Graham Zimmerman goes his own way
In 2004, Graham Zimmerman finished high school in Edmonds, Washington, and went off to college—in New Zealand. Eighteen years old, he was looking only for alpine ice. He spent his college years in both hemispheres, chasing winter.
In a turnaround of the usual progression, as he puts it, “I got into mountaineering and ice and mixed climbing before rock climbing.”
This story is from the February 2018, #248 edition of Rock and Ice.
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