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Princeton University Alumni | Princeton Journeys September 2023 Read It Here

Fortune May 2023 I’m the founder and executive director of Legado, an international organization that works to advance climate justice. I am also a professional rock, ice, and mountain climber. Seven years ago, I thought my job was to help protect global biodiversity. Then I had twins, and everything changed. Read More Here

More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood April 16, 2023 Majka Burhardt is a professional climber, certified climbing guide, conservation entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker; she is also the founder and executive director of the international conservation and development organization Legado. Her work and projects have been featured in the New York Times, The Economist, Outside Magazine, The Weather Channel, NPR and ... Read More

Outside: Climbing March 2023 A new memoir by alpine guide Majka Burhardt gives readers an honest look at the highs and lows of parenting as a full-time climber. Before 2016—the year that everything changed—Majka Burhardt spent nearly two decades building a life most of us dream of. She was a professional athlete and international alpine guide. She was paid to ... Read More

MUTHA Magazine March 2023 Majka Burhardt is a mother, climber, writer, and conservationist. I keep scrolling through her climbing photos in awe: Majka, in a hot pink helmet, clawing her way up a turret of ice. Majka, palms dusty with chalk, wedged into a narrow crevice far above the earth. Speaking with her, it was immediately clear that Majka is ... Read More

November 2022, by Casey McDermott Life on the Edge Majka Burhardt’s paths as a parent and professional climber are chronicled in forthcoming memoir. Majka Burhardt has spent decades scaling craggy, icy, bone-chilling peaks across the globe, from Namibia to New Hampshire to Nepal. And when she first started her journey to motherhood, she always envisioned that she’d be able to ... Read More