Keith McPheeters on the summit of Mount RainierKeith
McPheeters
Expedition Leader
 
 
 
 

Keith on the summit of Mount Rainier (Washington)
August 1998


Keith McPheeters, an avid outdoorsman, has lived in the mountain west of the United States in Idaho, Utah, and New Mexico.  He is 35 years old, married and the proud father of three daughters.  Keith currently lives in Farmington, New Mexico, where he has served for over seven years in the Farmington Police Department.  His duties have ranged from Patrol, to Detective, and Patrol Sergeant.  Keith is a member of the Special Response Team, for which he holds the position of Crisis/Hostage Negotiator and is cross-trained as an Entry Member.

Sergeant McPheeters is a member of Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc., also known as COPS, which is a nationwide non-profit organization providing resources and services for the survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.  McPheeters is trained and certified in several of their programs.

Keith's mountaineering experience includes successful summits of Mount Rainier (Washington), Mount Hood (Oregon) via the Leuthold Couloir Route, Uncompaghre (Colorado), Wetterhorn (Colorado), Fremont Peak (Wyoming), and numerable peaks in the Teton Mountain Range (Idaho), the Wind River Mountains (Wyoming), the San Juan Mountains (New Mexico), and the High Uinta Mountain Range (Utah). He is a veteran of numerous extended hunting trips and wilderness backpacking excursions, and has planned elaborate annual treks deep into the Wind River Mountains.

Keith is extremely self-sufficient and self-reliant, commonly planning his adventures himself.  He prefers unguided experiences, painstakingly studying and practicing the necessary skills until he masters the discipline. This applies as well to teaching himself to expertly call flocks of Canada Geese into his decoys as it does to expedition mountaineering.

The 1999 Denali Expedition truly began as Keith's dream.  He developed the concept of a memorial climb on the behalf of fallen police officers, assembled an international team, and is now about to embark on yet another adventure.
 
 

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