Legendary climber Beckey dies at age 94
Fred Beckey
By Phuong Le, Associated Press
Legendary mountain climber Fred Beckey, who wrote dozens of books and is credited with notching more first ascents than any other American mountaineer, has died. He was 94.
Megan Bond, a close friend who managed his affairs, told the Associated Press that Beckey died of natural causes in her Seattle home Monday.
“He was an extraordinary mountaineer. He also had a personality and humor that almost dwarfed the mountains around him,” Bond said. “He was a brilliant writer. He was a scholar. He lived based on what was important to him, and he was not going to sell out.”
Beckey gave a talk in South Lake Tahoe in 2009.