Route up Abruzzi Ridge Poster

A pencil-sketch showing the route of the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition and their eight camps.


Dee Molenaar is well known as a mountaineer, geologist, and alpine artist. He is also a former summit guide and park ranger at Mount Rainier, and authored the award-winning book 'The Challenge of Rainier', the definitive work on the northwest's highest peak. Dee has participated in numerous expeditions, including St. Elias (1946), K2 (1953), McKinley (1960), and Kennedy (1965); along with travels in New Zealand, Antarctica, and the Peruvian Andes. Dee has painted at such diverse locales as below sea level in Death Valley to 25,200' on K2. His watercolor and oil sketches and maps have graced a great number of books and journals. Original paintings are in private collections throughout the US, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, China, and the Soviet Union.