Why Climb?

A slideshow by Janet Bergman
"Elemental: Life as a Mountain Junkie"

'Why climb?' Over her ten-year tenure living life like a 'mountain junkie', Janet's reasons have ranged from adventure to escapism to feminism to romance.

Join Janet Bergman, a local climber, writer and Eastern Mountain Sports Climbing School guide for a slideshow about her efforts to satiate the obsession...and realize that some questions just don't need to be answered. Includes images and stories from recent climbing excursions to Argentina, Nepal, Peru and throughout New England. 

This Saturday May 10, 7pm at the Legends Room in the Eastern Slope Inn, North Conway

Admission $5, free with a receipt from EMS

Find out more about Janet HERE

Read a recent article posted on Outside Magazine Online titled,
"Babes on Belay", about local women climbers Anne Skidmore, Sarah Garlick, Janet Bergman and Sheyna Button. The article was written by Elizabeth Weil for nationwide release in April, 2005.