Willi Unsoeld
- Title
- Willi Unsoeld
- LC Subject
- Mountaineering Unsoeld, William Francis, 1926-1979
- Photographer
- Hosmer, Jim
- Description
- Willi Unsoeld exhibits a rappelling position. Unsoeld earned a BS in physics at Oregon State in 1951. He helped to establish the OSC Mountain Club. He taught religious studies at Oregon State in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1963 he became part of the first group of mountain climbers from the U.S. to scale Mt. Everest. Unsoeld died in an accident on Mt. Rainier in 1979.
- Work Type
- photographic prints
- Location
- Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 1950 circa
- Identifier
- P017:4200
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Rights Holder
- OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center
- Local Collection Name
- Alumni Relations Photographs, 1870-2003 (P 017)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University
- Is Version Of
- This image appears in "A School for the People: A Pictorial History of Oregon State University," page 304.
- Institution
- Oregon State University