Bio
Timmy O’Neill is America's most outrageous climber. He has set "gob-smacking" speed climbing records from Yosemite to Patagonia, and has been at the cutting-edge of the sport for over 15 years. He is a world-class slackliner, renowned building solo climber, class 5+ kayaker and dangerously fast mountain biker.

He and Dean Potter set the 2001 world speed record for their 3 hour 24 minute climb of the Nose on El Capitan. O’Neill and Potter paired up again for the link-up of Half Dome's Regular Route, the South Face of Watkins, and the Nose in under 24 hours. They climbed over 80 pitches and 9,000 vertical feet, in less than 24 hours. O’Neill has climbed in remote mountains all over the world from Patagonia to Pakistan to Greenland.

Timmy is best known for his irreverent humor and quick wit, which have been on display at his sold-out slideshows throughout the world and in the films Return2Sender and Front Range Freaks. The film Return2Sender recently won its 7th Best Climbing Film Award in 2005, including Banff, Kendal, Taos, Telluride and Boulder Adventure film festivals. He can also been seen on OLN’s "Ultimate Playground" and Discovery Channel's "Forbidden Zone," and he will be featured in a reprisal of his legendary "Urban Ape" antics in 2006.

Timmy also partners with leading amputee and spinal injury athletes in ascension and technology development, stating, "Seeing my friends overcome their disabilities and achieve the seemingly impossible, feeds my soul and forces me to reach even further!"

He recently made a 7-day ascent up a dangerous route on the 3,000-foot El Capitan with his brother Sean who is paralyzed from the waist down. O’Neill also recently won the 2005 Best Actor Award from the ShootoutBoulder, a 7-minute film shot in less than 24-hours film festival.

Recent Projects
"I just returned from a five city tour of Eastern Europe where I was sharing my unique brand of spontaneous, exuberant humor with the citizens emerging from behind the former Iron Curtain. I called my tour 'Perestroika II with Timmy O' and visited such stalwart cities as Bratislava, Slovakia; Wroclaw, Poland; and Prague, Czech Republic. I climbed buildings and rock while I was there, went whitewater kayaking, drank beer and ate sausage – all with abandon.

"Right now, I'm breathing, emailing, cell-phoning and as always, staying hyper-connected with incessant networking - read all of the above as saying, 'I'm riding my bike, bouldering at the Spot, reading Harper's and Salman Rushdie, drinking coffee and making crude jokes about everything, especially me.'"

Environmental Projects
O'Neill's commitment to the environment begins most days with a bleary-eyed bike ride to a local coffee shop with his requisite personal "to-go" cup. It's either sip-in or sip-out, but never with a disposable cup.

"If there is no other way, I will dig in the trash and pull out a used cup. I'm less a coffee fanatic and more obsessed with supporting sustainable resources, like ceramic mugs and reusable spoons."

Timmy also supports a full-circle approach to the ubiquitous napkins that accompany every food purchase and ultimately get chucked in the trash.

"I bring the stream of napkins home, stash them on the back of the toilet bowl and employ them on the opposite end of the alimentary canal. It’s so cool. I bring mementos of my travels home, and wiping with a Czech bistro napkin is almost like being back in Prague, kind of."

Favorite Products
"I couldn't live without the Patagonia clothing I'm wearing right now. Without it I'd be incarcerated for indecent exposure or, as this is Boulder, I would get an immediate date to go and complete a first ascent on Brokeback Mountain.

"I love all things Rhythm - I'm into casual clothing, i.e. the High Wire Hemp Jeans and the Long-Sleeved Highball Snap Shirt, especially after peeling off some sweaty synthetic layers, dressing down in natural fibers is the way to go."

Recommended Web Sites
timmyoneill.com – Timmy's Web site.
senderfilms.com – Check out the videos Return2Sender and Front Range Freaks.

Quotable
"I love the following quote from Helen Keller: 'Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.' This message cues me to achieve my dreams this moment and even more importantly to dream in a manner that is not impeded by convention or apprehension - GO NOW - LIVE LIFE NOW."