Nationality: American. Occupation: Retired Machinist from Eastman Kodak Co. (33 years). Missions with C4C: Mexico 2007 and Haiti 2025.
How long have you climbed? I am a non-climbing member. Type of climbing you do: Stairs! Highlight of climbing career: N/A.
Nationality: USA. Occupation: Filmmaker. Missions with C4C: Haiti 2025.
How long have you climbed? Since 2019. Type of climbing you do: Experienced in distance backpacking, moderate ability on crags, willing to sling an ice axe. Highlight of climbing career: Pingora Peak, Wyoming.
Nationality: Canadian. Occupation: Part-time Minister and Mental Health Therapist. Missions with C4C: Peru 2025. How long have you climbed? Hiking on and off the last 35 years; have maintained a general fitness level over the years since high school from being a middle-distance runner to doing a variety of sports most days out in nature. I took up distance walking in the last 10 years. My favourite sport is cross country skiing. Come to Canada and do the Canadian Ski Marathon, a distance for everyone!
Nationality: Haitian. Dominican resident. Occupation: Medical school student and Kingdom worker of Climbing For Christ in Haiti; leader of C4C’s New Generation (C4CNG).
How long have you climbed? Grew up in the Chaine de la Selle range. Type of climbing you do: Hiking.
Nationality: U.S.A. Occupation: Parkour coach and photographer/filmmaker. Missions with C4C: Peru 2023. How long have you climbed? Seven years. Type of climbing you do: Classic mountaineering, winter mountaineering, alpine trad climbing, alpine scrambling, backpacking/trekking, ski mountaineering. Highlight of climbing career: Upper Exum on the Grand Teton in a single day push.
Nationality: German. Occupation: Missionary. Missions with C4C: Malawi 2024, Nepal 2024, and Peru 2023 and 2025. How long have you climbed? Hiking I started in around 2010, climbing and mountaineering in 2014. Type of climbing you do: Bouldering, some crag sport climbing, some hiking, nowadays unfortunately nearly no mountaineering. Highlight of climbing career: Climbing Cotopaxi in Ecuador (5,897 meters) with a friend who is a guide, and leading teams up Sincholagua in Ecuador (4,899 meters).
Nationality: American. Occupation: Student. Missions with C4C: Nepal 2022 and 2023.
How long have you climbed? I live in Colorado, so I have been hiking for as long as I can remember. Type of climbing you do: Hiking. Highlight of climbing career: Hiking to the top of Greenhorn Mountain (12,352 feet/1,631 meters).
Nationality: American. Occupation: RN. Missions with C4C: Kilimanjaro 2023. How long have you climbed? First multi-day backcountry hiking trip in Wind Rivers (Wyoming) when I was a young teen. Type of climbing you do: Light mountaineering. Have hiked Mount Rainier, Granite Peak in Montana, and Gannett Peak in Wyoming. A lot of boulder crossing and glacier traversing. Highlight of climbing career: Summit of Gannett Peak with my dad.
Nationality: American. Occupation: Non-profit land conservation. Missions with C4C: Kilimanjaro 2023.
How long have you climbed? 10 years – I started climbing in college. Type of climbing you do: Mostly rock climbing, bouldering, and some sport. Although there’s many peaks around Salt Lake City that I’ve enjoyed hiking. Highlight of climbing career: Climbing my very first boulder problem – the Sugar Cube in Taylor Canyon, Colorado.
Elaine Fallesen and a widow enjoying the moment in rural Malawi after taking a grand tour of her new home, one of more than three dozen homes for forgotten widows rebuilt through Climbing For Christ in 2017. Nationality: USA. Occupation: Women's and Family Ministry/Communications Director, Climbi...