| From | USA 🇺🇸 |
| Date of birth | 6th Oct 1932 |
| Date of death | 23rd Jun 1970 |
| Age | 37 years old |
| Gender | Male |
| Climbing | |
| Hardest Trad (Worked) | E2 |
| Hardest Trad (Flash) | E1 |
Californian rock climber and Professor of Biology at Stanford University.
Wilson started climbing in southern California in the early 1950s, soon participating in first ascents with Royal Robbins and Chuck Wilts. With these two he developed the Yosemite Decimal System (originally the Tahquitz decimal system) to grade the difficulty of free climbing.
Wilson wrote a classic paper on insect flight and its control by their central nervous system.
He drowned in a whitewater rafting accident.
[1] https://faculty.ucr.edu/~currie/wilson.pdf
[2] https://faculty.ucr.edu/%7Ecurrie/donald-wilson.htm
[3] http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1084204&msg=1084750#msg1084750
| From | USA 🇺🇸 |
| Date of birth | 6th Oct 1932 |
| Date of death | 23rd Jun 1970 |
| Age | 37 years old |
| Gender | Male |
| Climbing | |
| Hardest Trad (Worked) | E2 |
| Hardest Trad (Flash) | E1 |
Californian rock climber and Professor of Biology at Stanford University.
Wilson started climbing in southern California in the early 1950s, soon participating in first ascents with Royal Robbins and Chuck Wilts. With these two he developed the Yosemite Decimal System (originally the Tahquitz decimal system) to grade the difficulty of free climbing.
Wilson wrote a classic paper on insect flight and its control by their central nervous system.
He drowned in a whitewater rafting accident.
[1] https://faculty.ucr.edu/~currie/wilson.pdf
[2] https://faculty.ucr.edu/%7Ecurrie/donald-wilson.htm
[3] http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1084204&msg=1084750#msg1084750