• Turning 90: Approaching My Next Summit, and Still Stopping for the Flowers - Tom Choate

  • Sep 15 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Turning 90: Approaching My Next Summit, and Still Stopping for the Flowers - Tom Choate

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  • Tom Choate is a mountain climbing legend, former college biology professor with a Ph.D. from the University of Montana, who was a ski infantryman and served in a US Army intelligence and reconnaissance unit at Fort Richardson during the Korean War, and was the first ranger naturalist in Mt McKinley National Park (now Denali National Park). Before coming back to Alaska in the late ‘70s, Tom and his family lived in New Zealand; he spent four years doing Antarctic research on penguins and their predators and spent ten years in the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) teaching, enjoying climbs of Kilimanjaro and other outdoor activities in Africa, and launching expeditions from there to the Himalayas and the Andes. He has reached the peak of Denali multiple times, spanning five different decades, and was the oldest person to summit Denali at 78 in 2013.

    Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mx7a8ecc4qxkhcozq1fjz/TomsSlides.pdf?rlkey=8bda99v8rew004gqkljnq3cdd&dl=0
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