Lev Pinter, based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, spends most of the year rock climbing and honing his photography skills full time. When the winter approaches his Canadian playground, and temperatures drop significantly in the Bow Valley, Lev seeks out climbing destinations with warmer climates and quality rock.
“I have been climbing for about 16 years, and climbing is my true passion followed closely by photography. I find traveling to be the perfect opportunity to experience new cultures, meet new people, explore and climb new terrain, and find inspiration for capturing images.”
His climbing adventures have taken him around the globe to the USA, France, Spain (mainland & Mallorca), Hungary, Australia, Brazil, Thailand, India, Venezuela and Mexico. Lev enjoys experiencing many different styles of climbing so he can “mix it up, keep it fresh, try hard and have fun!” He took a little break from his latest passion, deep water soloing, to see if the rumors about Thailand’s boulders were true. His stunning photographs appear in our feature story, Almost Paradise.
Adi resides in Brooklyn, NY where she is a yoga & Pilates instructor who draws from her background in climbing, surfing, snowboarding and biking to constantly take the practice of yoga to new and unusual places. A yoga practitioner for over 12 years, Adi is grateful to her friends, the yoga slackers (www.yogaslackers.com), for recently convincing her to finally get up on the slackline and take the practice of yoga in a whole new (and unusual) direction. She believes that balance and strength come from deep inside and the “we are never fully aware of what we are capable of doing until someone pushes us up a notch.”
She wants to give thanks and respect to “everyone doing what they love and trying to influence the world to create change.”
For more info on Adi please visit www.adicarter.com and shoot her an e-mail if you are heading up to the Gunks anytime soon.
Abbey Smith is a Boulder, Colorado writer that has more energy than she knows what to do with. As an ex-gymnast, her athletic style, raw power and willingness to use beta usually reserved for six-footers has earned her the respect of everyone she climbs with. You won't hear her use the word "reachy", although she damn well could.
Weekends will find Abbey marching in top gear to her favorite area, Rocky
Mountain National Park, or jetting off to idyllic zones like Thailand, Hueco, or her new favorite, Rodellar, Spain.
As an editor for elephant journal, she moonlights as a full time climber, insomniac, Americano addict, cruiser bike rider, and eco-warrior. As a truly modern office worker, you can usually find her in her office the Trident Booksellers, a hipster Boulder local's coffee shop where the baristas know her coffee habit better than their own.
Abbey's work has been published in Climbing, Rock and Ice, Alpinist and Urban Climber Magazine. Lately the demand for her words keeps her awake even later into the night than usual, where she feels the most insane—and creative.
In this issue, she documents her sweet (and sour) trip to Thailand where she, along with Ally Dorey, Isaac Caldiero and Lev Pinter, was filmed for an upcoming video produced by Nathan Cando.
One of Jason Kehl's missions in life is to disprove the idea that only the bad guy wears black. He wants you to know that "this misconception has been beaten into our heads by the mainstream media over and over again."
Well, that all stops here.
True, Jason does wear a lot of black but he also enjoys the simple pleasures in life. Like tea and stretching, babies breath and a nice warm egg in a nest. When he isn't out fighting this noble cause, he is usually found climbing on really, really tall boulders around the world or working on new designs for his clothing company CryptoChild. Follow his adventures at www.cryptochild.com UC
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