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About your trainer

Manoah Ainuu

Climbing wasn’t the obvious path for me. Born in Compton, California to first-generation immigrants from Samoa and Ethiopia, my childhood was surrounded by concrete and congested freeways. Now, my everyday views include vertical blue ice, pocketed limestone crags and the high peaks of six mountain ranges in a 1.8-million-acre forest.

What I provide

I’m super mellow and gentle – that’s my personality – but swinging tools into ice gives me a feeling of power and strength. To help you experience the same, I provide one-on-one consults to help you ice and free climb.

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Black Ice, Reel Rock 15

What I love most is introducing people to climbing. I have led clinics in Atlanta and have taught urban climbers how to ice climb in Bozeman. If you would like to learn more about my work, checkout Black Ice - a Reel Rock film about how "Memphis Rox Climbing Gym" teamed up with me to climb icy peaks in Montana.

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Accomplishments

  • The Rostrum in Yosemite
  • Lurking Fear, El Capitan
  • Liberty Ridge on Mt. Rainer
  • Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome, Yosemite (the First Grade VI Climb in the U.S.)
  • The North Face Professional Climber