Tom Frost

Tom Frost (1936 to 2018) was an American rock climber known for big wall first ascents in Yosemite Valley, and also a photographer and climbing equipment manufacturer. A mechanical engineering graduate of Stanford University, he made the second ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in 1960 and, in 1961, with Royal Robbins and Chuck Pratt, the first ascent of the Salathe Wall, then the hardest big wall climb in the world. In 1964 he joined Robbins, Pratt and Yvon Chouinard on the first ascent of the North America Wall. He also made first ascents in the Tetons and the Himalaya, including Kangtega in 1963, and photographed many of his own major climbs.