Barry Bishop

Barry Chapman Bishop (born January 13, 1932 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † September 24, 1994 in Pocatello , Idaho ) was an American mountaineer . He is one of the first Americans to successfully climb Mount Everest .

Life

Bishop was a lieutenant in the United States Air Force . From 1956 to 1957 he took part in an Argentine Antarctic expedition and was a member of the staff of the United States Antarctic Program from 1958 to 1959 .

During an expedition in the spring of 1961 led by Edmund Hillary , Barry Bishop, together with Wally Romanes, Michael Gill (New Zealand) and the British Michael Ward, made the first ascent of the 6,856 m high Ama Dablam . Two years later, in 1963, Barry Bishop was a photographer for National Geographics on the first successful American expedition to Mount Everest under the direction of Norman Dyhrenfurth . After the first American, James Whittaker , climbed the summit on May 1, 1963, Bishop, in a rope team with Lute Jerstad, was the first citizen of Ohio to reach the summit on May 22nd via the normal route. On the descent, Bishop and Jerstad joined their expedition colleagues Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein , who on the same day were the first people to cross Mt. Everest. An emergency bivouac without a tent at extremely low temperatures cost Barry Bishop all of his toes and some of his fingertips due to frostbite.

After returning to the USA, all expedition participants were honored with the Hubbard Medal in July 1963 by President John F. Kennedy . After completing a degree in geography, Bishop continued to work as a journalist and photographer for the National Geographic Society . Shortly after he retired, Barry Bishop was killed in a car accident on September 24, 1994 near Pocatello, Idaho. Mount Bishop in Antarctica is named in his honor .

On May 9, 1994, Barry's son Brent Bishop had also conquered Mount Everest.

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Short biography

Individual evidence

^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 168 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Bishop, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bishoph, Barry Chapman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American extreme mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1994
Place of death	Pocatello , Idaho

[1] John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 168 (English).