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Never get separated from your primal urges. – Gerry Roach
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Gerry below Boulder’s Flatirons in June 2000 |  |
Gerry on top of Tanzania’s Little Meru in September 2002 |
Gerry Roach moved to Boulder Colorado as a lad in 1954, and started climbing rocks and mountains shortly thereafter. Over five decades later, he continues pursuing his mountaineering passion with all the energy he can muster.
Gerry’s complete climbing resume Gerry’s Professional resume
In the intervening years, Gerry became a world-class mountaineer. After climbing Mount Everest in 1983, he went on to become the second person to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents in 1985. In over 50 years of mountaineering that span 6 different calendar decades, Gerry has climbed in dozens of states and countries. He has been on sixteen Alaskan expeditions, ten Andean expeditions and seven Himalayan expeditions, including first ascents in the kingdom of Bhutan. In 1997, he summited 26,360-foot Gasherbrum II in the Karakorum. In 2000, Gerry became the first person to climb the ten highest peaks in North America. After this climb, he was the subject of a Fast and Light article in Rock and Ice. In 2003, Gerry became the first person to climb every major peak over 16,000 feet in North America. Gerry is a member of the Colorado Mountain Club, the Sierra Club, and the American Alpine Club.
Closer to home, Gerry has climbed more than 1,400 named peaks in Colorado, including all the Fourteeners, which he completed for the first time in 1975. He finished climbing every named peak in the Indian Peaks Wilderness and Rocky Mountain National Park in 1978. He has also climbed every peak in the Colorado counties of Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek, and every named peak in Jefferson County. He completed visits to all 64 Colorado counties in 2001, and became the tenth person to achieve this feat. He is also a member of the coveted Highpointers’ Double Century Club for visiting more than 210 county summits nationwide, and he has done all 50 of the US State Summits. In 2004, Gerry completed the 99 classic desert peaks on the Sierra Club’s fabled Desert Peaks List. Pursuing a new venue, Gerry has visited the highpoints of 49 of the 58 US National Parks.
Gerry is also an accomplished rock climber. His first book, Flatiron Classics, is a guide to the trails and easier rock climbs in the Flatirons above Boulder. His second book, Rocky Mountain National Park, is a guide to the classic hikes and climbs in the park. His guide Colorado’s Indian Peaks, now in its second edition, remains the definitive mountaineering guide to that special area. In his guide Colorado’s Fourteeners, Gerry conveys his intimate knowledge of, and love for Colorado’s high peaks. In Colorado’s Lost Creek Wilderness, Gerry expanded the scope of his guidebooks, and continued to convey his love for Colorado’s mountains. His most recent guidebook is Colorado’s Thirteeners, which he co-authored with Jennifer. After returning from his numerous expeditions, Gerry climbs in Colorado’s mountains to re-hone his skills, and write about his experiences. His first narrative is Transcendent Summits. Mountaineering in his rugged and beautiful home state forms the foundation for his successful expeditions to Earth’s great peaks. In 2005, the Sierra Club gave Gerry the coveted Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award for a lifetime of mountaineering achievement. Gerry lives with his wife Jennifer in Boulder, Colorado USA.
Gerry’s complete climbing resume
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Denali’s Muldrow Glacier, seen from the northeast |
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Gerry on Denali’s summit after an ascent from Wonder Lake |
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The Yukon’s 16,972’ King Peak, 6/73 |
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Gerry on King Peak’s summit, 6/99 |