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The First Flag to Fly over Denali
Guest Curator Angela Linn examines the flag Robert Tatum made during the first ascent of Denali in 1913. Tatum used materials from the team’s gear — bits of silk, strips of cotton, even a shoelace. The flag was flown at the summit of Denali on June 7, 1913.
The artifact arrived at the museum last week, along with the letter from Hudson Stuck inviting Tatum to join the expedition.The flag was thought to have been lost, but Linn tracked it down through family members to Doug Tatum, the great grandnephew of the first ascent team member. The family had it professional conserved and mounted. It had been hanging in Doug’s office.
Four climbers reached the summit of Denali together: Stuck, Tatum, Walter Harper, and Harry Karstens. The museum will tell their stories in the special exhibit, Denali Legacy: 100 Years on the Mountain. It opens in May.
(via ladyinbluejeans)
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He must have been a hell of a trekker!
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Dhaulagiri first ascent - Peter Diener and Ernst Forrer, 13th May 1960.
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John Roskelley and Ngawang Sanden on Dhaulagiri Summit, May 12 1973.
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Behind the Great Pacific Iron Works store near Ventura Point is the small tin shed where Yvon Chouinard set up his blacksmith shop in 1966. The shed once housed Bob Cooper’s Australian Surf Shop and Morey-Pope’s shaping room. The location was ideal for everyone’s passion: surf and building the finest mountaineering gear in the winter, climb and sell the gear in the summer. Chouinard Equipment Company went on to redesign and improve virtually every tool used in mountaineering, from carabiners to crampons. In 1973, the company branched out to make outdoor clothing under the Patagonia label.
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Mountain Of All Storms
The journey that started an American subculture. In 1968, five friends Yvon Chouinard, Doug Thompkins, Chris Jones, Lito Tejeda Flores and Dick Dorworth left Ventura, California in a Ford Econoline van. Three and a half months and 16,500 miles later, they arrived at their destination Patagonia. Their first ascent of Fitz Roy’s Southwest Buttress the so-called ‘Californian Route’ was not the only upshot of the trip. Thompkins went on to found Esprit and The North Face, and Chouinard founded Patagonia, providing inspiration for the generations of dirt bags who would follow in their footsteps.
Winner of the Best Film Award at the 1972 Trento Film Festival.
Director/Producer: Doug Thompkins/Yvon Chouinard.
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The best down parka ever made.
Mine is to hot for anything less than minus figures.
Posted on January 18, 2013 via Sharevari with 10 notes
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a Kiwi mountaineer, explorer, philanthropist and all round badass.
‘Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.’
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Four mountaineers, two women and two men, on the Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, ca. 1925.
Posted on January 9, 2013 via The Roamer with 169 notes
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That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law.
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