Guy Waterman
American mountaineer, writer, and outdoor avocate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guy Waterman (1932–2000) was an American writer, mountaineer, conservationist, musician, and homesteader.[1] He was primarily known for his books about the outdoors, specifically the mountains of the Northeastern United States.[2] Backwoods Ethics and Wilderness Ethics, written collaboratively with his wife, Laura Waterman, helped define the clean camping[3] and hiking movements of the 1970s, and are credited with helping spawn the Leave No Trace[4] program. Waterman also authored, with Laura, two definitive mountain histories: Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, and Yankee Rock & Ice: A History of Climbing in the Northeastern United States. Their final book was a collection of fiction and essays: A Fine Kind of Madness: Mountain Adventures Tall and True published a few months after his death.
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Born | (1932-05-01)May 1, 1932 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | February 6, 2000(2000-02-06) (aged 67) Mt. Lafayette, New Hampshire, U.S. |
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Notable awards | David R. Brower Conservation Award 2012 Outstanding Service in Mountain Conservation |
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Children | 3 |