Fred Beckey (1923–2017)
Forfatter af Cascade Alpine Guide Climbing and High Routes, Vol. 1: Columbia River to Stevens Pass
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Fred Beckey was born Wolfgang Beckey near Düsseldorf, Germany on January 14, 1923. He emigrated to Seattle with his family in 1925. He learned climbing techniques as a Boy Scout and in a Mountaineers course. At the age of 13, he and two friends reached the top of Mount Despair, a rugged 7,292-foot vis mere peak in the North Cascades that mountaineers had considered unclimbable. In 1942, he joined the wartime army's 10th Mountain Division, based in Colorado. He received a degree in business administration from the University of Washington in 1949. He became a mountaineer and author who was the first to take hundreds of routes to the summits of North America's tallest peaks in Alaska, the Canadian Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest in a seven-decade climbing career. He searched for unconquered summits and routes considered too difficult to climb. He often climbed 40 or 50 different peaks a year. His books included Climber's Guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains of Washington, Challenge of the North Cascades, Cascade Alpine Guide, Mountains of North America, Mount McKinley: Icy Crown of North America, Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range, and Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs. He died from congestive heart failure on October 30, 2017 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Fred Beckey
Cascade Alpine Guide Climbing and High Routes, Vol. 1: Columbia River to Stevens Pass (1973) 96 eksemplarer
Cascade Alpine Guide Climbing and High Routes, Vol. 2: Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass (1977) 68 eksemplarer
Cascade Alpine Guide Climbing and High Routes, Vol. 3: Rainy Pass to Fraser River (1981) 67 eksemplarer
Supplement of additional information and alternations to Climber's guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains of… 2 eksemplarer
Supplement to Guide to the Cascades 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Climber's Guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains of Washington by a Committee of the Cascade Section of the… (1961) — based on earlier edition by this author — 2 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Beckey, Friedrich Wolfgang
- Fødselsdato
- 1923-01-14
- Dødsdag
- 2017-10-30
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
Germany (birth) - Land (til kort)
- USA
- Fødested
- Düsseldorf, Germany
- Dødssted
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Bopæl
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Washington (BA, Business Administration)
- Erhverv
- mountaineer
author - Organisationer
- The Mountaineers (honorary member)
American Alpine Club (honorary member) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Mt. Beckey, named for Fred Beckey, is located in the Alaskan Range at North 62 degrees 52 minutes, West 152 degrees 15 minutes.
- Kort biografi
- A formidable alpine climber, Fred Beckey (1923-2017) is unofficially recognized as the all-time world-record holder for the number of first ascents credited to one man. Beckey's most famous climbing feat was his triple ascent of Alaska's Mounts McKinley, Deborah, and Hunter in 1954. His 3-volume Cascade Alpine Guide, published by The Mountaineers, is considered the definitive resource on the mountains located between the Columbia River and the Canadian border.
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Cascade Alpine Guide: Climbing and High Rout… af Fred Beckey
What Beckey says, goes. This is the best guidebook ever on climbing in the Cascade Range. I have done scores of his routes.
Beckey at his finest. I have climbed many of the routes he pioneered.
I not only read, but climbed scores of mountains detailed in this book. Beckey is an icon.
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