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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.
Jan 20, 2024 · Where is Barry Corbet’s Family Now? From what we can tell, Barry’s ex-wife Muffy has since remarried and taken up her husband’s last name to now go by Muffy Moore, but she does still seem to be based in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Sep 1, 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 and Jake Breitenbach were in the prime of youth, able to jog uphill while wearing a loaded pack. Corbet was solid and angular, yet gentle and graceful. Breitenbach was all sinewy muscle.
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 · Much of the power of the movie comes from excerpts from Corbet’s 1980 book, Options: Spinal Cord Injury and the Future, a how-to manual for thriving with an SCI that is based on his own experiences and those of SCI survivors across America.
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.
