Pamela Pack
Pamela Shanti Pack (born circa 1976)[1] is an American rock climber who specializes in off-width crack climbing.[2] She has made "close to 80 first ascents",[3] many of them in Vedauwoo, Wyoming.[4][5][6]
Pack grew up in Middlebury, Vermont as the daughter of poet Robert Pack. As a child she was a competitive gymnast, but stopped after getting a stress fracture in her spine.[3] She earned a degree in art and architecture from Yale University,[4] and studied painting in Vermont and Paris before setting up an art studio in Seattle.[3] She was formerly an ice climber, until a 2006 attack of compartment syndrome forced her to choose a climbing style that involved less gripping.[2][3] She works as a cartographer, and lives in Missoula, Montana.[1]
In 2009, Climbing magazine gave her their Golden Piton award for establishing Gabriel, a 5.13 crack route on Angels Landing in Zion National Park.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Pamela Shanti Pack", Pro Climbing Ambassadors, La Sportiva, retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ a b Garlick, Sarah (December 2010), "Crack Attack", Rock & Ice, retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ a b c d Moore, Michael (June 1, 2014), "Any way up: Pamela Shanti Pack's climbing career was supposed to be over—until she found a different way to reach the top of her sport", Montana Headwall, archived from the original on March 5, 2016, retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ a b Edelweiss Athlete - Pamela Pack, Liberty Mountain, retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ Barrow, Devon (October 8, 2013), "Pamela Pack Repeats Desperate Vedauwoo Offwidth", Climbing.
- ^ Fox, Amanda (June 15, 2012), "Pamela Pack Makes FA of Vedauwoo's Hardest Offwidth", Climbing.
- ^ "2009 Golden Piton Awards", Climbing, 10 December 2009, retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ MacDonald, Dougald (25 November 2009), "Pamela Pack: 5.13 Offwidth in Zion", Climbing, retrieved 2015-10-18.