| Summary: | This register documents climbers who reached the summit of Mount Rainier between 1930 and 1938. It was a way for the Mountaineers to keep track on the number of people making the ascent, when they climbed and where they came from. Some entries include small notes on the conditions of the climb. The register includes many entries by well known mountaineers George Senner, Dee Molenaar and Robert Craig. It also documents climbs made by both the Seattle and Tacoma Mountaineers. Dee Molenaar climbed peaks through the western United States, Canda, Alaska, the Alps, Himalayas, New Zealand, and Antarctica. His expeditions included the Harvard Mountaineering Committee ascent of Mount St. Elias in 1946, which was the second ascent of the mountain and the first American summit of the peak; the 1953 American expedition to K2; Mount McKinley (Denali) in 1960; Mount Kennedy in 1965; and multiple peaks in the Alps in 1973. Molenaar's definitive book, "The Challenge of Rainier," was based in part upon his experience serving as a summit guide (1940-41 and 1947) and National Parks Service Ranger (1950-1952) on Mount Rainier.
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