Joe Horiskey

Former co-owner and director of RMI Denali Expeditions in Alaska, Joe has been a guide with Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. since 1968, when he was hired at age seventeen. Now retired, Joe’s passion and enthusiasm for climbing Mount Rainier have not waned in his fifty years of climbing for RMI, with 235 successful summits to his name. Since venturing north in 1972 when his party attempted 20,320’ Mt. McKinley, expedition climbing in Alaska has been his second favorite mountaineering destination. Joe has led 23 Mt. McKinley expeditions, and participated on climbs around the world. Some of his responsibilities at RMI included overseeing the numerous organizational details of our Mt. McKinley trips. In 1982 Joe was a team member of the China-Everest North Wall expedition led by Lou Whittaker. Joe and his wife, Marjorie, live outside of Eatonville, Washington. They have two grown children.