July Section Talk - Anna Keeling

Name: July Section Talk - Anna Keeling
Start: 2024-07-11T19:00:00+12:00
End: 2024-07-11T21:30:00+12:00
Location: The Cashmere Club

Schedule

Thu Jul 11 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+12:00

Location

The Cashmere Club | Christchurch, CA

ANNA KEELING
Canterbury Westland July Section Talk
The Cashmere Club, 50 Colombo Street, Sydenham
Thursday 11 July
Doors open: 7pm
Talk starts: 7:30pm
If you want to purchase an alcoholic drink from the bar, you must show a Guest pass. You can pick one of these up inside the room we meet in where they’ll be on a table near the door.
Entry is free and everyone is welcome, you don’t need to be an NZAC member to attend.
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ANNA KEELING was born and raised in Ōtautahi/Christchurch. A former ski and adventure racer, she trained as a IFMGA mountain guide over 20 years ago, fell in love with an American film maker, had a son and has based herself in Salt Lake City, Utah and Castle Hill village since 2009.
Guiding has provided remarkable opportunities and friendships - ski guiding in the Indian Himalaya before she knew anything about guiding, learning the ropes properly in the Canadian Rockies, ice climbing in Canada, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Utah, guiding Mt Kenya with food poisoning, adventures in Alaska, multiple sessions as an Everest wife (including taking their 6-year old to EBC), crossing South Georgia Island and guiding on the Antarctic Peninsula and from a tiny icebreaker in the Arctic, climbing and skiing off various North American volcanoes, mixed feelings on mechanised guiding in Utah, Aoraki and other high NZ peaks, starting her own business in her beloved Craigieburns plus training and certifying guides in two countries. And throughout - dealing with the sometimes tough outcomes of a life in love with mountains.
Now in her 50's, Anna admits that she finds mountain guiding fairly stressful at times and is currently dealing with some burnout from 30 consecutive back-to-back winters. A straight-talking human, she will talk about this as well as about one of her favourite topics - avalanche safety for recreational backcountry riders and climbers.