Mt Everest Peace Climb Earth Day Poster Jim Whittaker Signed Mountain Climbing

Description

Original 1990 Mount Everest Peace Climb Poster
Autographed
by Jim Whittaker 27" x 19".
Found only a couple examples online and neither were autographed.
One is located at the Oakland Museum of California
Art Wolfe ~ photographer
Peace - Climb - 1990
1989
OFFSET LITHOGRAPH
PAPER
19.00 in
HIGH
x 27.00 in
WIDE
(48.26 cm
HIGH
x 68.58 cm
WIDE
)
inscription:
Lower left corner has the text: "Everest, North Face / Photo courtesy of Art Wolfe". Lower right corner has: "(c) Copyright 1989 / 1990 Peace Climb Association".
From Wikepedia on the peace climb..
The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb
was an expedition to reach the summit of
Mount Everest
during
Earth Week
1990 led by
Jim Whittaker
, the first American to climb Mount Everest (in 1963), and marked the first time in history that mountaineers from the
United States
,
Soviet Union
and
China
had roped together to climb a mountain, let alone Mount Everest.
[1]
The expedition's name was from its partnership with the Earth Day 20 Foundation, an organization celebrating the 20th anniversary of Earth Day that was led by
Edward Furia
. The climbers highlighted their expedition with a live satellite phone call to President
George H.W. Bush
as well as to Furia, Earth Day 20 organizers and thousands of supporters gathered in
George, Washington
, near the
Columbia River
on April 22, 1990. Whittaker called from base camp to pledge his support for world peace and attention to environmental issues.
[2]
The group also collected over two tons of trash (transported down the mountain by support groups along the way) that was left behind on Mount Everest from previous climbing expeditions.
[1]