She is a beautiful California girl, but she has a lot of chutzpah.”Įverest was the last peak in Pittman’s grand plan to become the third woman in history to scale the Top Seven, the highest mountains on each continent. Then she’d get written up in the columns, which is exactly what she wanted. “When she went kayaking in the East River, she would call up everyone she knew and tell them she was passing. “She’s a show-off,” says one friend with a shrug. “She’s very inspiring in that she finds a way to live life to its limits,“ says her pal Nina Griscom. Sporting La Perla lingerie under her Gore-Tex, she had, in her own words, traded “the escalator at Bergdorf’s” for more exotic terrain. Long before she left New York for Nepal on March 21, Pittman had succeeded in fashioning a romantic role for herself as a daring adventuress, a sort of modern-day Amelia Earhart. What had begun as a hobby-trekking in the Himalayas, horseback riding across Kenya, and kayaking in the Arctic Circle-evolved into a passion, a purpose, an identity. Years earlier, bored with life as the socialite wife of MTV creator Bob Pittman (estimated worth, more than $40 million), she had transformed a girlhood enthusiasm for mountaineering and adventuring into a high-profile outlet for her energy and ambition. Pittman, 41, had more at stake than the other climbers who had plunked down around $65,000 for the chance to stand at the world’s apex.
on May 10, she wasted no time celebrating, even though it was an achievement she had been working toward for a lifetime. So when Sandy Hill Pittman reached its fabled summit at roughly 2:30 P.M. This is the reason climbers refer to all peaks above 26,000 feet as “the Death Zone.” Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, is particularly lethal. Those who stay up too high, too long, will eventually be overcome by the altitude. Human beings were not designed to survive in thin air.
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