I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE

By Levi Allen

“I Am, Because You Are” challenges the narrative when it comes to creating a culture of equity and inclusion in mountaineering. It shows how we can work together to reduce barriers, create opportunities and extend the invitation.

Mountaineering narratives often focus on conquest, personal victory, and have long excluded diverse faces and stories so we wanted to tell a different kind of story. One that is already happening all around us if only you could be there to see it happening. A community that is forming with a different kind of spirit. Not of competition or conquest, but one of togetherness. We are telling a story that aspiring adventurers can look up to and see their own faces and fears represented in.