Mountain Culture

Topher Donahue - The (In)Accessible Wilderness

Thursday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
Eric Harvie Theatre

Topher Donahue is an award-winning mountaineer and journalist who has spent most of his life guiding, climbing, and skiing all over the world. Born the son of a mountain guide in a small cabin near Rocky Mountain National Park, Donahue began guiding rock and alpine climbs in the Colorado Rockies as a teenager. In 2006, he led an expedition to Cerro Fitzroy in Patagonia where the team completed the first free ascent of the peak’s 1700-meter east face – garnering the Golden Piton Award from Climbing Magazine for the best big wall free ascent of the year.

Donahue studied journalism at Colorado State University, and has been published in Alpinist, Climbing, Powder, and SKI magazines. Today, Donahue is president of communications company Alpinecreative Ltd, and is set to release his first book this fall, Bugaboo Dreams. An unforgettable story of adventure, it is the inside story of the people, thrills, accidents, and innovations behind the evolution of heli-skiing into the multi-million dollar industry that it is today.