Dave Page (born 1939) is considered the world's leading expert on mountaineering footwear history, as well as an expert cobbler (a

hiking boot A hike is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside. Walking for pleasure developed in Europe during the eighteenth century. Long hikes as part of a religious pilgrimage have existed for a much longer time. "H ...

repairman). He is a former history professor at the

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and is a cobbler based in

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, United States. He has been resoling mountain boots since 1968. He works closely with boot manufacturers worldwide doing a wide range of innovative resoling and repair work. Forensic anthropologists called on Dave Page to help identify the manufacturer of the boots found on the body of

George Mallory George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English Mountaineering, mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s. He and climbing partner An ...

.AJC (October 10, 1999).
Old boots kept mobile under care of a master.
, ''

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''. Page has made many historic mountain climbing ascents among contemporaries

Fred Beckey Friedrich Wolfgang Beckey (14 January 1923 – 30 October 2017), 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 ...

and other notable cascade climbers of the 20th century; these included ascents in the

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Dave Page's Homepage
1939 births Living people American shoemakers Educators from Seattle American mountain climbers University of Washington faculty {{US-climbing-bio-stub