Steve Schneider

Head Rigger

Steve is a climber and a rigger. As a career climber he has put up over one hundred first ascents in California, redpointed 5.14, climbed the 3,300 foot El Capitan three times in a day and once in 4 hours and 48 minutes in total he has climbed EL Cap over one hndred times. He has competed nationally ranking in the top ten finishes numerous times and set courses for national and international climbing competitions. He has made record speed ascents of many routes on that massif as well as the rock towers of Patagonia. He served on the Yosemite rescue team for nine years and is a certified Wilderness First Responder. Steve is a certified rock guidewith AMGA, American Mountain Guides Association and is the owner and operator of Blonds Ambition Guiding. Steve has performed and rigged with Project Bandaloop since it's inception in 1991.

Check out his website at www.blondeambitionguiding.com

Cranes in Mumbai

March 8, 2010
From Vancouver where I am working with Julia Taffe's Aeriosa dance company on the public library, I want to say a word about Mumbai. Our Whirlwind trip there was fantastic and we put together a show on the Maker Maxity buildings and on two cranes for an event March 6th. The dancers rallied from the couch to perform amazingly in three separate pieces. During rehearsals on the cranes, a couple of women construction workers in bright saris with their two tiny daughters on hand, grew big smiles seeing their American sisters show such courage and beauty. Between wonderful aromatic meals and walks on the Juhu beach, the company worked hard to make our first Mumbai show fantastic. All in a weeks work.

– Amelia