Guiding Credentials

Guiding and Teaching Credentials

• AMGA Certified Rock Guide: 2006
• AMGA Certified Rock Instructor: 2003
• AIARE Level II Avalanche Course
• AIARE Level I Instructor: 2003-2004
• Wilderness First Responder

Guiding and Teaching Experience

• Rock, Ice and Alpine Guide since 1998 for various companies including: American Alpine Institute, Colorado Mountain School, and Exum
• Specializing in multi-pitch rock and ice routes, rescue and lead instruction.
• US Guiding Areas: Tetons, North Cascades, Red Rock Canyon, Joshua Tree, Colorado Rockies, New Hampshire/Vermont
• Guided International Expeditions: Nepal, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Alaska
• Pacific Crest Outward Bound: 1997
• Voyageur Outward Bound: 1996

Climbing Experience

• Ice Routes in Colorado, Washington, Nepal, and New Hampshire
• Rock throughout the US, South America, and Africa
• Alpine Climbing in: Alaska, Nepal, Ecuador, along with various guiding ascents.
• Recent First Ascents/Adventure Climbing: Ethiopia, Namibia.

Other Credentials and Achievements

• BA in Anthropology, Princeton University
• MFA in Creative Writing, Warren Wilson Program for Writers
• Author, Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa (Shama, 2008)
• Executive Producer, "Waypoint Namibia"
• Senior Contributing Editor and Voice of "Whipped," Climbing Magazine.
• Freelance Writer
• Ambassador/Athlete for: Patagonia, Petzl, Osprey, Scarpa, Outdoor Research, and Julbo
• AMGA Board Member
• Former Rocky Mountain Section Chair, American Alpine Club
• For more information see: www.majkaburhardt.com