Jimmy Voorhis

Jimmy has worked with AMS since 2015 as a teacher for youth, leader on mountaineering courses, and Denali guide. Jimmy is a New Englander who, in 2012, moved to Hanover, New Hampshire to pursue a graduate degree in Earth Science. He is certified as a. While he worked on his degree, he spent a lot of time climbing ice. He took three months off in late 2014 after finishing school and spent time big wall climbing in Yosemite and Zion and climbing ice around Bozeman. Keen to climb as much as possible, he moved across NH to Conway to start guiding for Cathedral Mountain Guides. His personal climbing trips into the Alaska Range include the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna; Mt. Hunter via the North Buttress; Mt. Francis via the Southeast Ridge; and on Denali in 2015, where he climbed the Father and Son’s Wall with fellow AMS guide Michael Gardner. He excels in instruction of ice climbing and geology, and exhibits a natural leadership style.