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          Discovery Channel's Mount Everest special tracking veteran climber Joby Ogwyn ended in the worst possible way last month....

          In May, the Discovery Channel will be broadcasting live as climber Joby Ogwyn climbs to the summit of Mount Everest and then jumps off it.

        1. Ogwyn, who was filming a documentary when the tragedy hit on April 18, mourns the loss of the Sherpas killed in avalanche: "It's heartbreaking".
        2. Discovery Channel's Mount Everest special tracking veteran climber Joby Ogwyn ended in the worst possible way last month.
        3. At age 24, he became the youngest American to ever climb Mt. Everest in , and he scaled the 26,ft Cho Oyu in Tibet in record time in.
        4. He is the author of three books.

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          CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA

          Joby Ogwyn '97 at Summit of Mt. Everest, May 1999

          Centenary Alumnus Becomes Youngest American to Reach Summit of Mt. Everest; Joby Ogwyn, Class of '97, Stands at the Roof of the World

          Reprinted from Centenary Today, Vol.

          13, No. 1, Summer 1999

          By Lynn Stewart
          Centenary News Service

          Years of training, weeks of acclimatization, untold hours of aching muscles and heaving lungs, scores of prayers for a few hours' respite from Mother Nature's relentless fury.

          All that was in the past for Joby Ogwyn '97 on May 12, 1999, when he stood at the summit of Mount Everest and looked down at the rest of the world.

          He was 24 years old and, at that moment, he became the youngest American to conquer Everest.

          At that moment, it was 9 in the morning and he enjoyed "as perfect a day as you could possibly hope for at that altitude." Above: blue skies and wispy white clouds.

          Below: a picture postcard view of the majestic Himalayas, stra