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Climb Kalymnos was founded by Aris Theodoropoulos & Katie Roussou with the regular contribution of Carl Dawson.
Aris Theodoropoulos
Aris is a Greek mountain guide, climbing instructor, vertical access trainer and full-time Kalymnos activist. Aris has also authored the guidebook of Varasova in central Greece, a rock-climbing training manual, and a mountaineering manual. He has opened countless climbing routes all over Greece, many of which are classics, and he is in charge of the annual maintenance of routes on Kalymnos. Aris lives between Athens and Kalymnos.
Please click here for his full bio and here for his interview at kairn.com
Carl Dawson
Carl started climbing in 1964 on his native gritstone in the north of England. He spent many years on traditional routes throughout the UK, until he came across sport climbing in the early ‘80s on a visit to Spain. Since then, he has climbed in North America and, prolifically, across Europe. Carl was secretary to the British Mountaineering Council Guidebook Committee during the 1990s, when he edited several climbing guidebooks, including the well-received ‘On Peak Rock’.
Acknowledgments
We are indebted to Nikolas Smalios, Sam Bié, Simon Carter and Yiannis Koulias for so generously contributing their incredible photos. We would also like to thank Chris Craggs for his good cheer and feedback, Katie and Ruth for putting up with us, and all friends and fellow climbers who have contributed photos and support.
Finally, many, many thanks to the following people for their help with comments and encouragement during the guidebook’s production: Adam Ondra, Adrian Berry, Albert Duaigues, Andrea Di Bari, Andrea Minneto, Andreas Schweizer, Andreas Vizeli, Aristomenis Thanopoulos, Aristotelis Mavromatis, Aspasia Dimizas, Ben Hargreaves, Ben Heason, Ben Stokes, Boris Girardin, Bruno Fara, Chris Archer, Chris Frayne, Chris Sharma, Christian Schmidt, Claude Remy, Dave Graham, Dave Musgrove, Eva Avgoustidou-Bié, Fabio Palma, Falk Heinicke, Guillaume Oberli, Gunter Hommel, Hans Weninger, Helene Chastagnol, Jacqueline Welich, JB Tribout, Jeff Achey, Jens Larssen, Joachim Friedrich, John Codling, Kaspar Ochsner, Lars Gilberg, Marco Troussier, Matt Samet, Michael Simpson, Michel Piola, Neil Gresham, Nicola Gatti, Nicolas Favresse, Pascal Etienne, Peter Keller, Roland Hammann, Simon Montmory, Steve McDonnell, Steve McLure, Sven Welich, Urs Odermatt, Vincent Serra di Migni, Xavier Chastagnol, Yves Remy.