Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest: Rescue, Safety & Training

Bauer was a pioneer climber of Mt. Rainier and Mt. Goode. He was the founder of the Mountaineers Climbing Course and helped establish the Mountain Rescue Council. His papers include correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, ephemera, and seven oversize poster boards with newspaper clippings, photographs, and other ephemera related to the Mountain Rescue Council.

This collection includes accident reports, incoming correspondence, brochures, and training manuals, as well as clippings about Daiber and his wife, Matie's, leadership in The Mountain Rescue Council.

Mountain Safety Research Inc. is a Seattle camping equipment firm that encourages the conservation of nature. Materials in this collection include mail order catalogs and newsletters.

This collection contains tape-recorded interviews, writings, and research materials about Ome Daiber (1907-1989), a founder of the Mountain Rescue Council and inventor of outdoor equipment. It also includes tape-recorded interviews with Daiber, his wife Matie Daiber, and Joanne Warsinske.

Records in this collection include early organizing documents, officers' files, business meeting documents, policies, committee files, publications, correspondence, membership and officer directories, newsletters, meeting minutes, applications submitted for membership in the organization, research files, multimedia, clippings about search and rescue missions, and other materials relating to the national Mountain Rescue Association. The Mountain Rescue Association records also include materials from its predecessor organization (Mountain Rescue and Safety Council) and other organizations such as the Alpine Club of Canada, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the Mountaineers, and the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR).

This collection includes a 1959 pamphlet about mountaineering first aid.

Arthur Jessett was a University student when he climbed and died on Mt. St. Helens in 1952. The responders to his rescue/recovery were members of the Mountain Rescue Council, the predecessor of today’s Mountain Rescue Association. The papers of his father, Thomas Jessett, provide a newspaper's photographic record of the event, as well as an account of the tragedy in a personal diary, writings, and correspondence.