Mark Richey (born 1958) is an American rock climber and alpinist with a history of significant first ascents around the world, and for which he won the Piolets d'Or, the highest award in mountaineering, in 2012 and in 2020.
[3] Richey began climbing at age 15 in the Boston area and has completed more than forty expeditions to the Greater Ranges.
[6][7] The second was for the first ascent of the southeast face of Link Sar (2,300-metres, M6+, WI4, 90 degrees) in 2019, with Swenson, Chris Wright, and Graham Zimmerman.
[8][9][10] Richey began his woodworking career as an apprentice to a master harpsichord builder named William Dowd.
[3] The company now employs about 100 and is based in a 130,000-square-foot plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, that is largely powered by wind and solar energy and a biomass furnace.