Dolores LaChapelle

Dolores LaChapelle (née Greenwell) (July 4, 1926 – January 21, 2007) was an American mountaineer, skier, tai chi teacher, independent scholar, and leader in the Deep ecology movement.

In 1950, she made the first ski ascent of Mount Columbia,[2] the second highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, and also of Snow Dome, the hydrographic apex of the continent.

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She noted and cross-referenced every text in such a tight web of interrelated material that she would eventually include in her collection, over a dozen thick and hand-typed, three-ring binder compendiums linking it all together.

This rare body of research includes hundreds of biographical files chronicling a rich lifetime of mountain climbs, as she climbed all 14K (above 14,000 feet) mountains of Colorado Rockies by age 20, letter correspondence with authors and poets such as Gary Snyder and Art Goodtimes and her overlapping years married to pioneering avalanche and snow scientist Ed LaChapelle.