Jay Mather

Photographer and climber Jay Mather (Geog’69) enjoyed the Everest story in the December 2011 issue of theColoradan “When Everest speaks.” Jay has climbed the Tetons, Rockies, the Sierra and Yosemite. He guided for Outward Bound for a couple of summers in the 1970s and was recruited by Willi Unsoeld, one of the first Americans to climb Everest, in 1963 to help with an experiential education program for juvenile delinquents in the St. Louis, Mo., court system. He lives in Sisters, Ore., and continues to take photographs. His work was featured in the June 2010Coloradan.