The Cold Blue Yonder

Rock and Ice Magazine, December 2017 Steeped in lore, these seven ice lines are true Northeast gems, featuring Majka Burhardt. "On a rare day a climbing team can pack tools away here and hike for the summit. More often, however, in cresting the top of the ravine, you are met with Mount Washington’s crippling combination of arctic cold and wind ... Read More

Climbing For the Greater Good

By Ian Ferguson photos by Gabe Rogel From African alpine jungles to frozen waterfalls in New England, climber Majka Burhardt is comfortable on any vertical terrain. Now she’s using her skills to protect an ecosystem and the people who depend on it. Read More

Patagonia | Essay

“The Middle.” Patagonia. January 2016. View PDF It was 8:45 p.m. when Gilbert made the announcement. “I have something to tell you,” she said. These were the first words she’d spoken to me since I’d seen her an hour before when I set off to lead an ice-choked crack that gave way to a rime-covered slot. Her head had just … Read More

Mountain Magazine | Feature Article

"The Far Side." Mountain Life Magazine. July 2015. "Mount Namuli is unlikely to be notched on any mountaineer’s bedpost. As mountains go, it isn’t extremely high or steep. The 2,419-metre granite monolith in northern Mozambique can’t even boast an iconic horizon line like Argentina’s Mt. Fitz Roy or Switzerland’s Matterhorn. If anything it calls to mind an ancient ruined fortress ... Read More

Gaining | Alpinist Magazine

“Gaining.” Alpinist Magazine. June 2015. Read Online | Download PDF “Cold calling has its place. In 1996 I saw a picture of Kitty Calhoun climbing a dazzling ice wall in an exceptionally fetching one-piece suit, and I decided she and I should climb together. Never mind that I was twenty and had never summited anything harder than Pyramid Peak in … Read More

Blind Runners | Film

Blind Runners | Documentary Film Blind Runners is a 23-minute documentary featuring the 2013 Accelerate Ethiopia, an initiative that produced 179 runners in Ethiopia’s first ever trail race, 871 successful sight restoring surgeries, 1 new library to serve 500 primary school students and a 1000-person rural community in the heart of Northern Ethiopia.  Accelerate Ethiopia was a partnership between Himalayan … Read More

Decision Making with Intuition | Interview

Decision Making with Intuition with Majka Burhardt. MtnMeister Interview. August 2014. Listen Below | View on MtnMeister "Really good decisions that end up launching big things are ones where you’ve used intuition to guide you every step of the way." [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/164110151" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]Listen Here

Backpacker Magazine | Essay

“Norway’s Lofoten Islands: Where the sun never sets, the adventure never ends, if you can keep up.” Backpacker Magazine. June 2014. Dowload PDF |  View Online Slideshow “It’s 11 p.m. when I shoulder my daypack, step out the door of a red-shingled fisherman’s cabin, and head into the sunshine toward the mossy, tundra-covered granite coastline of the Norwegian Sea. A … Read More

Huffington Post | Profile

"Professional Climbers Aid Scientific Discovery in Southern Africa."Huffington Post UK.  June 8th, 2014. It's not everyday that you hear of world-first rock climbing ambitions meet with scientific research on the same perilous face in Southern Africa. But for a group of professional rock climbers and international scientists, Mozambique's Mt. Namuli set the stage for such a collaboration - The Lost ... Read More

Delta Sky Magazine | Essay

"Surfing in Sayulita." Delta Sky Magazine. June 2014. “I’ve spent seven of the past 12 months on the road, climbing granite spires in Norway, speaking about Ethiopian coffee in the Netherlands and producing an adventure, science and conservation film project in Mozambique. My travels take me many places, but hardly ever to the beach. So in December I stuffed four bikinis into a carry-on and booked a trip ... Read More