Rainier Mountain Festival

Jake Norton

A climber since 1986 and guide since 1993, Jake has traveled the world helping people reach the summits of their dreams. By the time he was 35 years old, Jake had already spent over a year of his life on Mount Everest on 6 expeditions with three summits of the mountain. Aside from climbing, Jake has accomplished great things in his career as a professional photographer. Working for prestigious media outlets such as Discovery, PBS/NOVA, BBC, Channel-4, and the Outdoor Life Network, Jake has covered assignments in South Africa, Costa Rica, Iceland, Nepal, Tibet, and throughout the USA. His photographic work has been published in Outside Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Men's Journal, Vanity Fair, Forbes, and countless other national and international publications, and has also been used in major ad campaigns by Toyota and Ford. Jake currently works as the primary photographer for the First Ascent line of technical clothing from Eddie Bauer, and is also an athlete on the First Ascent team.

Climbing Resume
89 summits of Mount Rainier (14,410')
2 summits of Mt. Everest (29,035')
3 summits of Mt. Kilimanjaro
Mt. McKinley (20,320')
Aconcagua (22,832')
Led the first official American ascent of 25,502-ft Gurla Mandhata in Tibet
Retraced the 1917 crossing of South Georgia Island by Sir Ernest Shackleton
Helped discover the remains of George Mallory on Everest in 1999
Over 20 expeditions to Nepal & Tibet
Five expeditions to the Peruvian Andes