Chongo Chuck
Acting
January 1, 1951 (75 years old)
Japan
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Acting Credits
Biography
Chongo Chuck, whose real name is Charles Victor Tucker II, was born in the 1950s on a military base in Japan. He is an iconic figure in Yosemite climbing. Chongo began climbing as a self-taught teenager in California. He was born on a U.S. military base in Japan and, in his own words, still remembers the fear he felt at birth. His father was a civil engineer, and Chongo was the eldest of seven children. He graduated from high school in Los Angeles and then spent a year studying undergraduate ma...
