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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.
5 Jul 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.
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".
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.
30 Jan 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.
The stories of viral sit-skier Trevor Kennison and alpinist Barry Corbet shape this documentary about the history of adaptive athletes in extreme sports. Watch trailers & learn more.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the skiing world, the namesake of Corbet’s Couloir, Barry Corbet, had been shaping Trevor’s path since the day he was hurt. An intrepid skier, mountaineer, explorer, filmmaker, and Jackson Hole legend, Barry broke his back in a helicopter crash in 1968.
