Barry Bishop (mountaineer)

Barry Chapman Bishop was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar who lived from 13 January 1932 to 24 September 1994. With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein he was a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, the first American team to summit Everest, on 22 May 1963. He reached the summit by the South Col route with Lute Jerstad, and they were the second and third Americans to stand on top. Earlier first ascents included the West Buttress route on Denali in 1951 and the south west ridge of Ama Dablam in 1961. He worked for the National Geographic Society from 1959 until his retirement in 1994 and was killed in an automobile accident near Pocatello, Idaho, that year.