About
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Now!Climbing is Chris Wright, an AMGA Certified Rock & Alpine Guide, alpinist, climber, skier and outdoor educator.
Originally from the UK, I grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where I learned to love time spent in the woods, and to master the art of skiing ice. I began climbing while studying film production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and have been hooked ever since. I began my career as a climbing professional as an instructor at the gym in college, and after graduating I moved to Central Oregon, where I began guiding for Timberline Mountain Guides in 2006. Since I began guiding, I’ve had the opportunity to climb Mt. Hood almost a hundred times, and to lead climbs from Washington to Colorado, and from Mexico’s El Pico de Orizaba to the summit of Denali.
As a mountain athlete, I like to go climbing in the wild places of the world, and so far the hunger for rock and ice has taken me, my rack, and a rope to five continents. Pursuing new climbs in new areas is my greatest passion, and has led me to pioneer new routes on mountains and crags from the Northwest to Alaska. An avid technical climber, my personal achievements include first ascents on virgin Alaskan summits, 5.12 rock climbs, both sport and traditional, grade VI big-walls and alpine climbs, and ice and mixed routes up to WI6 and M9 in difficulty. My guiding achievements include summitting Denali (20,320′), and successfully completing the big-wall Liberty Crack (V 5.10 A2) route at Washington Pass.
Each year I guide and instruct hundreds of climbers from Washington to Colorado to Alaska. As an AMGA Certified Rock & Alpine Guide, I’ve undertaken the most intensive training and cetification in the world of mountain guiding. Keeping people safe in the mountains isn’t just a job to me, it’s a profession.
About AMGA Certification
If you needed medical care, you wouldn’t hire a guy who dabbled in medicine, you’d hire a doctor. If you needed your taxes done, you’d hire a CPA, and if you want to go climbing, you should hire a Certified Guide. Why trust your life, your education and your time to anyone else? AMGA and IFMGA Certified Guides are the only guides who have been trained and assessed to the international standard. When you climb with a certified guide, you can be sure you’re going to receive the highest quality instruction on the most up-to-date techniques in the industry, and to climb with a partner whose safety and judgment have been intensely scrutinized. In a word, if you’re climbing with a Certified Guide, you’re climbing with a professional.
My credentials also include a Level III Certification from the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education, which is the highest level of snow and avalanche safety education one can recieve. I did also finsih my BFA at NYU, and I’m not a bad cook. I’m a great eater too.
Come join me out there for a truly memorable mountain experience. I promise you won’t regret it.
