(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of KDKA-TV I CBS-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on April 18th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pokhara, Nepal) The Terrible Towel was taken to new heights last week to the tallest mountain in the world. Allen Dean, a Pittsburgh Steelers fan from Sewickley, recently took a Terrible Towel with him when he took the long climb from Pokhara, Nepal, near Mount Everest. Dean did this as a tribute to a man called “Big Mike,” a long-time father figure to him who died a few months ago. His widow gave Dean Big Mike’s Terrible Towel and wanted him to accomplish the climb for Big Mike. According to Dean, he trained vigorously for this climb, often spending weekends taking his kids to hike just about every regional state park imaginable.