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
View of Mt. Waddington from the south, Sept. 2006
Summit of Mount Waddington as viewed from the northwest peak
Fritz Wiessner
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Fritz Wiessner was a German American pioneer of free climbing. Born in Dresden, Germany, he immigrated to New York City in 1929 and became a U.S. citizen in 1935. In 1939, he made one of the earliest
Mount Waddington
…Two climbers succeeded in reaching the northwest summit (first climbed by the Mundays) on a third attempt but proceeded no further. On July 4, 1936, Fritz Wiessner, Bill House, Elizabeth Woolsey and Alan Willcox reached the head of the Knight Inlet. For the next twelve days they ferried loads to their base camp…
Wiessner, age 86, on the Rupley Towers, Mount Lemmon, Arizona
Fritz Wiessner, age 81, climbing on the Rupley Towers, Mount Lemmon, Arizona, in 1981