Peter Whittaker

Andrea Gabbard, one of the most influential and prolific outdoor industry trade writers, who not only retold stories of others, but lived them herself, died on July 15 after a fall. She was 71. Gabbard got her start as a writer after two of her colleagues at Pacific Mutual Life ...read more

Peter Whittaker was just 12 years old when he first climbed Mount Rainier. Back then, tweens were still a rarity on Washington’s 14,411-foot summit, yet Whittaker’s climb didn’t take the local mountaineering community by surprise. The son of legendary alpinist Lou Whittaker, who ...read more