Mountaineering Experience

I’m sometimes asked by expedition companies or mountaineering clubs for something akin to a climbing resume, and thought I would try and capture the broad strokes of my mountaineering experience here.  I’ll come back and update it from time to time as I continue to accumulate new experience.

Instructional Courses

Alpine Climbing

• Basic Mountaineering: Höhenfieber @ Wallis region, Swiss Alps (10 days)
• Advanced Mountaineering: Adventure Consultants @ Mont Blanc Massif (8 days)

Ice Climbing

• Lee Vining, CA (3 days)
• Hemsedal, Norway (2 days)

Alpine Climbing Experience

European Alps

• Numerous hikes, glacier traverses and mountain ascents in Swiss, Austrian, French & Italian Alps
• Mix of commercially guided and self-led ascents
• Notable climbs:
  • Matterhorn: Hörnligrat NW ridge (AD) (2011)
  • Dent du Geant: SW face (III/AD) (2012)
  • Nadelhorn: Windgrat ridge (PD) (2003)
  • Lagginhorn: N ridge (III/AD) (2003)
  • Aiguille d’Entrèves: SW ridge (IV) (2012)
  • Aiguille Marbrées: NE face (F+/PD-) (2012)

Himalayas

• Larkya Peak: Normal route (Grade III/PD), 6,249m (2016)
• Lobuche East: SE ridge normal route (Grade PD+), 6,119m (2019)

Andes

• Guided ascents up multiple peaks
• Ecuador (2004)
  • Iliniza Norte: Normal route (Grade I/F, Class 3), 5,126m
  • Cotopaxi: Normal route (Grade II/PD), 5,897m
• Peru – Cordillera Blanca (2012)
  • Ishinca: Normal route (F), 5,530m
  • Pisco Oeste: SW ridge (PD+), 5,752m
• Peru – Cordillera Vilcanota (2013)
  • Nevado Jampa: 5,500m
  • Nevado Ausangate: SW ridge, 6,384m (unsuccessful attempt)

Patagonia

• Southern Patagonian Ice Cap (Campo de Hielo Sur): 10-day partial traverse (2006)

Mexico Volcanoes

• Iztaccihuatl: La Arista del Sol normal route (Grade I), 5,230m (2022)

Alaska Range

• Denali: West Buttress (Grade II), 6,194m/20,320ft (2015)

Cascades

• Mt Shasta: Avalanche Gulch (Grade I), 4,322m (2009 & 2015)
• Mt Rainier: Kautz Glacier (Grade II/III), 4,392m (planned 2023)

Sierra Nevada

• Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park
  • Mt Whitney: Mountaineer’s Route (Grade III), 4,421m/14,505ft (unsuccessful winter attempt in 2016)
• Yosemite National Park
  • Yosemite Valley: Manure Pile Buttress, After Six (5.7) (2015)
  • Tuolumne Meadows/Tioga Pass: Tenaya Peak, NW Buttress (5.5, 1,500ft) (2016)

Ice Climbing Experience

• Lee Vining Canyon, Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA (WI2-4)
• Golsjuvet, Hemsedal, Norway (WI4)
• Chèré Couloir, N Face, Mont Blanc du Tacul, France (II/D+, 350m, 80deg)