<b>Adrian Ballinger</b> is a British-American certified <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIAGM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IFMGA</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mountain_Guides_Association" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AMGA</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_guide" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mountain guide</a>, certified through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mountain_Guides_Association" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">American Mountain Guides Association</a> and a sponsored climber and skier.<br /><br />Ballinger is the founder and CEO of Alpenglow Expeditions, and has been guiding full-time for 25 years. He has led over 150 international climbing expeditions on six continents, and made 18 successful summits of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">8,000m peaks</a>. He is known for pioneering the use of pre-acclimatization for commercial expeditions as early as 2012, which can cut the amount of time typically spent on an expedition in half.<br /><br />Adrian is the only American to have made three successful ski descents of 8,000m peaks, including the first ski descent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaslu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Manaslu</a> from its summit. He is also the fourth American to have summited both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mount Everest</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">K2</a> without the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_oxygen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">supplemental oxygen</a>.

Finding Your Summit

Mark Pattison

EP 273: Adrian Ballinger - Guiding and summiting big mountains all over the world!

MAR 3, 202336 MIN
Finding Your Summit

EP 273: Adrian Ballinger - Guiding and summiting big mountains all over the world!

MAR 3, 202336 MIN

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<b>Adrian Ballinger</b> is a British-American certified <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIAGM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IFMGA</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mountain_Guides_Association" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AMGA</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_guide" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mountain guide</a>, certified through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mountain_Guides_Association" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">American Mountain Guides Association</a> and a sponsored climber and skier.<br /><br />Ballinger is the founder and CEO of Alpenglow Expeditions, and has been guiding full-time for 25 years. He has led over 150 international climbing expeditions on six continents, and made 18 successful summits of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">8,000m peaks</a>. He is known for pioneering the use of pre-acclimatization for commercial expeditions as early as 2012, which can cut the amount of time typically spent on an expedition in half.<br /><br />Adrian is the only American to have made three successful ski descents of 8,000m peaks, including the first ski descent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaslu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Manaslu</a> from its summit. He is also the fourth American to have summited both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mount Everest</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">K2</a> without the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_oxygen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">supplemental oxygen</a>.