Mark F. Twight Biography

I call myself a climber because climbing made me who I am. I started in 1980. The more and harder I did it the better I became. I made first ascents on five continents visited the Himalayas seven times climbed icebergs floating off the Antarctic coast and spent five years living and climbing in the French Alps. A few of my new routes have not been repeated and one or two speed records remain unbroken. I climbed professionally for fifteen years. I took it as far as I was willing and then retired in 2000. Punk rock attitude influenced my climbing as well as my writing; citing Gauguin and Joy Division then shouting no future in the next sentence made me a novelty in a world better known for romanticizing the sport. My essays about climbing were published in seven countries translated into five languages. In 1998 I finally had the sack to write more than 4000 words. Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light Fast and High (1999) won the National Outdoor Book Award and the Mountain Exposition prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. When asked to describe it I call it a

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