Section 02 · Peaks & Routes
Nine summits, plotted, and the years beside them
The alpine summits, the named ridges, and the first-ascent record from Liberty Bell to Glacier Peak.
Liberty Bell Mountain, 7,720 feet. The northeast buttress was first climbed in August 1946; Fred Beckey was twenty-two.
Photo: Washington Pass and Liberty Bell Mountain · Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Washington Pass and Liberty Bell Mountain · Wikimedia Commons
7 entries
Four Towers Above the Highway, and the Line Beckey Found in 1946
Beckey, Welsh and O’Neil, September 1946 — twenty-six years before the road.
Read →Mount Stuart's North Ridge as a Problem in Granite
Two thousand feet of granite, first climbed in 1956.
Read →Forbidden Peak and the West Ridge Record
The 1940 first ascent, and why the West Ridge is still the line.
Read →Rainier from the North: Liberty Ridge and the 1935 Line
The 1935 route up the mountain’s north face, and what it asks of a party.
Read →Shuksan: The Peak That Is Not a Volcano
Not a volcano, and the geology that explains the difference.
Read →Prusik Peak and the Name It Carries
A granite spire named for a knot, and the walk in that guards it.
Read →Glacier Peak: The Cascade Volcano Nobody Sees from a Road
The Cascade volcano no highway reaches, and its ascent record.
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