FILE - In this July 26, 2016, file photo, Fred Beckey, the legendary mountain climber, visits with guests during a promotional event for "Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey," an upcoming documentary ...

The year was probably 1978 and Fred Beckey was working on his massively updated, three-volume Cascade Climbing Guide series. The year before I had started Liberty Bell Alpine Tours, a climbing school ...

Fred Beckey, widely hailed as North America’s most prolific climber and mountaineer, died Monday in the Seattle home of his friend and partner, Megan Bond. He was 94. “We were planning another trip to ...

When climbers in the North Cascades complete what they believe to be a new route, they write to Fred Beckey. They write because they think they’ve done something that Beckey did over and over and over ...

, a legend among Pacific Northwest mountaineers, for a lecture and photo presentation. The show is scheduled Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the school's Cabel Auditorium, 8825 S.W. Barnes Road. It begins at ...

, a legend among Pacific Northwest mountaineers, for a lecture and photo presentation. The show is scheduled Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the school's Cabel Auditorium, 8825 S.W. Barnes Road. It begins at ...

Fred Beckey, a fabled mountaineer and author who was the first to take hundreds of routes to the summits of North America's tallest peaks in Alaska, the Canadian Rockies and the Pacific Northwest in ...

If you’ve ever thumbed through a Cascades climbing guidebook, you’ve no doubt seen the name Fred Beckey, who earned his ubiquity by being the first to climb dozens, if not hundreds, of peaks near and ...

Reporting from Seattle — 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.