‘The Only Limits Are the Ones You Place on Yourself.’ Meet the First U.S. Amputee to Scale Mount Everest

Gasping for air in the middle of the night, during one of the worst moments on his trek to the perilous peak of Mount Everest, Jeff Glasbrenner thought of his dad.

The Wisconsin native was summoning his strength after being jolted awake by a sudden inability to breathe more than 17,000 feet in the air. In that instant, he questioned why he had left his family behind in Colorado to take the life-threatening journey. Then he recalled his late father’s words of wisdom.