CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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Three residents of the Tacoma area plan to climb volcanoes in Mexico starting Friday to raise money for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Katie Veseth of DuPont and Emily Morris and Neil Wachter of Tacoma are climbing as part of the Climb to Fight Breast Cancer. The program has raised for more than $3 million – including more than $775,000 this year – since it started 11 years ago, according to a statement from the center.
They are among 100 participants in the climb. They will be climbing two peaks – 18,491-foot El pico de Orizaba and 17,126-foot Volcán Iztaccíhuatl – about 600 miles south of the U.S. border.
Veseth, a 27-year-old Air Force pilot, fitness trainer and seminary student, is climbing in honor of her great grandmother and her aunts. Her climbing experience includes Mount Rainier and Mount Hood.
Morris, an accountant, is climbing in honor of her mother who is battling breast cancer for the second time. She is friends with Veseth and this is the second time they’ve participated together in the Climb to Fight Breast Cancer.
Veseth and Morris have raised $4,440 of their $7,500 goal.
Wachter, a Kitsap County deputy prosecuting attorney, will climb Oct. 29 in honor of a friend, Robbi Huff, who is a two-time breast cancer survivor. Wachter, who has climbed many of Washington’s volcanoes, has raised $6,900 of his $10,000 goal.
