PROFILE
BR
February 4, 1974
Atlanta, GA
La Sportiva, Mountain Athlete, Marmot
Favorite Marmot Products: Super Hero, ANY down sleeping bag, Exum Jacket, Work Glove, Spring Glove, X-Hoody.
Alex Lowe, Jack Tackle, Al Read, Rod Newcomb, My Mom.
Spending time with Friends in the Mountains or just out Climbing with friends
"The best climber is the one having the most fun." Alex Lowe
Fried Chicken
Exum Mountain Guide and former U.S. Marine Corps Infantry and Security Forces. Mountaineering throughout U.S., including ascents and ski descents in Tetons and Wind Rivers including a 12 hour car to car ascent of the North Face of the Grand Teton.
Ascents in Canadian Rockies. Expedition to Mt. McKinley. Expedition to the West Ridge of Khan Tengri, Tien-Shan in Kazakhstan.
First ascent "El Pilar" and "Cerro Liso," Mexico. Member 2003 Khumbu Exploratory Expedition. First Ascent Peak 5,880, Khumbu, Nepal. Guide in Nepal. Board of Directors Tutuaca Mountain Center, Mexico.
Recipient Anatoli Boukreev Memorial Fund Grant. Expedition to Rio Murta Group, Northern Chilean Patagonia, 2006. Expedition to Fitz Roy Patagonia, Guillamet. 2008. Expedtion to the Ruth Gorge, AK 2008 attempt on the Cobra Pillar.
I am from the South and I get scared climbing.
Figures on a Landscape, Joshua Tree, CA. The Exum Ridge on the Grand Teton.
Heat, Dumb and Dumber
The Great Game, I have read it 3 times on different expedtions
Always changing
Lots of things
I have been lucky so far, nothing to speak of YET.
To climb as long as I can.