<b>David Chaundy-Smart</b> has been climbing since 1975 throughout North America and Europe. He has completed hundreds of new routes in eastern Canada and is the founder of <i>Gripped, Canada&#8217;s Climbing Magazine, Canadian Running Magazine, Canadian Cycling Magazine</i> and <i>Triathlon Magazine Canada</i>. He is also the author of five climbing guidebooks; a memoir entitled <i>A Youth Wasted Climbing</i> (RMB, 2015), short-listed by the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in 2015; and the climbing novel <i>Above the Reich</i>, published by Imaginary Mountain Surveyors. He lives in Toronto, where he is the editorial director of Gripped Publishing and is still an active new router in northern Ontario.