In 2010, Buz Randall was working to preserve the photographs that he originally took during the 1961 Seattle Mountaineers Summer Expedition to Mount Robson. As Buz reorganized his color slides and made new electronic copies of images that were nearly 50 years old, he reminisced about his father, Al Randall, the interesting people who took part in the expedition, and the difficult climb that they were able to complete. In conjunction with more than forty color photographs, this book is a record of these important recollections and an exciting piece of mountaineering history associated with Mount Robson.

In 1889 Washington's then governor, Elisha Ferry, called on men of adventure to cross the Olympic Mountains, a range shrouded in mystery. The Seattle Press, the state's primary newspaper, stepped up to the challenge, sponsoring the Press Expedition. And soon departed a band of men into the mountains during one of the worst winters in recorded history...

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