52 Peaks in 52 Weeks FOR ROMP

It was an honor to join the 2025 Climbing for ROMP Team. Our team of 20 adaptive athletes, disability rights advocates, and ROMP patients spent the year training, fundraising and raising awareness about ROMP’s life-changing work here in Latin America.

An estimated 3.6 million people across Latin America live every day without access to the prosthetic care they desperately need. The gap between those in need and available care is vast but not insurmountable. ROMP provides life-changing prosthetic care to thousands of patients in Guatemala and Ecuador. There are over 1,000 people on ROMP’s waitlist - we had aimed to make a meaningful dent in this.

At sunrise on October 10th, 2025, we successfully summited Ecuador’s second tallest peak, Cotopaxi (19,347ft / 5,897m). It was awe-inspiring to see our team grind through cold, pain and doubt to stand atop that beautiful mountain.

The team absolutely crushed it. But I think a big part of that was because summiting was no longer the objective. We knew the expedition was already a success the moment we walked into ROMP’s clinic in La Floresta the week before - seeing new patients going through intake, hundreds of liners and prosthetics ready for fitting, and witnessing firsthand the immediate, life-changing impact of the funds we helped raise for hundreds of people.

As of 12/31/25, our team raised a total of nearly $145,000 for ROMP patients in need.

The Challenge: One summit every week in 2025 (ACCOMPLISHED)

In January 2025, as part of my commitment to the Climbing for ROMP Team, I set a goal of summiting 52 peaks during the calendar year, raising awareness of ROMP's stellar work and having fun with friends in the mountains along the way. With just a few hours to spare on December 31, 2025, I completed an integral that linked three 14ers just outside Quito: Volcán Guagua Pichincha (#50), Ladrillos (#51) & Volcán Rucu Pichincha (#52).

I am incredibly grateful for my Climbing for ROMP teammates, all the donors to my campaign and the friends, family and acquaintances who joined me in 2025. Collectively, we made a world of difference to 100+ individuals that can now access ROMP’s care. You can still donate to the campaign here.

Below you will find summit posts on each of the 52 peaks in 52 weeks from 2025.