Skidmore Baseball Alum Summits Mount Everest

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Former Skidmore College baseball player Matt Ferrari recently summited Mount Everest, even posing at the top of the mighty mountain with a Skidmore baseball banner. 

Ferrari was part of the esteemed 2005 baseball team that captured both the Liberty League regular season title and the tournament championship. They were also the first baseball team to represent Skidmore in the NCAA Division III tournament, where they entered the New York Regional Tournament as the No. 2 seed, earned a pair of victories, and ultimately finished in third place. Ferrari and his teammates were inducted into the Skidmore Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011.

Less than 8,000 people are believed to have ever summited Mount Everest, which stands at more than 29,000 feet tall.