WHERE ARE CONRAD ANKER+CHARLES F. PASSEL
THEY NOW
LOCAL has been publishing for over 18 years and we have the
archives to show it. With this column we continue to reach back
into our old issues to see “Where are they now?”
MAY 2016
Photography by Ricardo Merendoni
Photography Courtesy of Conrad Anker
MARCH 2001
VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 27 | MARCH 2001
Conrad Anker & Charles F. Passel | Explorers, Climbers & Curators
15 years ago CONRAD ANKER and his story on how he, CHARLES F.
PASSEL and Harry Agger recreated Sir Ernest Shackleton‘s
Antarctic adventure was featured on the cover of 002magazine.
Learning a deep appreciation for outdoors from his California
childhood, Anker, now 53, has become a professional rock
climber, author and mountaineer. As captain of the The North
Face Athlete Team, 12 excursions later, finding George Mallory’s
remains and climbing Everest 3 times, Anker is completely happy
with his decision to sell his company to climb the world.
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At the age of 25 Charles F. Passel journeyed the Pole where he
then spent two years with the United Antarctic Service. Born in
Indianapolis on April 9, 1915, Passel was a major participant in
Richard E. Byrd’s 1939 expedition and then served in the U.S.
Marine Corps, teaching at various universities after the war.
Passel used his expedition diary along with his lifelong interest in
Antarctica to write An Antarctic Journal, which was revised and
printed in 1995 as Ice. Charles F. Passel died in December 2002
at the age of 87.