Pamela Pack

Pamela Shanti Pack (born circa 1976)[1] is an American rock climber who specializes in off-width crack climbing.[2] She has made "close to 80 first ascents",[3] many of them in Vedauwoo, Wyoming.[4][5][6]

Pack grew up in Middlebury, Vermont as the daughter of poet Robert Pack. As a child she was a competitive gymnast, but stopped after getting a stress fracture in her spine.[3] She earned a degree in art and architecture from Yale University,[4] and studied painting in Vermont and Paris before setting up an art studio in Seattle.[3] She was formerly an ice climber, until a 2006 attack of compartment syndrome forced her to choose a climbing style that involved less gripping.[2][3] She works as a cartographer,[7] and lives in Missoula, Montana.[1]

Her professional sponsors include La Sportiva,[1] Trango,[8] and Maxim Ropes.[7] In 2009, Climbing magazine gave her their Golden Piton award for establishing Gabriel, a 5.13 crack route on Angels Landing in Zion National Park.[9][10]