Mountainous Terrain

I was never a team sport individual, especially in high school, but was fortunate to have a geometry teacher who taught a climbing course after school. His name was Joe Wilcox. Joe had some notoriety as the leader of an ill fated expedition to Denali, Alaska in the 1960s. Many deaths and controversy resulted in his writing of the book “White Winds” in his own defense after the publication of “The Hall of the Mountain Kings” which was very critical of the expedition. Joe Wilcox was an inspiration and set me on a life time of experiences and travels in the mountainous terrain of the world. Grandview, Washington