Phil Powers

Phil Powers is a Senior Partner with Brimstone Consulting Group. His background spans thirty years of not-for-profit leadership through owning and operating his own business – The Mountain Guides – since 1998.

Powers has led dozens of expeditions to South America, Alaska and Pakistan’s Karakoram Range. Successes include ascents of K2 and Gasherbrum II without supplemental oxygen and seven ascents of South America’s highest peak, Aconcagua. He made the first ascent of the Washburn Face on Denali, the first ascent of Lukpilla Brakk’s Western Edge in Pakistan, and completed the first winter traverse of the Tetons’ Cathedral Peaks

He served on the boards of the American Mountain Guides Association, the Access Fund, the Colorado University Altitude Research Center, the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum and as a member of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Advisory Group. He is currently on the board of Ascend Athletics and is the North American representative to the International Union of Alpine Organizations (UIAA) as a member of the Management Committee.