Together on Top of the World by Phil Ershler, Robin Simons, S... - 9780446570916

Together on Top of the WorldThe Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits\nAuthor(s): Phil Ershler, Robin Simons, Susan Ershler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Grand Central Publishing, United States\nImprint: Grand Central Publishing\nISBN-13: 9780446570916, 978-0446570916\nSynopsis\nOn May 16, 2002, Phil and Susan Ershler reached the top of Mt. Everest and became the first couple in history to scale the fabled Seven Summits. What made their achievement all the more remarkable was that Susan was not a mountain climber, but a high-powered Fortune 500 executive who had never hiked or climbed until she met Phil at the age of [url] a professional mountain guide who was the first American to summit Everest from its treacherous north face, had climbed his whole life with Crohn's disease, a chronic, debilitating illness. Adding to these challenges, just before their final summit, Phil was diagnosed with colon cancer, and the resulting surgeries and complications.