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2002 SUMMIT OF EXCELLENCE AWARD BARRY BLANCHARD ALPINIST Barry Blanchard has been a respected member of a small group of very elite alpine climbers for years. After three decades in the climbing game, he is now considered a mentor for a completely new generation of climbers while he continues to set high standards in his own climbing. Barry Blanchard’s name commands respect throughout the climbing world. In the past three decades, he has specialized in lightweight alpine expeditions in the world’s highest ranges. He lists his proudest climbing achievements as “a six-day ascent of the North Ridge of Rakaposhi [Pakistan] with Kevin Doyle and the late David Cheesmond, the first ascent of the North Pillar of North Twin [Canada] with Cheesmond, and surviving an alpine-style attempt on the Central Spur of the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat [Pakistan] with Mark Twight, Ward Robinson, and Doyle.” Blanchard is also a well-known raconteur, writer and mentor. Explore magazine describes him as “a mountaineer so revered that aspiring alpinists pin his photo in their high-school lockers.” Despite the high- level adulation, Blanchard maintains a down-to-earth sense of humour. “If it wasn’t for foreshortening,” he says, “no one would go up on anything.” Born in Calgary, Blanchard lives in Canmore, Alberta, with his wife, climber Catherine Mulvihill. An internationally-certified mountain guide, he has worked as a climbing advisor and safety rigger on a number of Hollywood films including Cliffhanger, K2, The Last of the Dogmen, The Edge, and Vertical Limit. Blanchard describes himself as a “proud Canadian half-breed.” “I am Metis, and a seventh-generation descendent of the leader of the Metis at the battle of Seven Oaks in the early 1800s. Two hundred years ago my people made their living hunting buffalo from horseback — kinda predisposes me to an adventurous life, don’t you think?” .

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