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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...
Margo Hayes

Margo Hayes

Margo is a Boulder, Colorado based rock climber who made history on February 26, 2017 by becoming the first woman to climb a confirmed 5.15a....
Vikki Glinskii

Vikki Glinskii

Vikki Glinskii is an obsessed rock climber and media maker living on the road with her partner, Spenser, since 2012. A 10-foot trailer serves as the home base f...
Never Not Collective

Never Not Collective

Never Not, started by four "unapologetic women of the outdoors" (Julie Ellison, Shelma Jun, Leslie Hittmeier, and Colette McInerney), seeks to tell the stories ...
Chris Noble

Chris Noble

Chris is a climber and photographer and veteran of more than 30 expeditions. His is author of Women Who Dare: North America's Most Inspiring Women Climbers  and...
Amelia Arvesen

Amelia Arvesen

Amelia Arvesen is a Boulder-based journalist and freelance writer. She’s from California and has also lived in Kansas. She hikes, climbs, runs slowly, devours a...
Dr. Carla Cupido

Dr. Carla Cupido

Cupido earned an Honors Bachelor of Kinesiology degree while competing as a varsity track athlete. From there, she achieved a Doctor of Chiropractic degree and ...
Chris Van Leuven

Chris Van Leuven

Chris Van Leuven lives with his boxer Fenster (aka Brown Pants) in a small cabin in the woods above Boulder, Colorado. His home is surrounded by steep singletra...
Alton Richardson

Alton Richardson

Alton is a photographer and cinematographer who documents stories about climbing, skiing and adventure in the mountains. He is a co-founder of California Climbe...
Drew Zieff

Drew Zieff

Drew Zieff is a freelance outdoor writer and content creator who alternates between living in a custom-built van and chasing surf and snow around the world. REI...