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Jim Surette
Jim Surette
Photo: Jim Surette on the Fang, Vail, CO. Courtesy Steve Schneider

Climbing: 20 years
Guiding: 6 years

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Jim Surette, 34, hails from North Conway, New Hampshire, which is a great town to turn a young boy into one of the US's most well rounded climbers. New Hampshire had it all when Jim was coming of age: a history of hard, necky traditional climbing and lots of rock and ice. Introduced to climbing at age 14 he soon became one of the Eighty's new wunderkind climbing at unbelievable new standards. Jim started new routing at 16 and shortly established New Hampshire's first 5.13, Liquid Sky, which checks in at 5.13c.

Properly schooled in the trade, Jim ventured forth bagging routes around the world. Jim is a classic Clark Kent character sans glasses, climbing rock, ice and alpine routes in Europe, Asia, Canada, Peru and Patagonia. From putting up 5.13d sport routes in Rifle to climbing hard alpine routes in exotic places, he gets around. READ about Jim's ascent of the West Face of Cerro Torre with Charlie Fowler

Jim works and travels extensively as a movie camera operator and sound tech. He participated in filming Lynn Hill's first free ascent of the Nose, The North Face Great Trango Expedition, and a couple of Eco Challenge races. In the last two years alone, his work has taken him to Alaska, Argentina, Pakistan, Borneo, and Iceland.

To look over more information about Jim's film and video accomplishments go to: www.GraniteFilms.com


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