High achievers

Washington stood out with another crop of high achievers in the world of mountaineering.

8,000 meter high: Ed Viesturs of Bainbridge Island, Wash., climbed Nepal’s 26,540-foot Mount Annapurna last spring, concluding a 16-year odyssey to become the first American to climb the world’s tallest 14 peaks — all above 8,000 meters, or 26,240 feet.

The 45-year-old climber and filmmaker, who has reached the summit of Mount Everest six times, promptly announced his retirement from the sport after getting down safely from Annapurna. The first person to scale all 14 peaks was Italian Reinhold Messner, who completed the task in 1986 at age 42. Viesturs is the 12th.

Dethroned: Spokane climber Jess Roskelley’s distinction as the youngest American to climb Mount Everest lasted only two years. He was upstaged on the top of the world this spring by an even younger Washington climber, who happens to be a girl: 5-foot-7, 130-pound Danielle Fisher, 20, of Bow in Skagit County.

Seven summits and counting: Fisher also upstaged 22-year-old Britton Keeshan of Connecticut as the youngest person to climb the highest peak on each continent. Fisher started climbing five years ago with an ascent of Mount Baker with her father. She focused on the Seven Summits goal after scaling Mount Aconcagua in Argentina in 2003.