# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-beckey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:41.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-beckey"
name: "Fred Beckey"
slug: "fred-beckey"
description: "Friedrich Wolfgang Beckey, known as Fred Beckey, was an American rock climber, mountaineer and book author, who in seven decades of climbing achieved hundreds of first ascents of some of the tallest peaks and most important routes throughout Alaska, the Canadian Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. Among the Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, seven were established by Beckey, often climbing with some of the best known climbers of each generation."
tagline: "American mountain climber"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Beckey%2C_about_1990.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-01-14"
deathDate: "2017-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.07
  momentum:             3.406546219413623
  historical:           5.546802666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "فرد بکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beckey"
    title: "Fred Beckey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beckey"
    title: "Fred Beckey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "فریڈ بیکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beckey"
    title: "Fred Beckey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beckey"
    title: "Fred Beckey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5494585"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump