Tom Hornbein

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Name: Tom Hornbein

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

OSU celebrates Everest legacy

, professor Willi Unsoeld made history with audacious ascentFifty years ago today, Willi Unsoeld unfurled the banner of the Oregon State College Mountain Club on the summit of Mount Everest.Unsoeld, an Oregon State professor of religion and philosophy ... [Published Corvallis Gazette-Times - May 22 2013]

Entities: Willi Unsoeld, Tom Hornbein, Oregon State University, Jon Krakauer, Leadership

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Celebrating 35 years of indomitable spirit

There are a couple different versions of Mountainfilms origin story, but the prevailing lore goes like this:In the late 70s, Lito Tejada-Flores, a Telluride skier, climber and traveler, made the now-classic adventure film, Fitzroy about a South American ... [Published Telluride Daily Planet - May 22 2013]

Entities: Trento (Italy), Mountainfilm in Telluride, John Dau, Hydraulic Fracturing

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 3 reports

Into the Vast Unknown

Charley Mace climbing the West Shoulder Headwall from Camp 2/Advanced Base Camp. Photo courtesy Jake Norton for Eddie Bauer[Broughton Coburn's The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest —to be released on the 50th anniversary of the historic ... [Published Climbing Magazine - May 18 2013]

Entities: Tom Hornbein, Willi Unsoeld, Jim Whittaker, Oxygen, Nawang Gombu

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Everest veterans see lessons through 50-year lens

A veteran of the 1963 American Everest Expedition returned Monday to his roots in the Tetons and closed a circle that was half a century in the making. Former Teton climbing guide Dick Pownall told a rapt audience of about 400 at a forum how he was roped ... [Published Jackson Hole News - May 15 2013]

Entities: Tom Hornbein, Jim Whittaker, Phil Powers, Willi Unsoeld

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Learning Heaps: An Aussie Intern at Climbing

Living in the U.S. takes some getting used to—people talk funny, drive on the wrong side of the road, and the light switches are upside down. But I’m willing to overlook those minor drawbacks because the mountains are stunning, desert camping is a blast, ... [Published Climbing Magazine - May 14 2013]

Entities: Tom Hornbein, Lynn Hill, Jim Whittaker, John Keller

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Mountainfilm to Celebrate 50 Years of Americans on Everest

Whittaker and Hornbein Will Be GuestsTELLURIDE – The recent, shocking, news of a fight high on Mount Everest between Western climbers and Sherpas, has refocused attention on the world’s highest mountain in the weeks preceding Mountainfilm’s celebration ... [Published Telluride Watch - May 13 2013]

Entities: Tom Hornbein, Jim Whittaker, Willi Unsoeld, Eddie Bauer, Tenzing Norgay

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Mt. Everest: 50 Years Later

This May is the 50th anniversary of both the first American ascent on Mt. Everest and the first ascent of the West Ridge (by Americans). Nat Geo commemorates by bringing together prominent Everest climbers, including Tom Hornbein, Norman Dyhrenfurth, ... [Published Climbing Magazine - May 03 2013]

Entities: Tom Hornbein, Jim Whittaker, Evolution

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

A Kennedy, a governor, a Whittaker: Saluting Americans on Everest

The Mountaineers threw a big-scale celebration of Americans’ first climb of the world’s tallest peak on Saturday night, with an autographed ice axe auctioned for $5,000, a lifetime achievement award to Big Jim Whittaker — first U.S. climber to reach the ... [Published seattlepi.com - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Jim Whittaker, Robert Kennedy, Tom Hornbein, Willi Unsoeld

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