Anna Pfaff: Life's Newest Crux

633 South Broadway,Boulder CO 80305

12 January, 2023

Description

Anna will share select stories from alpine adventures around the world and how the lessons learned from the mountains have helped her overcome a new crux in life. She lost six toes due to frostbite sustained while climbing in the Alaska Range this past Spring and she's not sure what her journey forward looks like to make it back into the mountains but that's her goal and this even will be her story of how she is working hard to return. Anna Pfaff is a world-premiere alpinist, expedition climber and nurse who has climbed some of the most extreme and remote alpine terrain in the world. Born and raised in rural Ohio, Anna moved to Colorado to finish her nursing degree at the University of Colorado Denver. There, she joined her classmates for a trip to Indian Creek, Utah where she instantly was hooked on climbing. After graduating in 2003, Pfaff relocated to Boulder where she honed her skills on multi-pitch routes in Eldorado Canyon and the cracks of Indian Creek. The following year, she made the pilgrimage to Yosemite and within a year had climbed El Capitan. When she headed south one winter and first climbed in the Fitz Roy range, she was hooked on alpine climbing. Anna is now based in Ouray, Colorado.