Fatality — Mount Lafayette, Feb 6, 2000

67-year-old author and mountaineer from East Corinth, VT

Guy Waterman, 67, a renowned Northeast mountaineer and co-author of Forest and Crag and Wilderness Ethics, climbed Mount Lafayette on February 6, 2000 and intentionally died of exposure near the summit. Friends, alerted by letters he had sent in advance, recovered his body in the following days. The case is widely documented in regional mountaineering literature and was discussed publicly by his widow, author Laura Waterman, in her memoir Losing the Garden.