List of Popular American Mountaineers
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Garrett Madison
Garrett Madison is an American mountaineer and is one of the worlds top high altitude mountaineering guides, having personally guided 37 clients to the summit of Mt Everest between the years 20092015, more than any other American. Garrett began guiding professionally in 1999 on Mount Rainier, and his company, Madison Mountaineering, provides domestic training programs and local summit climbs, operates on the highest peaks on all seven continents, and specializes in climbs of the highest mountai....
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Hazard Stevens
Hazard Stevens was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Huger. Stevens and Philemon Beecher Van Trump made the first documented successful climb of Mount Rainier on August 17, 1870.....
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Clarence King
Clarence Rivers King was an American geologist, mountaineer, and author. He served as the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. King was noted for his exploration of the Sierra Nevada.....
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Fred Beckey
Friedrich Wolfgang Beckey, known as Fred Beckey, is an American rock climber, mountaineer and author, who has made hundreds of first ascents, more than any other North American climber.....
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Alex Lowe
Stewart Alexander Alex Lowe was an American mountaineer. He climbed several peaks in North America and Asia and was wellregarded by his peers. He died in an avalanche in Tibet. Lowes body was discovered on April 27, 2016 over 16 years after his death.....
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Greg Mortenson
Greg Mortenson is an American humanitarian, professional speaker, writer, and former mountaineer. He is a cofounder and former executive director of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute, from which he was forced to resign as executive director following an investigation by the Montana attorney general, and the founder of the educational charity Pennies for Peace.....
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Francis P Farquhar
Francis Peloubet Farquhar was an American mountaineer, environmentalist and author in addition to his career as a Certified Public Accountant.....
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George Irving Bell
George Irving Bell was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley. He died from complications of leukemia after surgery.....
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Chris Kroger
Chris Kroger from Wilson, Wyoming, is an American ski mountaineer and member of the United States Ski Mountaineering Association ski team.....
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Barry Bishop mountaineer
Barry Chapman Bishop was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar. With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest, on May 22, 1963. He worked for the National Geographic Society for most of his life, beginning as a picture editor in 1959 and serving as a photographer, writer, and scientist with the society until his retirement in 1994. He was killed in an automobile accident near ....
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Doug Coombs
Doug Coombs was an American alpine skier and mountaineer who helped to pioneer the sport of extreme skiing, both in North America and worldwide.....
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Jeannie Wall
Jeannie Wall from Bozeman, Montana is an American ski mountaineer and member of the United States Ski Mountaineering Association ski team.....
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Bradford Washburn
Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. was an American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer. He established the Boston Museum of Science, served as its director from 19391980, and from 1985 until his death served as its Honorary Director . Bradford married Barbara Polk in 1940, they honeymooned in Alaska making the first ascent of Mount Bertha together.....
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Marshall Ulrich
Marshall Ulrich is an American ultramarathon runner, adventure racer and mountaineer. He holds various distinctions in several sports he has completed 124 ultra marathons averaging over 100 miles each has climbed the tallest summit on each continent , a feat known as the seven summits and has finished 12 expeditionlength races in adventure racing.....
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