TETON CLIMBING HISTORY: THE SUMMIT REGISTER ARCHIVE
This site contains a collection of digital images of the
Grand Teton National Park Summit Register Archive. The
summit registers were maintained from about the late-1920s
into the 1980s and they form a unique repository of Teton
climbing history.
This collection is arranged by chronological order under
the specific peak name. It is a complete record of all the
entries that were preserved. Although a number of records
have been lost or destroyed, it is generally true that any
missing years or gaps in the sequence occurred because the
entries never existed in the first place. For example,
early season climbs often went unrecorded because the
registers were buried in snow.
The images of the summit registers were made by Paul Horton
as part of a project to organize the original pages and
preserve them in archival sleeves. The collection is kept
at Park Headquarters at Moose, Wyoming. Its existence is
due to the ongoing efforts of generations of Grand Teton
National Park Rangers and other Teton mountaineers. In
particular, Leigh Ortenburger performed a substantial
amount of voluntary archive work in past years. Rangers Dan
Burgette and Renny Jackson provided considerable aid to
this preservation project.
Paul Horton
2007
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