Parnters and Sponsors

Petzl and Petzl USA is inventing products and provide solutions that allow sports enthusiasts and professionals to access some of the most inaccessible places,

Petzl is a family business that, over the years, has become the largest European manufacturer of personal protective equipment for those who work and play in darkness or at height. All of Petzl’s products are invented and developed at our headquarters in the heart of the French Alps.

A leader in technical innovation for tents and itinerant bivouacs, Samaya develops tools to meet the demands of mountaineering and expeditions in extreme conditions, whether at high altitude or in polar regions.

Samaya imagines its products in Annecy, tests them at altitude in Chamonix and on the highest Himalayan peaks before offering them to enthusiasts the world over. Our ultra-light 4-season tents allow you to focus on the essential: performance.

Enriched by feedback from athletes Samaya, each product is the result of a long development process in which every detail counts. Making no compromise between comfort, lightness and performance, Samaya thinks sustainably to offer tools whose performance and finish are the result of unique know-how.

The most trusted name in backcountry safety

Backcountry Access (BCA) strives to be the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of snow safety equipment, including transceivers, airbags, shovels, probes, radios, and backcountry accessories. Our mission is to save lives through both innovation and education. By redefining avalanche rescue through disruptive new technologies and by supporting avalanche education initiatives worldwide.

K2 is the original American Ski and Snowboard Brand, founded in 1962 in Washington State. The brand that invented the fiberglass ski continued to innovate, pioneering torsion box construction in snowboards in 1987, and then creating the first women’s-specific products at the end of the 1990s. Today, the K2 brand is focused on the future, one that builds on the legacy of the last 60 years and supports K2’s position as the industry leader in ski and snowboard technology.

Founded over 75 years ago in 1948, Seattle Mountain Rescue is an all-volunteer organization of highly trained alpinists, rescuers, and medical professionals who dedicate countless hours to saving lives.  Seattle Mountain Rescue responds to more than 100 missions every year, in every season, at any hour, and in some of the most rugged and remote terrain in the region. Whether it's a hiker stranded on a cliffside or trail runner with a twisted ankle, a skier injured deep in the backcountry, or an outdoor enthusiast caught in a storm, their mission remains the same: “Everyone comes home from the backcountry.”

Vertical World – America’s First Climbing Gym® provides a unique training facility and specialized programs for youth and adults within our communities. Vertical World opened the very first rock climbing gym in America in 1987 on Elliott Ave in Seattle. The gym was no more than rocks glued to painted plywood panels. Today, with more advanced facilities, Vertical World not only accommodates a variety of programs to learn how to rock climb, but also provides performance and educational programs in fitness and yoga, birthday parties, school or church groups, corporate events, private parties, and youth camps!

Mountaineers Books was established in 1960 by volunteers of The Mountaineers, first to make our climbing knowledge available in the form of Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (the world's best-selling climbing instructional text). That book spawned our publishing division, Mountaineers Books, which has grown along with our Pacific Northwest programs to get people into wilderness areas and build a community of advocates for wild places