Browse Items (22 total)

A photo of WMCC student climbers Noel Tanneur and Mary Murane at the summit of the Grand Teton; photo by Walt Bailey

A LIFE Magazine Article on the Devils Tower Climbs in 1956 during the Proclamation of Mountaineers Week in Wyoming

A photo of the 1956 WMCC graduate climbers (Left to Right):
Back Row: Verne Becker, Dud McReynolds, & Dave Evans
Middle Row: Bruce Smith, Dave Sturdevant, Ron Ury, & Chic Brothers
Front Row: Gary Cole, Mary Murane, Noel Tanneur
Photo by Walt…

A photo of Walt Bailey helping Murane Murane over the roof of the Gladstone Hotel in a harness, preparing to rappel including a text description; photo b =y Harold Shatsoff of the Casper Tribune Herald

A photo of an original WMCC Membership card, created by WMCC student climber Vern Becker, along with the club's logos, patches, and other insignia

Newspaper articles released when Walt Bailey announced co-ed climbing classes with the WMCC at Casper College

A photo of Noel Tanneur and Dave Sturdevant taking a snack break atop the highest point of Devils Tower; photo by Walt Bailey

Newspaper clipping from the Denver Post Empire Magazine; announcement that Casper College will offer climbing classes that Walt Bailey (pictured) will teach

A WMCC climbing patch from a climbing vest, designed by Vern Becker at the start of the WMCC in 1954-1955

A photo of the WMCC founder, Albert Walter "Walt" Bailey in the Tetons in 1953; page 6 from Raymond Jacquot's book, " A Brief History of the Wyoming Mountaineers of Casper College," photo credit to the American Alpine Journal