Fred Beckey
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Friedrich Wolfgang Beckey, known as Fred Beckey, was an American rock climber, mountaineer and book author, who in seven decades of climbing achieved hundreds of first ascents of some of the tallest p
Fred Beckey, circa 1990
Fred Beckey (right) in Alaska, 2005
Fred Beckey in 2012
Fred Beckey in a climbing gym in 2014
Mount Waddington
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Mount Waddington, once known as Mystery Mountain, is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Although it is lower than Mount Fairweather and Mount Quincy Adams, which stra
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…Mount Despair in the North Cascades, which was considered unclimbable at the time. In 1942, the teenage Beckey brothers snatched a second ascent of Mount Waddington, which was then considered the most difficult climb in North America. Beckey followed that with many more first ascents of summits in the Olympic and…
View of Mt. Waddington from the south, Sept. 2006
Summit of Mount Waddington as viewed from the northwest peak