Last Friday I attended a slide lecture and art show at the Slayards Center for the Arts in Conway, New Hampshire. The event titled, The Art of Climbing was organized by the Kismet Rock Foundation, which is a non-profit that works with children in the outdoors. The slide lecture featured climber Mark Synnott.

For those of you familiar with hanging off rock and ice hundreds of feet in the air, Mark Synnott is a household name. Mark is a sponsored North Face climber and has traveled to and climbed some of the sickest stuff I have ever seen, and for that matter some of the sickest stuff anybody has ever seen. He is one of the most respect climbers of his generation and has claims to first ascents of dozens of routes across the world.

The event was attend by over 150 people and raised closed to $4,000 for the Kismet Rock Foundation and the Salyards Center for the Arts.