FCBi's Anderson Scales Everest

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Robert Anderson is a man of lofty pursuits. When he’s not working on HP, Diet Coke and Energy Star as group creative director at Foote, Cone & Belding’s FCBi unit, he’s usually off climbing mountains. Last Thursday he realized a spectacular dream: After nine attempts, he summited Mount Everest, 50 years to the day after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s historic ascent. And in reaching the top of the world, Anderson completed his goal, set in 1991, of scaling all of the Seven Summits—the tallest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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