Elevation 2,525 m | ||
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First ascent August 22, 1964 by Dan Davis and John Holland Similar Buckner Mountain, Boston Peak, Goode Mountain, Luna Peak, Jack Mountain | ||
Mount Booker, with an elevation of 8,284 feet (2,525 m), is located in the North Cascades of Washington, about 1.5 miles SE of Mount Buckner, between Park Creek and Stehekin River.
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Map of Booker Mountain, Washington, USA
HistoryEdit
Landscape painter Abby Williams Hill, of Tacoma, Washington, was contracted by the Great Northern Railway Company to paint pictures of the North Cascades, and she first painted Mount Booker in 1903. At the time of Hill’s painting, the mountain had not yet been named; newspaper critics called it “No-name mountain.”
Abby Hill wrote to the National Geological Survey to determine the mountain’s name, and the agency offered her the opportunity to name it. She had previously traveled to visit Booker T. Washington (d. 1915), and she attended his lectures in Tuskegee, Alabama, in the fall of 1901. She was also very moved by her experiences with Jim Crow laws in the South, as well as by Washington’s lectures. As a result, Abby Hill named the mountain in honor of Booker T. Washington.
Climbing historyEdit
The first ascent of the Northeast face of Mt. Booker was completed by Dan Davis and John Holland on August 22, 1964