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Rick White

Australian rock climber and mountaineer

Rick White (1946 – 26 November 2004) was an Australian rock climber, best known for discovering and developing rock climbing on the north cliffs of Mt French, the so-called Frog Buttress, near Boonah in Queensland, Australia. This roughly 50m high cliff, composed of rhyolite columns, is a bastion of 'trad' crack climbing.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Rick White (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1946, died Nov 26, 2004.1

About

White's natural ability shone, with many first ascents recorded as 'Second unable to follow'.

As quality rock climbing equipment was extremely difficult to obtain in Australia, Rick White founded Rick's Mountain Shop to import gear from the states and sell to the small local climbing community. This later became Mountain Designs. which had its head office, a factory manufacturing soft goods, and a retail shop in Fortitude Valley. This building now houses Rocksports Indoor Climbing.

White was the first person to solo Ball's Pyramid, and did so with a time of 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Rick White's mountaineering ascents included:

From Wikipedia’s article on Rick White, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Career

Occupation: mountaineer.4

Personal life

  • CitizenshipAustralia5

Sources

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