Mountain Project

Mountain Project
Founded 2005 (2005)[1][2]
Headquarters Boulder[1][2], US
Founder(s) Nick Wilder and Andy Laakmann[1][2]
President Mike Ahnemann[3]
CEO Nick Wilder[1][3]
Employees 7 (in 2015)[1]
Parent Adventure Projects Inc. and REI
Website www.mountainproject.com
Users 3M (unique visitors in 2014)[1][4]

Mountain Project is a website which serves as a guidebook to more than 139,000 climbing routes across the world.[5] The website is operated by Adventure Projects Inc.,[6] a Boulder-based company, founded by Nick Wilder and Andy Laakmann in 2005 and purchased on June 11, 2015 by REI.[1][2] Adventure Projects Inc. has since expanded by creating MTBProject.com a website for mountain bike trail maps, HikingProject.com for hiking trails, PowderProject.com for backcountry skiing trails and TrailRunProject.com for cross-country running trails.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Winkel, Vince (June 19, 2015). "REI buys Boulder-based outdoor adventure trail company". Times-Call. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Clucas, David (June 11, 2015). "REI acquires Adventure Projects network of sites". SNEWS. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 "CrunchBase entry for Adventure Projects Inc.". CrunchBase. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "CrunchBase entry for Mountain Project". CrunchBase. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Route Guide". mountainproject.com. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Adventure Projects Inc.". adventureprojects.net. Retrieved 17 February 2016.


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