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Dec 20, 2004 · James Barry Corbet 1936 - 2004. [Posted December 20, 2004 by corbet] James Barry Corbet, your editor's father, passed away on December 18, 2004. To say that he will be greatly missed is an understatement; he lived a life which was full in the extreme, and he touched the lives of a great many others. This is a sad time.
The run is named for Barry Corbet, a mountaineer who in 1960 spotted a narrow crease of snow shaped like an upside-down funnel, high up on the mountain now known as Jackson Hole. He said, “Someday someone will ski that.”. It was first skied by local ski patroller Lonnie Ball in 1967. The couloir is around three metres wide at the endtrance ...
Oct 3, 2023 · Barry Corbet, an intrepid skier, mountaineer, explorer, filmmaker, and Jackson Hole legend, broke his back in a helicopter crash in 1968. Frustrated by a pre-ADA culture that did not accept or support the disabled, Barry reinvented himself, becoming a seminal leader in the disability community.
Dec 1, 2014 · Barry’s Story (as it appeared in AARP Magazine, Jan.-Feb. issue, 2007): The author of “Embedded,” Barry Corbet — writer, editor and former mountaineer and filmmaker — did go home. Because his surgery results fell short of his hopes and his other shoulder deteriorated further, he did not regain the full physical independence he would have liked.
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Oct 3, 2023 · In 1968, Barry Corbet — the famous skier and mountaineer, whose name would eventually adorn an iconic couloir at Jackson Hole — broke his spine in a helicopter crash. Forty-six years later, in ...
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