Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa
Time & Date: Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 @ 7:30 PM (Social hours and free beer for members at 6:30)
Directions: From Highway 101 at Santa Rosa go west on Highway 12 to Stony Point Road Exit. Go straight from the middle lane at the light onto Occidental Road. The Round Table Pizza is on the right just down the road.
Join the R.I.M. Club for a special presentation by accomplished solo big wall first ascentionist Mike Libecki. At our November meeting Mike will show a series of short films from his big wall expeditions to Greenland, Antarctica, China, Venezuela, Yemen and more. His sponsors (Black Diamond, Mountain Hardwear, MSR, Lowe Pro, and others) have donated a stack of killer gear for a raffle you shouldn’t miss!
Our social hour starts at 6:30 and the meeting starts at 7:30. Bring a friend!
Mike will be showing a series of short films from his big wall explorations, some solo, some with partners. Destinations may include Antarctica, Greenland, Yemen, China, Venezuela and more.
Mike was born near the heart of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California where he grew up hunting, fishing, and camping with his family, as well as excelling in speed mathematics from grammar school through high school. His childhood life planted the seed for his obsession with an utterly adventurous lifestyle that has taken him to all of the continents several times. He is constantly making it very clear that: Death and/or old age is coming… we must live sweet. After all, it is not only life, but the quality of this life.
Now in his adult life, Mike spends most of his time as a father to his angel-daughter Lilliana, and traveling to the most remote, exotic and untouched locations on the planet to pursue his passion of big wall and alpine first ascents, traverses, and other offbeat adventures, many of them completely alone. Libecki has been on expeditions and established multiple first ascents in such areas as Africa, Baffin Island, Greenland, China, Madagascar, Kyrgysztan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Venezuela, Yemen, and Antarctica. He made the first west-east traverse across the Taklamakan Desert in Western China, also known as the “Sea of Death” by the local people.
He’s spent months at a time Soloing first ascents in Greenland, Baffin Island, Antarctica, Africa, Papua New Guinea and China. He and a partner spent 8o days completing a major ski and big wall climbing expedition in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. He is currently reconnoitering such virgin lands such as Franz Josef Land, Russia, restricted Africa, Afghanistan and remote islands in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans , some other areas are top secret at the moment due to government regulations.
