About

The Nameless Creature is the home of writer, guide, and climber Freddie Wilkinson. He believes that any adventure is only as good as the stories you bring home.

While growing up in the flatlands of suburban Connecticut, I climbed my first mountain –New Hampshire’s Mount Washington – at age thirteen.  When I was 20, I somehow got up Denali via the Cassin Ridge and  Cholatse in Nepal.  Since then, I’ve spent three to four months of every year on expeditions around the globe.  In between traveling, I got a degree in history from Dartmouth College and worked as a climbing guide in New England and Alaska.  2008 was a pretty good year: I twice summited Fitzroy, as well as Mount Hunter in Alaska via the Moonflower Buttress, and Kangtega in Nepal.  In truth, however, I’m probably better at telling stories than I am at climbing mountains… so don’t believe everything I say.

I work as a professional climbing guide and adventure writer. To learn more, please click here.

About the Name:

It’s amazing how beauty, once touched, can turn to pain. The marvels of high mountains always promise a hyperspiritual relationship, buit once approached they surprisingly ask only for blood, sweat, and tears. Isn’t it funny that a similar deceptive charm rules passionate human relations?

– Voytek Kurtyka, Alpinist no. 11.