Maury McKinney
Climbing 19 years
Guiding 15 years
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Experience
- Former President and Director of IMCS
- Board of Directors and Team Leader, Mountain Rescue Service
(MRS) White Mountains, New Hampshire.
- Former Board of Directors American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA).
- Board of Directors New Hampshire Outdoor Council (NHOC) a non-profit
organization dedicated to support of volunteer rescue teams.
- AMGA certified
Rock Instructor (September 2001)
- AMGA advanced rock guides course (November 2001)
- American Avalanche Institute Level II Certified
- EMT - 13 years. Currently WFR certified by SOLO.
- North Ridge Annapurna IV - fall season 2003. Climbed to camp 3 at 21,000ft and retreated due to high winds and unconsolidated snow.
- Annapurna I South Face - Nepal 1989. Winter ascent. Climbed
to 22,800'
- Gasherbrum II - Pakistan 1996. Climbed to ~25,000ft and retreated in the same storm made famous by John Kraukauer's book
Into Thin Air
- Lead Guide - IMCS expeditions to Ecuador in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004
- Lead Guide - Alpamayo, Peru June 2000
- Lead Guide - IMCS expedition to Huascaran 2002 (Peru)
- Exum Mountain
Guides - spent the summer of 1999 working as a guide in Grand
Teton National Park as part of an IMCS/Exum guide exchange program.
Guided Grand Teton nine times (Upper Exum Ridge, Owen/Spaulding
route, The Enclosure) during my six week assignment. I look forward
to guiding for Exum in the years ahead.
- Guide for
Jackson Hole Mountain Guides when working in Red
Rocks NV.
- Canadian Rockies - rock and alpine routes (Mt. Athabasca,
Mt
Louis, Bugaboos, Mt. Sir Donald)
- Cascades - rock and alpine routes (Mt. Rainier, Index Town Walls,
Snow Creek Wall, Pischastin Pinnacles, Liberty Bell)
- Rock climbing - South Africa (Table Mountain)
- Rock climbing - Arizona (Cochise Stronghold, Sedona and
Baboquivari
Peak), Utah (Indian Creek, Fisher Towers),
California (Joshua Tree), Nevada (Red Rocks),
New York (Shawangunks and the Adirondacks).
- Hiked the Appalachian Trail 1986 while finishing Master's degree
in physiology. Hiked from Georgia to Maine but decided to stay
in New Hampshire instead of finishing the remaining three hundred
miles of trail (never made it back to graduate school either).
- My wife Karen and I have a daughter named Zoë. She was born
February 9th, 1999. She spent her first summer with us in a tent
next to Cottonwood Creek in the Tetons with a beautiful view of
Mt Teewinot. Zoë accompanied us on expedition to Ecuador when
she was 19 months old.
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