Kenneth Arnold

Kenneth Arnold

male, deceased (1984)
Sebeka, UFO sightings, U.S. Air Force, crescent, saucer, mirage…mountrainier
Kenneth A. Arnold (born March 29, 1915 in Sebeka, Minnesota; died January 16 1984 in Bellevue, Washington) was an American businessman and pilot....
Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs

male, 50 years old
mountaineer, Kanchenjunga, Broad Peak, Summiter of Mount Everest, Eight-thousander, From Rockford, Illinois…mount everest, mountrainier, former Mt. Rainier climbing guide
Ed Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is the first American, and 12th person overall, to...
Lou Whittaker

Lou Whittaker

male, 80 years old
twin, climbing, Rainier Base Camp, Twins, jim, Mountain climber…mount rainier national park, mountrainier
Lou Whittaker (born in 1929) is a higher-altitude and glacier-travel guide. Whittaker and his twin brother Jim were born and raised in Seattle....
Peter Rainier

Peter Rainier

male, deceased (1808)
Royal Navy admiral, British, monarch, military rank, suffolk, burford…mountrainier
Peter Rainier, Jr. (1741-April 7, 1808) was a British naval leader. Rainier was born in England, the grandson of Daniel Regnier, a Huguenot...
Hazard Stevens

Hazard Stevens

male, deceased (1918)
from Washington, United States Army general, american civil war, congressional medal of honor, mountrainier, Union Army
General Hazard Stevens (1842-1918) was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Congressional Medal of...

P.B. van Trump

male, deceased (1916)
sierra club, Conservationist, kenyon college, American, environmentalist, mountrainier…mount rainier national park
Philemon Beecher Van Trump (1839-1916), also known as P.B. Van Trump, was a pioneering mountaineer and writer who lived in Washington, United...
Edmond S. Meany

Edmond S. Meany

male, deceased (1935)
University of Washington, historian, University of Washington alumni, Mount Meany, American, Washington Historical Quarterly…mountrainier
Edmond S. Meany (1862-1935) was a professor of botany and history at the University of Washington and a UW alumnus, having graduated as the...
Willi Unsoeld

Willi Unsoeld

male, deceased (1979)
mount everest, outward bound, American, legacy, mountrainier, the evergreen state college
Willi Unsoeld (October 25, 1926 - March 4, 1979) was an American climber who, along with Tom Hornbein, were members of the first American...
Otto Lang

Otto Lang

male, deceased (2006)
ski instructor, death from cardiovascular disease, Mount Baker, film producer, ski, 5 Fingers…mountrainier, mount hood
Otto Lang, born in Tešanj, Austria-Hungary, was a skier and pioneer ski instructor in the United States. He founded ski schools on Mount Rainier, M...

Victor R. Ramirez

male, 34 years old
el salvador, Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Salvadoran American, mountrainier, san salvador, Frostburg State University alumni
Victor R. Ramirez is the current State Delegate for District 47 in Prince George's County, Maryland. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in...