| LC control no. | n 50006901 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Beckey, Fred, 1923-2017 |
| Variant(s) | Beckey, Fred W., 1923-2017 Beckey, Wolfgang, 1923-2017 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1923-01-14 |
| Death date | 2017-10-30 |
| Place of birth | Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| Place of death | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Mountaineering |
| Profession or occupation | Mountaineers |
| Found in | His Climber's guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, c1949. His Cascade alpine guide, 1981: t.p. (Fred Beckey) LC database, Oct. 31, 2017 (heading: Beckey, Fred W., 1921- ; usage: Fred Beckey) New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 31, 2017 (Fred Beckey; b. Wolfgang Beckey, Jan. 14, 1923, near Düsseldorf; emigrated with his family to Seattle, 1925; called himself Fred; d. Monday afternoon [Oct. 30, 2017], Seattle, aged 94; fabled mountaineer and author who was the first to take hundreds of routes to the summits of North America's tallest peaks in Alaska, the Canadian Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest in an audacious seven-decade climbing career) |
| Associated language | eng |
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