Leif Whittaker’s memoir: climbing Everest, in his father’s footsteps

Leif Whittaker’s recollection of a terrifying midnight pee on Mount Everest’s South Col says a lot about what it was like to grow up as the youngest son of Everest-conqueror “Big Jim” Whittaker.

Having crawled from his tent out into a blizzard, Whittaker-the-younger finds himself momentarily lost and imagines the headline: “FAMOUS CLIMBER’S SON DISAPPEARS WHILE URINATING.”