title: Peak performance.
abstract: Earlier this year, a Pittsburgh-based adventurer became the first American with diabetes to reach the top of Mount Everest. He proved that nothing--not record-breaking winds, freezing temperatures, dangerous ice, or his disease--would slow him down.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Milewski
mesh_terms: D000531:Altitude; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009051:Mountaineering; D018609:Tibet