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  2. Lou Whittaker - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Dee Molenaar - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Willi Unsoeld - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. RMI Expeditions - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Sluiskin Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Sluiskin Mountain [3] is a prominent pair of summits located in Mount Rainier National Park in Pierce County of Washington state. It is situated northwest of Burroughs Mountain and is part of the Cascade Range. The higher rocky peak is known as The Chief (7026 ft), and the second peak to the west is known as The Squaw (6960+ ft). [4]

  7. Meridian woman ‘craves’ adventure. She’ll climb Everest on ...

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    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 ...

  8. Melissa Arnot - Wikipedia

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    After college, she began living out of her car to save money and climb mountains. She first climbed Mount Rainier in 2001 and called it a "watershed moment". Arnot began teaching wilderness medicine in 2002 and began guiding on Mount Rainier with Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. in 2004. By 2006 she was a lead guide. [4]

  9. Hiker made famous in 2020 rescue from Mt. Rainer now ... - AOL

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    He was climbing Mt Rainier in Washington when he was caught in whiteout conditions. Rescuers found him and transported him to an emergency room, but he died for 45 minutes while in there before ...