The Last Best SKI - Graham Zimmerman / Protect our Winters Athlete Advocate

I’m speaking with Alpinist and Protect Our Winters Athlete Advocate Graham Zimmerman about skiing, wilderness and building strong people, with strong communities with a voice. Here is the full interview uncut and unedited.

Bozeman and the Greater Yellowstone Region is very close to my heart.

Yellowstone is a place for most Americans that is this iconic place of wilderness. It is a zone that really represents wilderness in the American ideology. That is something really powerful. It is an idea that drives a lot of people to form a relationship with wild spaces. The ideals created by our forefathers of the American wilderness and the American West. I love that it is so deeply ingrained in what it means to be American.

The mountain ranges extending from every direction of the Yellowstone ecosystem, if you are interested in climbing in wilderness in the lower 48, those are the best places to go. That’s where it’s at. Where you aren’t going to see people, you are going to be climbing on large mountains with very technical aspects, and whether or not you are making first ascents or you are repeating things, you are going to be having an adventure.

-Graham Zimmerman

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Graham Zimmerman on a new climbing adventure deep in the wilderness.