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Pyramid Peak is a 6,937-foot (2,114-metre) mountain summit located in Mount Rainier National Park in Pierce County of Washington state. [3] It is part of the Cascade Range and overlooks Indian Henry's Hunting Ground.
RMI Expeditions, also known as Rainier Mountaineering Inc. (RMI), is a mountain guide company based in Ashford, Washington founded in 1969 by Jerry Lynch and Lou Whittaker. It leads mountaineering, ski mountaineering, and ice climbing trips on Mount Rainier and the Seven Summits .
Molenaar worked as a park ranger and mountain guide in Mount Rainier National Park, climbing the mountain over 50 times as a guide and on personal trips, via more than a dozen different routes including three first ascents. [4] He participated in the 1946 second ascent of Mount Saint Elias in Alaska.
Mount Rainier is an active volcano. With 28 major glaciers, it’s also the “most glaciated peak” in the contiguous U.S. and the tallest peak in the Cascade Range, according to the park.
Visitors to Mount Rainier and other national parks will not be charged an entrance fee on Veterans Day weekend, Nov. 11 and 12. File/The News Tribute How to comment on timed entry
Lou Whittaker was born in Seattle, Washington, on February 10, 1929. [3] He and his twin brother Jim began climbing mountains at age 12. The Whittakers completed their first summit of Mount Rainier at age 16 and had climbed all of the major peaks in Washington by age 18.
When a friend mentioned climbing Mount Rainier, a 14,000-foot peak in Washington, Steinwald started researching. She asked friend and former colleague J Miller, who has mountain climbing ...
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.