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Buckeye Institute CEO Robert Alt summits Mount Everest
The Columbus Dispatch covered Robert Alt’s Mt. Everest Summit. “This isn’t where Alt’s journey ends, however. On Profound Climbing, Alt shared his plan to climb the Seven Summits of the World, or the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents.”
Cleveland.com: Buckeye’s Robert Alt Summits Everest
Cleveland.com highlighted Robert Alt’s summiting Mt. Everest. “Everest is the fifth peak Alt has collected from the ‘Seven Summits,’ a mountaineering challenge to climb the highest peak on each of the world’s seven continents.”
Robert Alt Featured in Premier Nepali Business Magazine
Robert Alt sat down with Nepal’s premier business magazine, Business 360, for a conversation about free market ideas, public policy, and the lessons mountaineering can offer to those working to shape a more prosperous and accountable future.
Verso l’alto – orienting our focus toward higher things
Reflect with Robert Alt on the impactful meaning of the pithy Italian phrase verso l’alto.
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Drones on Everest — 2025
American mountaineer Robert Alt shares his firsthand perspective as he relishes a front-row seat to observe the inaugural use and impact of drones on Everest for the 2025 climbing season.
In Grateful Acknowledgment
Robert Alt extends thanks to those who generously enabled his blogging and to the people who have served as examples in his personal life, professional career, and hobby sport.
Full circle life moments and Dad’s postcard from Nepal
Robert Alt’s father mailed a postcard from his own trek to Everest Base Camp in the late 1990s that foreshadowed Robert’s 2015 hiking in Nepal.
Fate? Everest Summit—May 15, 2025—and Profound Love
Robert Alt conveys how a Czech proverb augured his eventual mountain climbing and wonders whether he was destined to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the exact day he ultimately did in 2025.
For a Free and Prosperous Nepal
Robert Alt arrives in Kathmandu, reunites with Nepal's free-market think tank—Samriddhi Foundation—and meets the legendary Pasang Dawa Sherpa.
Trekking to Everest Base Camp a few days at a time — Lukla >> Tengboche
Robert Alt arrives in Lukla via alternative transportation and treks through several villages in the Khumbu Valley to reach Tengboche.
Yeti skulls and sacred blessings, living as tigers instead of sheep, and mitigating risk
Robert Alt visits Pangboche's famous monastery, is moved by a poignant memorial to the fallen, reports no yeti sightings thus far, and emphasizes his PROFOUND CLIMBING™ approach to mountaineering.
Hills vs. Mountains? Focusing on a singular worthy goal and what Shakespeare must have intuited about mountaineering
Robert Alt contends with summit fever on Lobuche, accepts wise counsel from a fictional knight circa 1597, and doubles down on his singlemindedness with his sights unalterably set on Everest, 2025.
Cleveland.com: Buckeye’s Robert Alt is “On the Move”
Cleveland.com heard that Robert Alt was “On the Move” and climbing Everest. He certainly is.
Arriving to Everest Base Camp (EBC) at Last!
Robert Alt makes it to Everest Base Camp after a long journey, describes his first impressions, and enjoys a festive Puja ceremony with Sherpas and fellow climbers.
VIDEO: Well wishes from the GOAT – Free Soloist Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold sends kind words of encouragement before Robert Alt’s epic expedition. Watch the video.
GRWM Everest-style—day before departure
Follow along with Robert Alt’s activities the day before he left Columbus, Ohio, for Kathmandu, Nepal.
Of icy mountains, good fathers, and worthy goals
A personal message Robert Alt wrote from his expedition in Antarctica to The Buckeye Institute’s supporters on December 29, 2022, explaining the inspirational role his late father plays in his mountain climbing.
Robert Alt’s Everest Climb Map
View the map of Robert Alt’s climb from Everest Base Camp to the summit shown with approximate elevations.
First things first: Why?
Robert Alt’s profoundly considered perspective about why he climbs mountains.
Cairns and a love letter* for the ages
Robert Alt describes his wife’s romantic gesture, loving support, and special birthday gift.