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Published July 31, 2010

Climber set to reach summit for 500th time

Craig Hill, staff writer

If everything goes as planned - according to the latest plan - George Dunn should become the first man to summit Mount Rainier 500 times sometime this morning.

Dunn, a 56-year-old guide and director for Ashford’s International Mountain Guides, originally planned to make the historic climb Friday morning but delayed the trip with friends and family a day.

He changed the date so he and his party could take part in a charity climb for the Washington National Parks Fund. The two groups will summit together.

Dunn’s party began climbing Thursday and spent Friday at Ingraham Flats, elevation 11,800 feet. They planned to begin their summit push shortly after midnight Friday.

Dunn climbed Rainier for the first time in the late 1960s. He started guiding for RMI in 1975. In 1976, he set a record by climbing the 14,411-foot mountain 30 times.