About

Mischa Tourin - Owner & Lead Instructor

Mischa grew up climbing with his dad at Cathedral Ledge in New Hampshire and at the Rock Gym in Essex, Vermont. He is certified as a Single Pitch Instructor by the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA), an Outdoor Educator by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), and is a trained Wilderness First Responder. When he’s not guiding climbers, he serves as the Outdoor Program Director at a small alternative high school.

  • AMGA Certified Single Pitch Instructor

  • AMGA Apprentice Rock Guide

  • AMGA Rock Guide Course Graduate

  • AMGA Ice Instructor Course Graduate

  • SOLO Wilderness First Responder

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What’s your Proudest Accomplishment on the Rock:

As Vice President of Crag-VT I got to help open Bolton Dome. I took my dad, who hadn’t been climbing in years and my wife, who was 20 weeks pregnant wife up the first ascent of a route I set, Little Wolf. Little Wolf is what we called our daughter before she was born.

I am actually afraid of heights, believe it or not. But working on it year after year while I’m climbing, it’s gotten a lot better now. That’s part of why I started climbing.

What is your greatest fear?

What song goes through your head when you climb?

[Singing to the tune of Time After Time]: If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll belay you. Climb after climb.