Majka began guiding in 1998, and today integrates guiding with writing to create a career of sharing and translating adventure. Her most recent project resulted in the new documentary “Waypoint Namibia.” Majka’s first book, Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa, was published in February, 2008 (Shama), and was shortlisted for the Banff Book Award. Her second book, Coffee: Authentic Ethiopia, is scheduled for publication in September, 2010. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and received her BA in Anthropology from Princeton University.

Majka was a founding member of Climb Against the Odds, a Breast Cancer Awareness Expedition on Denali in 1998, and prior to guiding was an instructor for Outward Bound. She has worked and traveled throughout the world from the Arctic to South America, from The Horn of Africa to its Southern Cape, from the Himalaya to Corsica, and tales of her adventures (and misadventures) are frequent additions to magazines including Climbing, Alpinist, The Explorer’s Journal, and Men’s Journal. When opportunity permits, Majka also works as a speaker and shares stories of her quest to make adventure additive, when adventure goes beyond exploration and toward cultural and environmental connection.

Majka currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Mountain Guide Association and is a former Section Chair for the American Alpine Club. She is a certified Rock Guide with the AMGA. Majka splits her time between Boulder, Colorado, North Conway, New Hampshire, and Bozeman, Montana.

Please visit www.majkaburhardt.com for more information.