Co-Director / Expedition Leader
ZIVIA BERKOWITZ
Zivia Berkowitz is a professional rock climbing guide and outdoor educator working with the National Outdoor Leadership School and other community organizations. Currently based in central Wyoming, Zivia has been climbing, working, and traveling in the western parts of the US over the past four years. Zivia comes from a multiracial and multicultural background, Zivia’s mother immigrated from Kenya to the U.S. and Zivia’s father is Jewish American.
As an undergraduate student at Colorado College, Zivia was transformed by critiques of power, nuanced discussions of identity, and feminist thinkers calls for collective liberation in the Feminist and Gender Studies department. Zivia is passionate about building community and storytelling amongst folks who hold identities that are underrepresented in the outdoor industry.
Climber
SOF PETROS
Sof Petros is a professional rock climbing guide, community organizer, and trainer.Her family connects Sof to the lands of Ayiti-Kiskeya-Bohio (Haiti), Chile, and the Mediterranean. After living abroad and across the mountain west, Sof found the mountains and ocean of the Pacific Northwest felt most like “home.” Now based in Seattle, Sof is an AMGA Certified Single Pitch Instructor and Apprentice Rock Guide, working across community and commercial initiatives. During the winter season, they teach avalanche awareness programs with the Northwest Avalanche Center, and are an alpine ski instructor at Stevens Pass where they also lead for EDGE Outdoors.
She is an experienced and capable environmental educator and organizer, with a background in fossil fuel divestment campaigns and passion for building community and youth power towards liberation and a world beyond extraction. Sof climbs to connect more deeply with the landscape and to have a testing ground for exploring their relationship with their body, fear, and joy. Time spent in the city includes organizing with the Democratic Socialists of America, drinking good espresso, sniffing out local music, and pursuing graduate study at the University of Washington.
Climber
ROSEMARY SAAL
Currently based in Northern California, Rosemary Saal is an outdoor educator, adventure enthusiast, and speaker passionate about sharing the empowering nature of wild spaces with folks of all backgrounds. This passion has taken Rosemary around the world on expeditions to mountains big and small, including Denali, Kilimanjaro, and Mount Everest.
Rosemary values the power of creating opportunity for all folks, particularly women of color, to build a personal relationship with recreating outdoors via the support of a strong team, the joy of connection, and of course some dancing on the trail.
Co-Director / Producer
JASMINE SZYMPRUCH
Jasmine is a queer artist-activist & communal storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY on unceded Lenape land, devoted to unearthing varied perspectives of what it is to be human and strives to center joy, liberation, healing, and a reclamation of our relationship to the land in their pursuits.
Documentaries Jasmine helped produce have been distributed by Netflix, Apple TV, HBO, Disney+, and PBS; and featured at Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, DocNYC, and others. They have contributed to numerous panels organizing around social and environmental justice work and they are a founding member of the independent media group, The Irregulars Collective. Jasmine is currently pursuing their Single Pitch Instructor Certification and was a 2024 recipient of AMGA & Black Diamond’s SPI Affinity Scholarship.
Producer
CHEYENNE SMITH
Cheyenne Smith is an award-winning documentary & commercial producer working at the intersection of storytelling, creativity, business and strategy. Drawing on her background in startups and business, she brings a cross-functional mindset to every project, collaborating with directors, creatives, brands, and value-aligned teams to realize shared goals.
Cheyenne thrives where good ideas meet thoughtful execution.
When she’s not behind the scenes, you can find her chasing her own adventures: climbing, highlining, skiing, and exploring the world with curiosity and purpose.
DP
MIYA TSUDOME
Miya is a photographer and filmmaker with a creative focus on stories and images from the great outdoors, whether documenting historic ascents on El Capitan, helping share stories about the intersections of identity and climbing, or focusing on environmental issues in the places she cares most about. She has worked all around the globe, keeping up with athletes in all kinds of environments, possessing a high level of athletic and technical climbing skills herself. She also has a wide range of production and assisting experience in the photo and video world, having interned with acclaimed photographer Corey Rich in 2021 with his production company, Novus Select.
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When she’s not dangling off the side of El Cap to capture meaningful ascents or running around the Eastern Sierra to help tell the story of climate change, she can be found hanging out at home with her 18-year-old cat, Stella.