Vince Anderson is an American professional

mountaineer Mountaineering or alpinism, is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, an ...

, writer and mountain guide company manager from

Ridgway, Colorado The Town of Ridgway is the home rule municipality that is the most populous municipality in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. The town is a former railroad stop on the Uncompahgre River in the northern San Juan Mountains. The town populati ...

. He and Steve House won the Piolet d'Or in 2006 for an alpine-style first ascent of the ''Central Pillar of the Rupal Face'', (4100m, M5 X, 5.9, WI4), September 1–8, 2005 on Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistan.

Notable ascents

*2003 ''Carte Blanche'',

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, UK, with Yann Bonneville, Manu Ibarra and Jerome Blanc-Gras. *2005 ''Central Pillar of the Rupal Face'', (4100m, M5 X, 5.9, WI4), September 1–8, on Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistan with Steve House *2007 K7 West (6858m), Charakusa Valley,

Karakorum Karakorum (Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум, ''Kharkhorum''; Mongolian Script:, ''Qaraqorum''; ) was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260 and of the Northern Yuan dynasty in the 14–15th centuries. Its ruins lie in the ...

, Pakistan FA of peak with Steve House and

Marko Prezelj Marko Prezelj (born 13 October 1965) is a Slovenian mountaineer and photographer. Prezelj received four Piolet d'Or awards. He won the inaugural "Oscar of mountaineering" in 1992 with Andrej Štremfelj for their new route on the south ridge of K ...

. *2008 House-Anderson (WI5+ M8 R/X, 1000m), North Face,

Mount Alberta Mount Alberta is a mountain located in the upper Athabasca River Valley of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. J. Norman Collie named the mountain in 1898 after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta. It is the most difficult of the 11,000ers from ...

(3619m), Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada. FA of route with Steve House, March 26–28, 2008

Publications

References

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