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Barry Corbet (August 1, 1936 – December 18, 2004) was an American mountaineer, film-maker and author. He was a member of the 1963 American Mount Everest West Ridge Expedition, which was the first U.S. Team to climb Mount Everest.
Jul 5, 2013 · In the summer of 1955 two young climbers from the Pacific Northwest rested at an alpine oasis below the Grand Teton in Wyoming. Barry Corbet ’58 and Jake Breitenbach ’57 were in the prime of youth, able to jog uphill while wearing loaded packs. Corbet was solid and angular, yet gentle and graceful.
Jan 20, 2024 · Barry Corbet’s Family is Keeping His Legacy Alive By Individually Thriving Today. If there’s one thing absolutely nobody can deny thanks to mountaineer, filmmaker, and author James Barry Corbet, it’s that the life of those with spinal cord injuries is complex yet normal and human.
Sep 1, 2013 · Barry Corbet was a legendary mountaineer who summited Everest, made first ascents in Antarctica, and starred in ski films. He also became a paraplegic after a fall and became a disability advocate and editor of New Mobility magazine.
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Barry Corbet passed away on December 18, 2004. He is much missed. If you have memories or photographs of Barry which you would like to see posted to this site, or would like to correspond with the family in some other way, please send a note to "contact" at the domain "barrycorbet.com".
Jan 30, 2024 · Barry Corbet was a sit-skier and a New Mobility editor who wrote Options, a guide for people with spinal cord injuries, in 1980. His family has made the book available online for free after a documentary about his life was released.
In 1980, Barry Corbet published a book called “Options”– interlacing his own stories with those of spinal cord injury survivors from across the country. The book was a foundational piece of writing about disability, and what it’s like to live and thrive with spinal injury.
