Archives: Biographies

TJ Sanford

TJ Sanford

TJ is a routesetter and Assistant Head Coach at the Boulder Rock Club in Boulder, CO. He's competed in the Setter Showdown, taking 1st in the "Function" categor...
Dave Sheldon

Dave Sheldon

Dave has been climbing for eighteen years and has climbed sport routes up to 5.13b. He enjoys writing about what makes top climbers tick and how the 99% can mor...
Owen Silitch

Owen Silitch

Owen is an all-around climber from Brunswick, Maine and a former staffer at Climbing magazine....
Dr. Lisa Erikson

Dr. Lisa Erikson

Lisa is owner of LifeSport Chiropractic in Boulder, CO. She was Head Medical for USAClimbing's American Bouldering Series and Sport Climbing National Championsh...
Amy Jurries

Amy Jurries

Amy is founder and editor of The GearCaster as well as a freelance outdoor and adventure travel writer. Her work regularly appears in award-winning publications...
Nancy Prichard Bouchard

Nancy Prichard Bouchard

Nancy is an outdoor writer, climber and skier. Her writing has appeared in Men’s Journal, Playboy, Outside,  and Backpacker magazines, and she’s made appearance...
Cedar Wright

Cedar Wright

Cedar is a professional climber and filmmaker living in Boulder Colorado. As a member of The North Face Team, he has traveled the world establishing adventurous...
Metolius

Metolius

Making quality rock climbing gear since 1983, our safer-by-design philosophy has evolved as a result of the incredible dangers associated with climbing: rock fa...
Aleks Zebastian

Aleks Zebastian

Aleks is Mountain Project's most beloved forum troll. He claims to be from Norway, addresses everyone as "climbing friend," lives for the "bold flash," talks co...
Michelle Wallace

Michelle Wallace

Michelle Wallace has written for Alpinist, Vice, Narratively, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Rumpus, and The Tico Times, among others. She has an MFA and is a...
Julie Ellison

Julie Ellison

Julie writes and shoots stories about climbing and the outdoors and was Climbing magazine's first female Editor-in-Chief. She uses adventure as a way to experie...
Eileen Guo

Eileen Guo

Eileen is a freelance writer and obsessed climber. Based, in theory, in New York City, she much prefers the high deserts of the American Southwest and the newly...