About

Greg Hill

Dec 19 1975
Born in Cowansville Quebec

Lives in Revelstoke B.C with his
wife Tracey, and daughter Charley(11)
and son Aiden (10)

Accomplishments
-Climbed and skied 330 000 ft in march 2014, or a 100 vertical kms. A backcountry odyssey where no area was revisited and lots of powder shredded.
-Climbed and skied 2 million feet in 2010. Averaging 5500 ft a day upwards all year. During this year he climbed 71 mountains, skied 1039 runs, in 4 countries, his biggest day was 23000ft, he had 77 days over 10 grand. Recently beaten by Aaron Rice who toured 2500000ft in 2016.
-Won the Whistler Randonnee race 3 years in a row, 2002-3-4
-3rd place North American Championships 2003.
-Set the Spearhead Traverse record of 4hr1min (no longer the record), and the complete
Spearhead with 11 summits, 20 000ft in 13 hours.
-First NA to climb and ski 40 000 ft in 24 hrs and set a World Record
of 50 100 ft in 24 hours.(no longer the record)
-Possibly First NA to climb and ski Mt-Blanc in a day, 11 hours, 12000 ft.( anyone know different?0
-Pioneered the Northern Monashee traverse, a 21 day ski traverse where
he summitted 21 peaks along the way.
-Pioneered many first descents throughout the Columbia mts, Canada.
-Has climbed and skied 9 of the 10 highest peaks in the Selkirk mountains.
-National Geographic Adventure Magazine 14 amazing adventurers 2006
for his first Million feet climbed and skied in a season 2004-05.
-Climbed 80 ten thousand foot days in 2006-7 season, 990000 ft total.
-Has summitted and skied over 190 mountains.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing” a movie, he filmed, edited and produced,
made the Finals at the Banff International Film Festival and their world tour. As
well as many other international festivals, even translated to Spanish for the
Torello Festival.A shortened version has aired on National Geographic Television.
-He has planted over a million trees.