A full-time mountain guide, expeditionist and founder of Alpenglow Expeditions, Adrian has over 15 years of experience and has summited some of the world’s tallest mountains. He is a fully certified IFMGA/AMGA guide (one of 70 in the USA), certified through the American Mountain Guides Association. Adrian is also a ski, ice and rock guide in his hometowns of Squaw Valley, California and Chamonix, France.

His list of accomplished summits includes multiple ascents of Everest, as well as Lhotse and Manaslu.

Adrian Ballinger wears Lewi, Jetty, Rhino and Hard Kore in our darkest lens tint, G12 to help combat the extreme conditions he faces atop the worlds tallest peaks.

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