Mountaineering
Edwards was a park ranger in Glacier National Park for nine years beginning in 1947, and returned often in the years following. He spent much of his free time exploring the rugged terrain of the park, and pioneered many different routes up a variety of its spectacular mountains. In the forward to his mountaineering classic, A Climber's Guide to Glacier National Park, Rolf Larson gave him the unofficial title of "patron saint of climbing" in the park. The guide book was first published by the Sierra Club in 1961, with the most recently updated edition published in 1995. Edwards was also a founding member of the Glacier Mountaineering Society, a group that publishes an annual climbing journal and continues to be active in organizing hikes and climbs throughout the park.
He died on July 19, 2004, of a heart attack while hiking up Divide Mountain on the eastern edge of Glacier National Park (U.S.) with his wife, Alice. He was 84.
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