Luis Benitez

Throughout his career as a professional mountaineering guide, Luis Benitez has summited the famed “Seven Summits” a cumulative 32 times, including being a six-time summiteer of Mount Everest. Benitez is currently serving as the chief impact officer for the Trust for Public Land. He holds a professional mountaineering guide accreditation with an Honoris Causa from Colorado Mountain College in outdoor recreation leadership and avalanche science, and an executive MBA from the University of Denver, with an emphasis certification for behavioral sciences and public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. If there is any message that Benitez likes to leave with the clients he works with, it is this: “If you really challenge yourself, you can truly change your world.”