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thE original EddiE bauEr Sport Shop eddie bauer opens his original Seattle sport shop, which expands six years later from just flies and tackle into a complete outdoor gear supplier. His shop quickly becomes the premier outfitter for hunting and fishing trips throughout the Pacific Northwest.

1938 thE original thE glaciEr priESt

outFoutFitt Exp father bernard Hubbard, “the Glacier Priest,” embarks on another of his famous 31 scientific explorations to Alaska and the Arctic. Hubbard later endorses eddie bauer down gear, including the quilted, down-filled Yukon Parka, eddie bauer’s Equipping best-selling jacket for more than three decades.

1945 AdvEnturE alaSka outFitting eddie bauer begins selling his down products via a new mail-order catalog and soon becomes the premier American outfitter for hunting, fishing, flying and adventure travel expeditions to remote trAvEl destinations such as Alaska and the Yukon. for ninE dEcAdEs Since the beginning, Eddie Bauer has focused on adventure. From Edi our founding as a Seattle hunting and fishing shop through our decades outfitting expeditions to the world’s highest peaks to our modern-day First Ascent achievements, the Eddie Bauer brand has traveled to the most remote and challenging corners of our world. In each decade of our existence, we have outfitted adventure, disco- 1953

very and travel to the edge of the grid and the ends of the earth. thE inca highway ExpEdition Inca Highway expedition, led by Victor von Hagen and Our roots in exploration run deep. In the 1940s we ﬂew with Alaska outfitted by eddie bauer, unearths large portions of

itt the 10,000-mile Inca Highway network on an archaeo- airmen opening the Last Frontier and journeyed with Father logical expedition to South America, a groundbreaking effort chronicled in Highway of the Sun. Bernard Hubbard on his Arctic anthropological expeditions to the frozen tundra of our continent’s most northern reaches. Continuing 1963

on this heading, we backed Victor von Hagen’s Inca Highway Expe- FirSt amErican SummitS mt. EvErESt Jim Whittaker, along with Nawang Gombu, dition in 1953, which traveled back through time, archaeologically, becomes the first American to summit Mt. everest on the eddie bauer-outfitted American Mt.

t to unearth portions of the 10,000-mile Inca Highway network that everest expedition. Lute Jerstad and barry bishop also gain the summit, as do tom Hornbein and moved goods, armies and empires the entire length of the South Willi unsoeld, who make the first ascent of the West Ridge route. American continent long before European contact. ion

1977 In 1963, the brand climbed to the roof of the world when Jim FirSt aScEnt oF grEat trango towEr Er Whittaker became the fi rst American to summit Mt. Everest. In John Roskelley, outfitted in eddie bauer gear, teams up with Galen Rowell and company in the first ascent 1966, we participated in the American Antarctic Mountaineering of the Great trango tower, featuring the world’s tallest cliffs and the tallest nearly vertical drop. Expedition, a National Geographic Society and American Alpine Club undertaking where a 10-man team led by Nicholas Clinch and 1984 including John Evans and Barry Corbet completed successful fi rst EddiE bauEr miSSiSSippi rivEr challEngE Revisiting the routes of the early voyagers, Verlen ascents of Mt. Vinson, Mt. Tyree, Mt. Gardner and Mt. Shinn. In 1977, kruger and Valerie fons set the speed record for canoeing the length of the Mississippi in 23 days, 10 we backed John Roskelley as he partnered with alpine legends such hours and 20 minutes from the headwaters to the delta. as Galen Rowell to complete the fi rst successful ascent of the Great 1998 Trango Tower. And from 1978 to 1983, we traveled to the Arctic on dEEdEE JonrowE SEtS iditarod rEcord fi ve separate epics, supporting each one of the American Exploratory Legendary Alaskan musher DeeDee Jonrowe sets the women’s speed record, competing in one of thirteen Arctic Mountaineering Expeditions on their journeys to remote consecutive races outfitted in eddie bauer gear. frozen locations from Ellesmere Island to the Northwest Passage. This trip list is just a small sampling of the explorations of our brand.

® And digging back into our archives, it’s clear that, for all the successful objectives reached, the experience for each explorer was even more about the process of getting there. During the past three years, we have re-embraced this wanderlust by returning to the expedition extremes of Everest, Alaska and Antarctica, but we have also revisited adventure by putting up new routes in the Wadi Rum with Caroline George, running un-kayaked waterfalls in the Brazilian Amazon with Ben Stookesberry, and embarking on a never ticked challenge of summiting the three highest peaks on all seven continents with Jake Norton. 2009 thE launch oF FirSt aScEnt Yet at the top of our trip list in 2011 was Jon Turk and Erik Boomer’s eddie bauer returns to everest, where it launches its new first Ascent line with a team of the world’s ﬁ rst human-powered circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island, a 1,485- leading guides, including ed Viesturs, the first American to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter mile loop made more epic by massive ice ﬂ oes, brutal frostbite peaks without supplemental oxygen. and angry, hungry polar bears. The efforts of these modern-day Arctic explorers, who circled the world’s tenth largest island by our crEEd 2011 foot, ski and kayak in 104 days, led to a nomination for National to givE you Such outStanding Quality, valuE, SErvicE bE FirSt: EllESmErE Geographic’s adventurers of the year. For them, it was an amazing be first-supported and eddie bauer-outfitted explorers Jon turk and erik boomer complete the 1,485-mile and guarantEE that wE circumnavigation of ellesmere Island by foot, ski and kayak, earning them a nomination as National feat that deserves individual recognition, but for Eddie Bauer it is may bE worthy oF your Geographic’s adventurers of the year. another chapter in a long lineage of adventure travel narrative. Yet high EStEEm.™ CoVeR PHotoGRAPH: Jim Surette rather than collecting dust on our timeline, we hope the stories our guarantEE chronicled in this book will inspire you to head out, hit the road and EvEry itEm wE SEll will givE you complEtE SatiSFaction personally experience the transformative power of adventure. or you may rEturn it For a Full rEFund.™

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the adventure.” —Caroline GeorGe

a pilgrimage to the roots of adventure

A thirst for travel is a trait often passed down through generations. Egypt and Libya to the protests that touched Syria and Jordan. For Caroline George, it was a family climbing trip in 1987 that ﬁrst introduced her to the exotic sights, scenes and smells of both Yet the Arab Spring that dominated Al Jazeera broadcasts was adventure travel and the Jordanian desert landscape of the Wadi nowhere to be found in the Jordanian desert. George and her Rum. Back then, the area was famous more as having been the hide- climbing partners instead experienced slot-canyon approaches, out and headquarters of Lawrence of Arabia during the Great Arab beautiful crack climbs, sandstorms, and a nomadic culture that has Revolt, and the only established routes were the exposed scrambles remained strong for centuries. Their climbs included local sandstone local Bedouins used to collect medicinal plants and hunt ibex. But the classics such as The Beauty and The Holy War, a 400-meter, 5.12b, towering sandstone formations began attracting modern climbers 12-pitch Wadi Rum testpiece. The highlight, however, was pioneering drawn to an adventure destination not far from the ancient ruins of a new 5.11b, 400-meter, 5-pitch route that incorporated natural > Caroline George adventure traveling on Petra, a wonder of the world from the sixth century BC. chimneys, beautiful traverses, and a tough rappel in full darkness. the first ascent of Uprising in the Times have changed, even in the Wadi Rum, but last spring Caroline To celebrate their ﬁrst ascent, they climbed Jebel Khazali via an Wadi rum, Jordan. George was drawn back on a pilgrimage to revisit a place that has ancestral Bedouin route, ate a traditional meal of mensaf in

PhotoGraPher: Jim Surette rating: 5.11b, 400m, 5-pitch. since become a protected natural reserve and an emerging Mecca for segregated Bedouin tents, and named the new route Uprising in adventure tourism. Her husband Adam George, as well as climbers honor of the current events sweeping the Middle East. Sarah Garlick and Jim Surette, joined her on the trip to revisit the climbing potential of the area. For Caroline, the journey was personal But, like all memorable journeys, it was immersion into a place but the greater context was popular revolution, as demonstrations and time that made the experience in Jordan more than just a for democracy spread across the region from the revolts in Tunisia, climbing trip.

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SUMMIT TOOK SHORT ASCENT BREAK HERE. STRAIGHTFORWARD SKIING AROUND LARGE CREVASSES TO THIS POINT. ASCENT VIA THE GIBRALTAR LEDGES ROUTE. WE STOPPED TO TAKE ENTERED THE “ICE CLIFF” ZONE HERE. NO REAL RETREAT PICTURES THAT WERE USED TO FIND OPTION. ALSO, ANY MISSTEP WOULD ABSOLUTELY RESULT OUR WAY ON THE DESCENT. IN A FALL OFF THE ICE CLIFF AND DEATH.

NISQUALLY NISQUALLY ICE CLIFF NISQUALLY CLEAVER SETH WATERFALL ICE FALL ASCENT SKI TRICKY ROUTE PLOTTING ALONG HERE. ALSO ROUTE STEEP WITH ICY SNOW. WE HAD TO STOP AND USE THE PICS WE HAD TAKEN ON THE ASCENT BY LOOKING IN THE DISPLAY ON MY CAMERA. MY FRIENDS AND I HAD NEVER SEEN A CONTINUOUS LINE OF SNOW THROUGH THE CLIFFS HERE BEFORE THIS PAST SEASON.

CROSSED THE BERGSCHRUND HERE. HEAVILY CREVASSED SECTION. IT FORCED US TO EXIT ONTO THE MUIR SNOWFIELD. RA

RE-ENTERED THE NISQUALLY MORE POWDER SKIING. THE SNOW WAS SO GOOD, WE DECIDED TO GLACIER HERE. DROP BELOW THE ELEVATION OF THE PARKING LOT, ALL THE WAY TO THE NISQUALLY BRIDGE. WE KNEW IT COULD MEAN A LONG WAIT TO HITCH BACK, BUT THE DAY WAS GOING TOO WELL TO WORRY. BUT OUR LUCK WAS GOOD ALL DAY, AND WE WAITED ALL OF LEARN ABOUT SETH IN HIS GUIDE

I 15 SECONDS BEFORE GETTING A RIDE BACK TO THE CAR. SPOTLIGHT NI DROPPING IN ON AN UNREPEATABLE ICE CLIFF LINE

With its dramatic profi le and spiritual presence, 14,411-foot Mt. Rainier evolution of the ski-mountaineering discipline. was a Northwest icon long before it was fi rst climbed in 1870. The alpine This past season, First Ascent guide Seth Waterfall etched his name and aesthetics are unmatched, but it’s the challenge of reaching the summit his turns onto that big-line list with fellow RMI guides Andy Bond and by overcoming massive glacial volume, harsh coastal weather, and 9,000 Tyler Jones. On April 22, with the aid of a deep La Niña snowpack, the feet of volcanic relief from Paradise to Columbia Crest that has made this trio completed the fi rst ski descent of the Nisqually Ice Cliff: a lifetime line mass of ice and rock one of America’s most classic climbs. The pull is still down an established ice-climbing route, with 3,000 vertical feet of heads- so strong that each season, thousands of climbers test themselves on ER the summit routes of Mt. Rainier, many under the watchful eye of guiding up exposure and a pitch hitting 50 degrees steep. They exited onto the operations, such as Rainier Mountaineering Incorporated. Muir Snowfi eld, then continued downward to the Nisqually Bridge, tallying 11,000 vertical feet of total turns in one single run. But Rainier is more than just a climb. Since the fi rst ski descent of the Emmons Glacier in 1939, the upper elevations of the mountain have also The skiing itself was an incredible achievement, but what punctuates the been a proving ground for a select class of ski-mountaineers: Bill Briggs story is a convergence of geologic forces that caused the entire cliff to and the Whittakers skiing the Ingraham Glacier in 1961; Chris Landry’s jaw- cleave and crumble in a giant once-in-a-decade rockfall only three weeks dropping Liberty Ridge line in 1980; Sky Sjue’s Central Mowich Face rip in later—guaranteeing that this or the burly fi rst descent won’t ever be repeated. 2005. The timeline of impressive fi rst descents on Rainier represents an Above is the breakdown of how they skied what amounts to one big line.

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their Vinson guide for fi ve seasons and would spend the summer down there and climb Vinson fi ve or even six times in a season—that’s how I padded my numbers. MICRO-GRID BACKER I’ve also done the Shackleton Traverse a number Facilitates of years. I fi rst started trying to do it in ’97, I effi cient wicking believe, going by ship to the island of South Georgia, which is an Antarctic island and sits in the Antarctic convergence and the currents that HAND surround the continent. POCKETS Storage for Once you’ve gotten onto these glaciers and gone critical items across a pass or two, there is nobody that can get you out of that one, except you. There are no helicopters, there is no rescue service—you’re either going to get across the island and get the ship pickup or you’re going to learn to live on penguins. 4> How does it feel retracing the foot- steps of the early explorers? I don’t think you can intelligently go to Antarctica without wondering about the pioneering efforts down there, without learning more about the people that fi rst ventured down there and reached the South Pole and tried to get across the continent. It’s fascinating for me; just like on Everest it’s fascinating being on the fi rst or second step on the Northeast Ridge and trying to imagine what ADJUSTABLE Mallory thought of them; or to be on the Hillary CUFFS Step and trying to imagine Tenzing Norgay and Gusseted to Sir Edmund Hillary or Jim Whittaker and Nawang accommodate Gombu coming to those obstacles. But to be on work or shell Antarctica or South Georgia and to try and fi gure gloves out the exact route that Shackleton, Worsley and Crean took, and to read their accounts of the crossing while you, yourself, are trying to do the crossing and trying to see it through their eyes is very cool.

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> Peter Whittaker, Melissa Arnot, Ed Viesturs and Seth Waterfall on

single-ﬁle approach through the Khumbu Icefall on Everest. PhotogrAPhEr: Jake Norton

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> Melissa Arnot testing her lungs to the limit on Makalu with the Alchemist pack prototype. PhotogrAPher: David Morton

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chall antarctica Vinson Massif, antarctica 16,066 ft / 4,897 m Winter 2011 C Mount tyree, antarctica 15,919 ft / 4,852 m Winter 2013 Mount shinn, antarctica 15,288 ft / 4,660 m Winter 2013

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> The Surﬁng 28 States ﬁlm crew gets rad between Indian swells in

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the adventure Packing [women’s] > Melissa Arnot making some tough decisions in list Namche Bazaar in the Khumbu Valley. PhotogrAPher: Cory richards

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> Seth Waterfall testing the air at 17,000 feet, Everest base camp, Nepal.

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> Melissa Arnot soaking in decades of wisdom during a rest day in kathmandu, nepal.

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