Climbing Rock: Vertical Explorations Across North Americs

Jesse Lynch is a rock climbing pianist based in New York City. Over the past eleven years Lynch has climbed in most major areas in North America, with a particular love for bigwall and long trad climbing. Off the walls, Lynch is a full-time professional musician, composer and curator of a monthly jazz series at The Vortex, a loft performance space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Photographer Francois Lebeau has spent the past decade capturing rock climbers in action across the globe. He strives to capture candid and decisive moments of athletes on the stone with the most magical light available. His perseverance and dedication to his craft has earned him the reputation of one of the best climbing photographers in the world. Lebeau s images are frequently featured in publications such as: Rock and Ice, Sidetracked, Besides and Outside magazines and his advertising clients include Mountain Hardwear, The North Face, Black Diamond, Adidas and Red Bull. Peter Croft is a legendary Canadian rock climber and mountaineer. He has concentrated much of his rock climbing career on big routes in Yosemite National Park, Squamish, British Columbia as well as the High Sierra. He has authored three guide books on the Sierras region and received The American Alpine Club s Robert and Miriam Underhill Award in 1991.