Mark grew up in New Jersey and has lived in Londonderry, NH since 1981. His first year in NH he took a multi-day rock climbing class followed up that winter with a multi-day ice climbing class – with IMCS. After 40 years, climbing is still his life long passion.
He guided part time for a few years in the mid 1990s and after a successful business career retired in 2015. Since then he has focused on professional development and guided for the last five years in New England, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.
He has climbed all over the world in all disciplines – rock, ice and alpinism. Some of his favorite places to climb are Bolivia, Canadian Rockies, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Black Hills, Colorado and of course New England with its diversity of climbing terrain.
Guiding and instructing enables Mark to share his passion for climbing which hopefully leads to life-long pursuits of mountain adventures and fun.
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