The US has produced an enviable glut of mountaineering talent down the years. With the great peaks of the Rockies and the big walls of the west as their training ground, American mountaineers have taken their skills to the Greater Ranges with aplomb throughout history – championing the fast and light approaches that would later come to define the cutting edge of the pursuit.
Yes, from trailblazers of female mountaineering, like Fanny Bullock Workman and Arlene Blum, to pioneering innovators like Jeff Lowe or the prolific peak-bagging machine that is Ed Viesturs, America has produced some of the world’s greatest mountaineers. We asked one of our mountaineering experts to compile a selection of the legendary characters who’ve graced the mountains over the last 150 years.
