Lou Whittaker, Memoirs of a Mountain Guide

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Published by The Mountaineers Seattle, 1994, 1st Edition, D/w, Fine.   The autobiography of one of America’s most respected climbers for more than four decades.  Lou Whittaker (1929-2024) began his mountaineering career as a teenager in the Pacific Northwest, climbing in the Olympic and Cascade mountains with his twin brother Jim, graduating to expeditions to formidable peaks in Alaska, the Himalaya and the Karakorum.  Lou’s name is synonymous with Mount Rainier, where he established Rainier Mountaineering Inc, trained generations of mountain guides and guided thousands of clients to the summit since his own first ascent as a teenager.