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Jim Wickwire
jim@generationsoneverest.com
Jim, a Seattle attorney, spends his spare time climbing mountains. A veteran of over twenty expeditions to Alaska, South America, the Karakoram and the Himalaya (1972-2001), he is best known for his 1978 ascent of K2 (28,250') the world's second highest mountain.
Wickwire was the first mountain climber to be profiled on CBS' 60 Minutes (1983) and also was the subject of an Emmy award-winning PBS documentary, "In the Shadow of the Mountains" (1982, revised 1998). He also appeared on MSNBC's "Special Edition" (August 1999) and was a participant in "Quest for K2," the National Geographic Society documentary on the climbing history of K2 (2001).
 Jim has been in private law practice since 1968 after leaving the Washington, D.C. staff of the late Senator Henry M. Jackson. He has represented the Inupiat Eskimo-owned Arctic Slope Regional Corporation in land and natural resource matters since its formation in 1972 pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. He now practices on a part-time basis.
He is co-author (with Dorothy Bullitt) of his memoir, Addicted to Danger (1998).
Residents of Seattle for the past 34 years, at 62, Jim and his wife Mary Lou have five children and twin granddaughters.
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