2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CAT RUNNER | RUSS CLUNE | MADALEINE SORKIN | JARMOND JOHNSON

CAT RUNNER

Cat Runner is a transgender photographer, athlete, and community leader. Raised in Kentucky, he primarily focuses on rock climbing, which led to success on HBO's The Climb - the first televised outdoor climbing competition of its kind. In 2022, he founded the Queer Climber's Network, an organization and database focused on helping queer climbers connect with each other, instructors, educational programs, and professionals within the climbing industry. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Red River Gorge Climbers' Coalition and works with other community organizers to implement programming that makes climbing more inclusive and accessible to affinity identities. He is supported by prAna, Rhino Skin Solutions, and Organic Climbing.

RUSS CLUNE

Russ Clune is a rock climber living in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York. Clune has been climbing for almost 50 years and was one of America’s best rock climbers during his peak in the 1980s and remains one of the world’s most well-traveled climbers. His recently published memoir, The Lifer: Rock Climbing Adventures in the Gunks and Beyond depicts the rich history Clune has lived through in the sport, with rollicking tales of climbs and epics shared with many of the best climbers of his day. He remains active and continues to travel the globe seeking new cliffs, adventures and friends.

2024 ATHLETES AND CLINICIANS

greg troutman | dr. jared vagy | tammy wilson | genevive walker | Chuck & maggie Odette | Matt Pincus | marcus garcia | Devils tower climbing guides | carissa aarsvold | cheyenne smith | callan cooper | josie mckee | xavier bravo |Karly Rager | shingo ohkawa | Mark evans | and more!

 

2023 ATHLETES AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

KATIE BROWN - KAI LIGHTNER - ALEX JOHNSON - ALAN WATTS

miranda oakley | Eric Hörst | luke mehall | greg troutman | dr. jared vagy | tammy wilson | genevive walker | Chuck & maggie Odette | Matt Pincus | justin salas |marcus garcia | Devils tower climbing guides | carissa aarsvold | hayden jamieson | john davis | cheyenne smith | callan cooper | josie mckee | xavier bravo |Karly Rager | Kitty Calhoun | shingo ohkawa | alton richardson | Mark evans | and more!

2022 ATHLETES & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CHRIS KALOUS - JAMES “KG” KAGAMBI - BRITTANY GORIS - HAYDEN JAMIESON

Chuck Odette | Matt Pincus | Nathan Drolet | Marcus Garcia | Karly Rager | Kitty Calhoun | Maggie Odette | Cameron Hörst | Linda Williamson | Jonathan Hörst | Nikki McGee | Zach Kohler | Eric Hörst | Blake Cason | Harrison Teuber | Luke Mehall | Chelsea Murn | Carissa Aarsvold | and more!

2021 ATHLETES & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

SHINGO OHKAWA - CHRIS KALMAN - NIKKI SMITH

Alton Richardson | Dru Mack | Linda Tyler | Luke Mehall | Chris Kalman | Craig & Cyndy Demartino | Shingo Ohkawa | Cameron & Jonathan Horst | Molly Mitchell | Becky Switzer | Maggie & Chuck Odette | Eric Horst | Devils Tower Climbing Guides | Neely Quinn | Matt Pincus | Emma Capulong | Wind River Climbing Guides | Adam Mitchell | Chelsea Rude | & More!

 

PAST KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  • 2008 – Dave Macleod / Chris Lindner

  • 2007 – Todd Skinner Tribute

  • 2006 – Sonnie Trotter / Mike Anderson

  • 2005 – Lynn Hill

  • 2004 – Timmy O’Neil

  • 2003 – Todd Skinner and Paul Piana

  • 2002 – Steph Davis

  • 2001 – Dean Potter

  • 2000 – Barry Blanchard

  • 1999 – Galen Rowell / Conrad Anker

  • 1998 – Randy Leavitt / Greg Child

  • 1997 – Alex Lowe / Lynn Hill

  • 1996 – Jerry Moffatt / Doug Robinson

  • 1995 – Royal Robbins

  • 1994 – Todd Skinner and Paul Piana / Bobbi Bensman

  • 2019 — Volker Schoffl, Craig DeMartino, Kitty Calhoun, James Edward Mills

  • 2018 – Peter Croft, Nina Williams, Paul Piana, Angie Payne

  • 2017 – Tommy Caldwell, Joe Kinder, Hazel Findlay, Nathaniel Coleman, Matty Hong, Pamela Shanti-Pack

  • 2016 – Steph Davis, Sonnie Trotter, Matt Segal, Chelsea Rude

  • 2015 – Ethan Pringle, Hayden Kennedy, Alex Johnson, Hans Florine, Elad Omer, Carlo Traversi

  • 2014 – Lynn Hill, Sasha Diguilian, John Long, Angie Payne, Alex Honnold, Conrad Anker, Paige Claassen, Timmy O'Neill

  • 2013 – Tommy Caldwell, Timmy O’Neil, Emily Harrington, Cedar Wright, Erica Wynn, and Henry Barber

  • 2012 – Royal Robbins, Kevin Jorgeson, and Kate Rutherford

  • 2011 – Jonathan Siegrist

  • 2010 – Jason Kehl

  • 2009 – Joe Kinder