Miles SmartPROFILE

Miles Smart

March 26, 1980
Seattle, WA
Marmot, K2, Garmont, Sterling Rope

Stormlight Jacket, Essence Jacket, “Original” DriClime wind shirt, Evolution Half Zip, Eiger Pack, All the Gas Bags

Miles Smart is an IFMGA/UIAGM mountain guide. He is the 2004 recipient of the AMGA Guide of the Year award. Miles guides around the world for his two guide services, Smart Mountain Guides and Steep Skiing Camps Worldwide. Outside of Miles’ professional guiding career his accomplishments include numerous speed climbing ascents and ski mountaineering descents. He has climbed El Capitan in Yosemite 18 times via 14 different routes He established one of the most difficult routes on El Capitan, Disorderly Conduct. He has skied lines such as the Gervasutti Couloir and the North Face of the Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix, and the Grand Teton in Wyoming. His climbing exploits include climbing on the Trango Towers in Pakistan, winter ascents in Chamonix and speed records on El Capitan and Half Dome. One such speed record, the North America Wall on El Capitan, took just over 9 and 1/2 hours.

People: Doug Coombs, Timmy O’Neill
Places: The Cascades, El Capitan, The Alps
My fiancé. Good Days in the mountains.
The best climber or skier in the world is the one having the most fun.
Thai, Sushi, French, Italian, Alaskan Seafood, Mexican, Dessert.....Yeah I like food!

I’m getting Married this year to Liz Oakes.

The Nose, El Capitan, California, The North Ridge of Mt Stuart, Cascades, Washington, Beyond Good and Evil, Chamonix France
Movies - The Big Lebowski, The Blizzard of Ahhs | Books - I have a thing for guide books.
Classic Rock, Reggae, Classical. I often go for a real eclectic mix.

The real world.

60 stitches in my face from a bad ski crash. That’s about it... I’ve been lucky.

Establishing a good home base for world adventures - right now I’m thinking Chamonix, France but that could change.I have endless goals and objectives in the Alps, both in climbing and skiing that will last the rest of my life.The Yosemite Valley is a place that I would like to start spending more time again. Nothing too crazy, but I would be psyched to try some link ups that I haven’t done before.There are some killer routes in Pakistan and Patagonia that are always in the back of my mind.

I play the Violin.

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