Phil Powers

03/07/06 Phil Powers Executive Director of the American Alpine Club and owner of two guide services: Jackson Hole Mountain Guides and Mammoth Mountaineering School has joined the project offering to write narration for the film and is excited to pay tribute to Tap who he feels made OB and NOLS possible. Phil has participated in thirty personal expeditions to Alaska, South America, and Asia, including an ascent of K2 and new routes on Denali and in the Karakoram. At NOLS, he led over fifty expeditions, and later, as Chief Mountaineering Instructor, taught expedition planning. He is the author of Wilderness Mountaineering (Stackpole, 1993), as well as many technical articles on mountaineering.