This is quoted from a past thread ....
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noteworthy mountain adventures and books of the past....
"Also of note are books by .....
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and of course,
"K2, the Savage Mountain"
A stirring account of a desparate, courageous, heroic attempt to save the late Art Gilkey from the upper slopes of K2 by a group of Americans roughly a half-century ago, attempting K2 with a relatively small support group."
First American summits
Everest - Whittaker 1963
K2- Wickwire 1978
"Of all the fire mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest." - John Muir
"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads." - Anatole France
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"Of all the fire mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest." - John Muir
"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads." - Anatole France
Staying closer to home, East Garfield, a Homecourt Peak, was first climbed by Pete Schoening and Richard Berge (memorialized by Mt. Berge). Berge met his death in a fall on the North Face of Mt. Baring.
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