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Luther Gerald "Lute" Jerstad (1936 – 31 October 1998) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide who was a member of the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition. He reached the summit of Mount Everest by the South Col route on May 22, 1963 with Barry Bishop .
There would be two separate attempts up different routes on the same day, meeting at the summit, and descending together. Bishop wrote "Lute Jerstad & I have the nod & we'll move up the 11th for an 'all or nothing' try on the 18th. Plans call for Unsoeld & Hornbein to try for top the same day – via the W. Ridge. Talk about a long shot!". [53]
Barry Bishop, [6] Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein on May 22, 1963, on the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition [7] Nawang Gombu and eight others Indian Everest Expedition 1965 on May 20, 1965
They huddled together until 4:00 a.m. and started down again, meeting expedition members carrying extra tanks of oxygen. They made it to camp to find Unsoeld’s feet hard and frostbitten. Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad also suffered from frostbite and Bishop and Unsoeld lost toes as a result.
In the late 1950s Unsoeld was a leading climbing guide in the Grand Teton Mountains.He climbed Mt. Rainier over 200 times. [6]Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein ascended Everest's difficult West Ridge route in May 1963, on a National Geographic Society sponsored expedition while Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad followed Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s South Col route established during their 1953 climb.
Barry Chapman Bishop (January 13, 1932 – September 24, 1994 [1]) 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 American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, the first American team to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963.
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Dyhrenfurth received a permit from the Nepalese authorities on May 10, 1961, for an American expedition to climb Mount Everest in the spring of 1963. [2] He recruited a team of climbers that included Jake Breitenbach, Jim Whittaker, Willi Unsoeld, Lute Jerstad, Tom Hornbein, Dave Dingman and Barry Bishop.