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Peter Stekel (www.peterstekel.com) is the
author of two World War II aviation history books. His specialty is
addressing military aircraft accidents and fatalities during training
exercises primarily in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Stekel
is well known by aviation archaeologists and historians for his deep
research and attention to historical details.
Stekel’s interest in military aviation accidents stems from his discovery
in 2007 of the remains of a World War II aviator in the Mendel Glacier of
Kings Canyon National Park. That story, and how the aviator became
entombed in the glacier in 1942, became the basis for his first World War
II history book, Final Flight, The Mystery of a WWII Plane Crash and
the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra (2010 Wilderness Press
www.FinalFlightTheBook.com). His second World War II history book,
Beneath
Haunted Waters, The Tragic Tale of Two B-24s Lost in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains During World War II explores the 1943 mysterious disappearance of two B-24
Liberator bombers and their decades later discovery (2017 Lyons Press
www.BeneathHauntedWaters.com).
Raised and educated in California, Peter Stekel has a BA in botany from University
of California,
Davis and did graduate work in ecology at Humboldt State University.
Stekel holds a secondary school teaching certificate in life science and
has worked as a high school biology teacher, outdoor school
educator/administrator, and laboratory/field scientist. He possesses
well-rounded freelance writer credentials having published over 700
feature and news articles in over two score periodicals and newspapers. He has
covered such diverse topics as American history, Olympic sports,
homelessness, travel and recreation, theater and entertainment, and local
politics.
Peter Stekel has spent his life hiking, climbing, and studying the natural
history of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. He brings this breath and
depth of knowledge and experience to good use in his World War II aviation
history books as he studies the airplane crashes that have occurred in
these mountains.
Stekel is also the author of the best-selling Best Hikes Seattle, Best
Wildflower Hikes Western Washington, a detective novel, and a memoir,
Growing Up White in the Sixties.
Peter Stekel lives in Seattle, Washington. |
