About me

I grew up in Mon­treal where I stud­ied cre­ative writ­ing at Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­sity while I pur­sued adven­tures in fash­ion and dance music all over the city’s hop­ping night­club scene. I first vis­ited Banff, in the Cana­dian Rock­ies, in the early 1980s, and fell com­pletely in love with the moun­tains and moun­tain life. I’ve lived in the Banff/Canmore area ever since.

I started writ­ing about moun­tain life in the mid-1990s, and since then I’ve con­tributed arti­cles about adven­ture and moun­tain his­tory, cul­ture and peo­ple to mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers reg­u­larly, includ­ing Explore, West­world, Gripped and up! (West­Jet) mag­a­zines, the Rocky Moun­tain Out­look, Whistler Pique News­magazine, Jasper Fitzhugh and Cal­gary Her­ald. I also edit the Alpine Club of Canada Gazette.

When I’m not work­ing as a full time free­lancer, I’m out­side ski tour­ing, climb­ing, back­pack­ing, and well, doing research! And I’m always keen to explore big­ger adven­tures in writ­ing projects and in the fas­ci­nat­ing out­door world.