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Hulda Crooks
20th-century American mountaineer
Hulda Hoehn Crooks (May 19, 1896 – November 23, 1997) was an American mountaineer, dietitian and vegetarianism activist.
Affectionately known as "Grandma Whitney" she successfully scaled 14,505-foot (4,421 m) Mount Whitney 23 times between the ages of 65 and 91.
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She had climbed 97 other peaks during this period.[1] In 1990, an Act of Congress renamed Day Needle, one of the peaks in the Whitney area, to Crooks Peak in her honor.[2]
Biography
Hulda Hoehn was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, one of 18 children of a farming couple.
She left the farm just before she turned eighteen and enrolled at Pacific Union College north of San Francisco and later at Loma Linda University. There she met and married Dr Samuel Crooks.[3] She took up climbing in 1950, after the death of her husband,[3] who had encouraged her to start after she suffered a bout of pneumonia.[4]
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