Link Sar Photo Autographed by Graham Zimmerman, Mark Richey, Steve Swenson, and Chris Wright

About Zimmerman: After being exposed to alpine terrain in the Cascades he moved back to NZ where he cut his teeth in the Southern Alps and became a strong part of the Kiwi climbing community. Then, after graduating from university in 2007 he moved back to the states and has been focused on climbing as it applies to alpinism ever since. This has taken him on expeditions from Alaska to Patagonia to Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan and all over the lower 48 and Canada where he has established dozens of significant new routes on rock, ice and snow. He specializes in complex logistics having run over 30 expeditions and assignments to many parts of the world including Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Alaska, Argentina, Eritrea and Kenya. For his climbing exploits Graham won the 2010 New Zealand Alpinist of the Year and was a finalist for the 2014 Piolet d'Or and won the 2017 Cutting Edge Award from the American Alpine Club

About Richey: Over the years, he has made more than 40 expeditions to the Himalaya & Karakoram. He was President of American Alpine Club (2003-2006). He has climbed all over the Alps, including the north faces the Eiger and the Matterhorn, and mountains in Peru, Chile and Argentina. Richey also climbed to the summit of Mount Everest on his 33rd birthday in 1991. His first ascents include, East Face of Cayesh and the South Face of Oecshapalka in Peru, unclimbed rock spires in southern Greenland and Pakistan, Yamandaka in the East Karakoram, and a fast second ascent of the Shivling East ridge in the Garhwal Himalaya. In 2011, he, along with Freddie Wilkinson and Steve Swenson made the first ascent of Saser Kangri II and in 2019, with Swenson and others he made the first ascent of Link Sar in Pakistan.

About Swenson: Swenson is known for his big-mountain climbing expeditions to the Karakoram range, about which he wrote the book Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict, published by Mountaineers Books. Swenson has taken part in over 15 expeditions to the area. In 2012, Swenson along with Mark Richey and Freddie Wilkinson, made the first ascent of Sasser Kangri II. At the time, the peak was the second highest unclimbed mountain in the world. For their climbing, the team was awarded the Piolet d'Or. In 2019, Swenson, along with Graham Zimmerman, Mark Richey, and Chris Wright, climbed Link Sar, for its first ascent. Swenson had attempted to climb it twice before, in 2000 and 2017. Along with his climbing career, Swenson had a 35-year career as a water resources consulting engineer

About Wright: He is a fully certified IFMGA Mountain Guide, and can regularly be found at work from the Alps to the Canadian Rockies and Norway's Lofoten Islands. His achievements include everything from big walls to virgin summits, first ski descents and traverses, and his guiding career has taken him from the Matterhorn to Denali, and from Pakistan to Mont Blanc. An avid alpinist and expedition climber, Chris has received the prestigious Mugs Stump and Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Awards for his ascents of hard new routes on unclimbed peaks in the Karakoram and the Himalayas, as well as the rest of the world, including the famed East Face of Alaska's Mooses Tooth.