1. * Q. "Who is your favorite mountain climber?" A. "Sir Edmund Hillary; and just like ___, I want to be one of the few people in the world who can say they have stood atop Mount Everest!"
4. Hip-Hop trio, with Soul
8. * Like many mountains
11. * Mount Everest is part of the what?
13. Shower Sponge (var. sp.)
16. * #61D is a famous one: Mountain ___
17. * #16A in #51D
19. Make-a-Word! C-_-_-_-_-i-c (Helter-Skelter)
20. Sort of Sprite, minus the "Gn"
22. Doc's helper
23. Headlines were made when it was protested in Seattle, for short
24. * Sicily's famous volcano
26. * They form the Continental Divide
28. The Tony, for example
31. Extinct ox
33. Fashionable
34. Type of wound
35. Kinds of cuckoos
36. Character on "Married... with Children" (TV) who shares the first name of the famous actor at #36D!
37. * Abbr. before McKinley
39. * Condition that can afflict climbers on the world's highest mountains
41. * Apollo's sacred mountain
44. Great Grades
45. Camper, for short
46. Certain monk
48. Bog down
49. Indefinite article
50. Humans = ___ Sapiens
51. * Mount Helens connecter
52. * Country through which #17A run
55. Tatum's father
57. doirep cirotsiH
58. Bread song
59. Small, without the "wee"
60. Ms. Pauley
64. * See #7D
67. * Reached the summit of a mountain = ___ a mountain
69. * ".reeniatnuom doog a eb ot woh gninrael ni ___ __ euqinhcet reporP" :ssalC gnibmilC niatnuoM ni diaS
70. * Mentioned in Mountaineering Class: "The guides who help mountaineers in their climbs up Mount Everest are known ___."
72. Make-a-Word! P-_-u-s-_-_ (Took a breather)
73. French verb that means "To Be"
74. Make-a-Word! F-r-_-_-_-e-d (Like mountain tops in Winter!)