Eric Simonson, once an active presence on local ... and traveling with that show to Broadway. Five months into that show’s run on Broadway he would leave and, he writes, “never set foot ...

Eric Simonson, who hales from Ashford, Washington, boasts a climbing career that spans nearly 30 years, including 20 years in the Himalayas. He climbed Everest in 1991, on his third attempt.