Janet Bergman

Janet Bergman, an Ohio native, moved to New Hampshire in 1998 and was soon hooked on the solitude of wilderness travel and the dynamic, gymnastic movement of rock climbing. The logical integration of those two activities was rock climbing in the mountains, so after a crash course in ‘trad’ climbing, she and Sarah Garlick departed for the high rock face of La Esphinge in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, where they brought a bouldering pad instead of crampons and ice axes for acclimatization. Her adventures have since taken her to Argentina, China, Cuba, India, Nepal, South Africa and throughout North America. A self-proclaimed sissy, Janet says climbing in the mountains is when she gets a chance to see that side which shows itself only at the moments when it really seems to matter, whether on a one-day ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite or a first ascent of a peak in the Indian Himalaya.

A development consultant to nonprofit businesses, Janet spends most of her non-climbing and non-office time getting her hands dirty working a patch of land she and her boyfriend Freddie Wilkinson live on in Madison, New Hampshire. She also feels compelled to share the places seen and people met on expeditions when possible, usually doing so through slideshows and freelance writing.

Janet is Sponsored by Mountain Hardwear