Linda McMillan, Public Relations Manager

A native of Texas who has lived in northern California most of her life, Linda is the wife of Tom McMillan and has been a climber for 20 years. Together they have enjoyed climbing peaks and cliffs in the US, the European Alps, northern Wales, and South America. In addition, she has had the opportunity to climb with international friends in Japan, Sweden, and South Africa.

She worked closely with the team and Peak Promotion in a variety of ways as: public relations and publicity manager, press contact, webmaster, equipment procurer, spare set of hands, photographer, chronicler of the expedition, and a watchful "mother" to the team members during the trek and at base camp.

A business consultant, she also contributes her time to projects for The American Alpine Club and the UIAA (the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation). She has traveled around the world advocating for the protection of mountain environments and reasonable access to them. She works to bring land managers, local communities, and climbers together to promote mountain stewardship. Before leaving Nepal in late April, she took the chance to catch up with some of her mountain advocate colleagues working in Kathmandu.

She and her husband live in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. Her adult son and daughter also live in California.