclimatization, untold hours of aching muscles and heaving lungs, scores of prayers for a few hours' respite from Mother Nature's relentless fury.

All that was in the past for Joby Ogwyn '97 on May 12, 1999, when he stood at the summit of Mount Everest and looked down at the rest of the world.

He was 24 years old and, at that moment, he became the youngest American to conquer Everest.

At that moment, it was 9 in the morning and he enjoyed "as perfect a day as you could possibly hope for at that altitude." Above: blue skies and wispy white clouds.

Below: a picture postcard view of the majestic Himalayas, stra