Mallorie Estenson is an alpine guide, climber, writer and skier living in the Pacific Northwest. She’s known for her passionate love of climbing and her rambunctious sense of humor. To keep her priorities in order, she tattooed: What Would Fred Beckey Do? to the inside of her arm. She’s known for unusual choices in climbing footwear and once appeared in a short film about Croc climbing. In her professional life, she aspires to obtain IFMGA certification through the American Mountain Guide Association and savors any opportunity to empower women with mountain skills.
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Glacier Peak Ski – Cool Glacier Headwall Solo: Mountain Yelp Review (5 Star)
I spent the majority of the ascent in a cloud and wrapped up in my thoughts. Just as I got to the col, the sun popped, god smiled down upon me and if there were animals on the mountain they would’ve started singing like something out of Snow White.
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Infinite Bliss: Not the infinite choss I expected (4 Star)
It’s not very often that you get to clip bolts in an alpine setting for 23 consecutive pitches with very few B.S. walking pitches to link up the route. I guess you could say that I consider myself a connoisseur of alpine bolts (or a lazy alpinist.)
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Mal’s Mountain Yelp Reviews
Short, sweet, sarcastic little anecdotes about my alpine endeavors.
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Late Stage Quarantine
At one point, I discovered that I could crawl out of a window and onto the top of my house. Standing there in a slight breeze, I felt a simulated sense of what it’s like to summit a mountain.
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A Frozen Moment
I tried to place a screw in thick ice covered by a layer of slush. The screw wouldn’t go in. I tried a second screw. And this is how I simultaneously clogged and eliminated two screws from my rack. When I realized that I wasn’t going to get a screw where I wanted one, I willed myself to climb higher to find a better placement.
