“Norman Clyde was attracted to the Sierra Nevada Mountains
sometime after 1911 while in his mid-20s… Clyde spent more than
50 years perfecting his mental maps, locating crashed airplanes,
and rescuing lost souls and climbers in trouble - or retrieving
their bodies. Clyde’s name was legendary. Many climbers would
rank him second only to John Muir as an intimate pioneer of
places inaccessible and second to none as a climber… Clyde
climbed Mt. Whitney at least 50 times. Between 1914 and about
1940, he became the first climber to reach the tops of at least
126 peaks.”