ENTOURAGE - #5 > June/July 2005

Chris Redmond
Based in Princeton, New Jersey, contributing writer and photographer Chris Redmond began climbing 15 years ago. Since then, his passion for the sport has grown into a way of life. Chris' home is within biking distance of diabase bouldering, and he has sent and developed many problems throughout the New England region. Known for his long reach, contact strength, and obsession with slopers, He is happiest when working on several big projects at a time, and he can be driven to distraction over particularly challenging new moves. On rest days, Chris is still focused on climbing - spending time coaching and route-setting his local gym. His love of photography puts Chris in his car and on the road for days and weeks at a time, capturing images from all over the country. "When I'm behind the lens, I lose track of time and enter a special place," says Chris. His father, who passed away from cancer last August, was a photographer, whose work was featured in several magazines and Falcon guidebooks, and Jordan, Chris' labrador retriever of fourteen years, passed away from cancer last month. Chris is currently working to create a foundation for climbers with cancer-related problems.

Jacqueline Chiddo
Jacqueline stumbled across the sport of rock climbing in an unlikely area of the country, New York City. Already committed to a four-year program at Fordham University, she began a hectic three-year schedule juggling student life and climber life. Since graduating, Jacqueline traveled and climbed everywhere from Boulder, Colorado to Squamish, British Columbia to Boise, Idaho with her best friend. Stretching herself on one continent wasn't enough, however and she currently resides in Sheffield, England, where she has become a coffee addict and local hotshot. Plans for her future involve more traveling, writing and documenting her adventures, sparking a massive feminist revolution, graduate school in California, big wall climbing and her biggest project yet, cooking.

Frank Corl
Frank Corl spends his days drawing and painting brain dissections and cardiac surgical procedures. As a medical illustrator, animator, author and faculty member in The Advanced Medical Imaging Lab at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, Frank gets his regular climbing and training in at Earth Treks in Timonium, Maryland. He devotes much of his free time to bouldering and drumming and plans on spending time editing the 4-5 hours of Dover Island video footage. As a climber and "full time employee" in a non-climbing related field Frank is lucky to still be able to spend a few weeks a year traveling to many climbing destinations ranging from Nova Scotia to Ecuador. Currently, Frank is gearing up for bouldering trips to British Columbia, Yosemite and New Zealand, as well as many local weekend sessions at The Gunks, Governor Stables, Pawtuckaway, and Coopers Rock.

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