Robert Craig, Keystone Center founder, climber, dies at 90

KEYSTONE, Colo. (AP) - Robert Craig, founder of the Keystone Center conflict-resolution group and an accomplished mountain climber, has died at age 90.

The Keystone Center said Craig died Jan. 16 in Denver.

Craig launched the center in 1975 at the urging of Bob Maynard, then president of the Keystone ski resort. Craig wanted the center to focus on resolving conflicts in national policy issues rather than only discussing them.

He ws president and CEO of the center until 1996.

Previously, he was executive director of the Aspen Institute, a policy-study group.

Craig climbed mountains in the Cascades and Rockies as well as the Himalayas and the Pamir range of central Asia. He wrote "Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs" and was a co-author of "The Savage Mountain," books about his climbing adventures.