Gary has a totally committed approach to his life of solo arctic journeys with dogs, travelling through some of the most remote and extreme locations on earth in a style that relies on the performance and quality of the gear he chooses to use.

After years of using RAB he provides continual feedback to help with the development of all our cold weather kit.

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Lives in Chamonix and works as a mountain guide and rescue instructor for the PGHM.

Jeff is a highly talented climber across many disciplines; winning the 2008 Ouray Ice Festival and the first spur-less ascent of one of the world hardest mixed routes, Jedi Mind Tricks, near Lake City, Colo, a route that Mercier confirmed to be rated M14.

Leanne is a North Wales based climber and mountaineer, a true all rounder with endless enthusiasm for cragging, ice climbing, Alpine ascents, fell running and expeditions to remote new routes.

In 2004 Leanne started using RAB gear through a range of these activities, providing durability testing, photographs and feedback on the development of RAB womens clothing. In the summer of 2004 Leanne led an expedition to Pamiagdluk Island, Southern Greenland and established three high quality new rock routes on the Baron.

Maya started climbing because she wanted to make a difference and change the way people think about woman in Nepal.

Now with several formidable peaks under her belt she has also achieved many first Nepali woman accents.

Her goal is to climb many more peaks and become an official guide. She wants to use climbing to change the traditional position of Nepalese woman and help her country to develop.

Nils Nielsen loves all kinds of outdoor activities, but his passion is for climbing. Nils is happiest in the mountains, on long routes with snow, ice and rock.

Nils is happiest in the mountains, on long routes with snow, ice and rock. His climbing has taken him many places in the world, but living in Romsdalen, Norway he have all he can dream of in his backyard, both summer and winter. Nils earns his living as a mountain guide, and he is now an aspirant guide (IFMGA/UIAGM).

Including all his climbing in Norway, Nils has put up new routes in Nepal and Scotland, alpine climbing with solo ascents up to M5 and many ascents on Yosemite bigwalls, including solo ascent of El Capitan.

After a Scottish and Alpine apprenticeship, Tom Richardson began climbing in the Himalaya in 1979.Since that time he has climbed extensively around the world and has been on more trips to the Greater Ranges than his age (52years, 55trips).

This includes expeditions to 7 8000m peaks across the Himalaya and Karakoram, both leading commercial groups and climbing with friends .His favourite trip is, he says, usually the one he has just come back from, irrespective of whether it is from a remote corner of western Mongolia or Pakistan or leading a commercial group up Mera Peak in Nepal.

Michele lives in the centre of the Dolomites and works as a mountain Guide and as a member of the Helicopter Mountain Rescue Team.

Michele spent more than 20 years climbing in Italy, France, Austria, Turkey, Nepal and Alaska, but his passion to travel around the world on his own or with his clients, is still strong.

"I like living the mountains in all their aspects and in all the seasons. In the summer, I love walking on the trails and climbing the rock faces along the historic itineraries of the 1st World War; in the winter, I love skiing down snow clad backcountry itineraries, roaming around on my snowshoes or climbing up the sleeping water with my ice axe to discover the magic world of frozen waterfalls."

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Jude started climbing when coming to the UK on an exchange year from Germany as a student.  These days she is based in Chamonix and North Wales. Although Jude enjoys all aspects of climbing her true passion still lies in rock climbing.

“Climbing for me is a magical way of combining physical and mental challenges in beautiful surroundings in the company of wonderful people”

She spent five wonderful years skiing in Whistler where she first got introduced to backcountry skiing and completely felt in love with it. Her competitive spirit also brought her to enter her first Ski Mountaineering race in 2006.

Since then, she has been close if not at the top of the Canadian Ranking, travelled to Switzerland, Argentina, Patagonia and Chile to explore and race and moved to Revelstoke, BC to get access to great terrain and amazing snow.