A professional climber. A Piolet d’or recipient. A community leader. A vocal climate activist. An award-winning creative. Graham Zimmerman is also simply a mountain lover striving for a balance between people, nature, and exertion. We are honored that he will be joining us at Mountain Shop on June 12th to dive into his creative work and his alpinist adventures.
Born in New Zealand raised in the Northwest. After being exposed to alpine terrain in the Cascades he moved back to NZ where he cut his teeth in the Southern Alps and became a strong part of the Kiwi climbing community. Then, after graduating from university in 2007 he moved back to the states and has been focused on climbing as it applies to alpinism ever since. This has taken him on expeditions from Alaska to Patagonia to Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan and all over the lower 48 and Canada where he has established dozens of significant new routes on rock, ice and snow.
He specializes in complex logistics having run over 30 expeditions and assignments to many parts of the world including Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Alaska, Argentina, Eritrea and Kenya. For his climbing exploits Graham won the 2010 New Zealand Alpinist of the Year and was a finalist for the 2014 Piolet d’Or (alpine climbing’s equivalent to an Olympic gold medal) and won the 2017 Cutting Edge Award from the American Alpine Club
His book, A Fine Line: Searching For Balance Among Mountains, is a coming-of-age-memoir that grapples with growing awareness of climate change and friends lost to the mountains.
LEARN MORE about Graham Zimmerman, and join us on June 12th!
