PROFILE
Limey, Big Bird
February 25, 1976
Olympic Valley, CA
Marmot, Edelrid, Kaenon, CAMP, Himaya
Superhero jacket, Ama Dablam jacket, DriClime Windshirt
Alpenglow Expedition’s founder and head guide, Adrian has been guiding full-time for over a decade, and has led over 60 international climbing expeditions on 5 continents. Adrian is a Georgetown University graduate and is a fully certified IFMGA/AMGA guide (one of 50 in the USA). Adrian's personal ascents include successful solo climbs of Ama Dablam (22,525 ft) in Nepal, Artesonraju (20,005 ft) in Peru, and more recently, alpine-style climbs on the South Ridge of Pumo Ri (23,500 ft), the West Face of Cayesh, and the NE Ridge of Huascaran Norte. This year, in addition to six months guiding high altitude peaks worldwide (including Everest, Manaslu, Alpamayo, Orizaba, Kilimanjaro, Quitaraju and Ama Dablam), Adrian is also ski, ice, and rock guiding in his dual “hometowns” of North Lake Tahoe, California and La Grave, France.
POWDER! coffee, tennis, my blackberry, summiting peaks with great clients, kiteboarding, pizza… ohhh the list goes on and on.
PEEP!
Butter
Founding Alpenglow Expeditions, AMGA certifications.
Accepted into medical school, but couldn’t stop climbing and skiing long enough to attend.
Guiding–SW Ridge of Ama Dablam / Personal-My friends complain that I always say that whatever I just finished was the “best, sickest, etc.” So I am not sure I can answer this one reliably.
Kill Bill I and II – Watch them both together as a single epic.
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Whatever my friends put on my Nano this week.
Big, hairy spiders
Most recently, broke 2 bones in my right foot while kiteboarding off the coast of Morocco.
Snacking before dinner
Continue building Alpenglow to be an industry leading guide service; explore and climb in the “-stans” (Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, etc.); ski more powder.
Marmot Athlete and Alpenglow Expeditions' owner Adrian Ballinger discusses Marmot clothing and its benefits for horseback riding. The video is filmed while riding horses out of Alpamayo Basecamp in Peru at the end of a climbing expedition.