The Boston Rock Gym strives to be the best indoor climbing facility in New England by offering the best climbing terrain, instruction, and a friendly staff. We believe in our staff, and we believe in the power of making our environment full of energy and excitement by staffing our facility with experienced and professional climbers and outdoor enthusiasts. Our Management all the way down to desk staff and belay staff are high energy positive figures from the climbing community. It is our collective decades of outdoor experiences and climbing adventures that gives our facility a unique dynamic, as well as the ability to serve our customers with an arsenal of climbing knowledge and experience.

Additionally, The BRG is at the forefront of instruction and guiding. We believe in offering our clients the level of expertise that only comes with learning from experienced, trained and certified instructors. An industry leader in certified instructors and outdoor educators, together with The Climbing Wall Association and The American Mountain Guides Association we have helped to pioneer the Rock Wall Instructor Certification Course. Nearly all of our instructors are certified Rock Wall Instructors. Our head outdoor Guide, Joe Lentini has over 30 years of professional guiding experience, and is an AMGA Certified Rock Guide. Our outdoor ascent services are an important part of what we do here, and our our instructors and our outdoor educators are second to none.

Routes are the core of what we offer here at The Boston Rock Gym. If we were a restaurant, the routes would be our menu, and the setters would be our chefs. Following that metaphor, the BRG employs a small staff of 5-star route-setters! All of our routes are set by pro’s with years of experience on the rocks, and at turning the wrenches. Many of our setters have set at local, regional and national competitions and bring a wealth of creativity and energy to our terrain. Our routes are always changing, our full-time setters are in every single day putting up challenging and exciting new climbs for every size, age, and ability.

From all of us here at the BRG, we welcome you to join our adventure, and remember: DISOBEY. DEFY. TAKE YOUR OWN TIME. CLIMB.

Chris O'Connell-Owner

Chris OConnell started climbing with a copy of Royal Robbins’s “basic rock craft”, it remained a strong interest until blossoming into a full blown passion in the late ‘80’s. Since then he's climbed rock and ice through out North America. He is looking forward to many more trips and to sharing the climbing experience with his children.

Most memorable/favorite climbs: This House of Sky- Ghost River, Alberta Canada Liberty Ridge- Mt Rainier, Washington Intimidation- Cathedral Ledge, NH the Black Dike – Cannon Cliff, NH. Pretty much any route he happens to be on at the moment- except for the scary ones.

Gavin Heverly-Manager

Gavin's number one passion is rock climbing, with riding his track bike, cooking and eating vegan food, and music all coming in a close second. He has years of experience in the outdoor industry and in working and managing climbing facilities. He has spent a good part of his professional career in climbing gyms as an instructor, a route-setter, and an all around funny guy. Gavin is always willing to give beta on a climb, and always turning heads when screaming his way through a crux.

Favorite Boulder Problems: Genesis, V3, Horse Pens 40, AL./Something From Nothing, V12 at Great Barrington, MA

Favorite Climbs: Romancing the Stone 5.10ish at Rumney, NH/Recompense: 4pitches 5.9 at Cathedral Ledge, NH

Joe Lentini-Head Outdoor Guide

AMGA certified Rock Rock Guide.

Professional climbing guide since 1976.

Climbing experience on four continents, from The USA to the Himalayas.

Avalanche Level 2 certified.

Emergency Medical Technician Vice President and Team Leader of New

Hampshire Mountain Rescue Service.

Served two terms on AMGA board of directors.

Director and guide of Eastern Mountain Sports Climbing School from 1976-2006.

Dan Alroy-Head NUSCHOOL Instructor

Dan is 31 years old and been climbing since 1993 and instructing since 1995. He climbs trad 5.10d, trad slab 5.10b, sport 5.12d. and boulder v8/9. For Dan climbing is almost too many things to describe. It has allowed him to push his physical and mental limits; and constanlty helps him redfine and challenge himself on many levels. His love of rock climbing has placed him in some fantastic physical and cutural situations; introduced him to people that have affected him in considerable ways; and has helped him explore and appreciate many asspects of himself and the world around him. For many, their chosen activity or mode of excersice is simply something they do, for him, climbing, is something he is, as it has been one of the biggest constants in his life.

Favorite Climb: Well there are way too many routes and problems, in too many fantastic places that I have had the priledge of hanging out on/in that I can't even begin to place preference. I just hope I can go back to all those places and visit a whole host of new places before my time is up...

Al Alpuerto

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Veronica Dale

Veronica was introduced to climbing in 1998. She climbed off and on for a few years, but has been climbing with us consistently after moving to Boston over two years ago. She is a flight attendant, but works as an instructor at BRG on her days off. She always looks forward to her lessons where she can introduce others to the sport she has such excitement, passion, and respect for. If you are at the gym and are looking for friendly shouts of encouragement, beta, or a belay this is the girl to seek out. Aside from climbing some of her other interests include traveling, skiing, taking dance classes, playing the piano, and making jewelry. Veronica's love for nature and the outdoors is one of the many draws climbing has for her. This year she is looking forward to exploring more of New England's' bouldering and sport routes as well as traveling the US and abroad in search of other great climbs.

Favorite Climb: She has had many memorable climbs, but she thinks she'll find her favorite in Thailand.

Dave Watts

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Travis Anderson

Travis has been climbing for five years on the boulders of Cape Ann and Pawtuckaway. Although trad and sport climbing have their appeal bouldering is Travis’s primary focus. Travis has bouldered around the continent from Dover Island in Nova Scotia to Joshua Tree National Park in California. When he is not climbing on boulders Travis works as in instructor for the Boston Rock Gym. He also teaches outdoor education at a local college. Travis is also a professional classical musician and is a Wilderness First Responder.

Favorite Boulder Problems: The Bear, V4, Dover Island NS – Stryder, V5, Gloucester, MA

Maxim Zolotukhin-Head Setter

Max moved to the Boston area in August of 2007 after graduating from the University of Florida. He has been route setting for over 7 years and has travelled the country pursuing his passion for climbing. Other interests include listening to good music, occasionally jumping on the road bike, and trying to get into grad school. GNAR!

Favorite boulder problem: God Module, V11

Favorite route: Rythm X, 5.13c

Ray Giroux

If you are on the wall and suddenly hear random words of encouragement from a total stranger, that's probably Ray. An instructor and route setter for the last few years at BRG, Ray took to climbing fairly late in life, but has still amassed an impressive number of climbing movies and injuries. If you want to make a friend for life, all you have to do is ask him about his routes. Ray spends most of his time staring at the walls, imagining what his true potential might be should he ever get fully healthy, and will gladly pantomime his best guess at how to do any move in the gym.

Favorite Climb: The Thimble (not that he could do it)

Donny Martin

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Sarah O’Donoghue

Sarah has 20 years in corporate finance and accouting, 10 years at health and fitness clubs , and 1 year at BRG. She has been climbing for 3-4 years and climbs in the 5.10 range when she has time to work a problem. In the next year her goal is to improve her sport leading and trad seconding. She has climbed in the French and Italian Alps, Eldorado Canyon CO, Gunks, NC(Looking Glass, Rumbling Bald and Crowders Mtn) and in NH.

Favorite route: Ruper at Eldo

Jim Langill

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Noah Rodman

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Mimi Louxay

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Kate Eisen

Kate has been climbing for five years. Originally a competition climber, Kate now prefers trad climbing, long multipitches and radical boulder problems. She has been involved in various programs with International Rock Climbing School for three years, and is currently a student and a coach. Kate loves helping people of all ages discover rock climbing, and enjoys meeting new people and collaborating while working routes. Outside of climbing, Kate enjoys running trails, skiing, baking vegan treats, making art, and, well, training for climbing. She has many projects for the upcoming season spanning the continent, from Squamish and Yosemite to Gloucester, MA, and is looking forward to getting outside on beautiful climbing days and trying hard!

Favorite Routes: Angel's Crest, 5.10c, 14 pitches, Squamish, B.C.; Standard Route, WI 3 II, Frankenstein Cliff, NH; Tropicana, 5.11a, Rumney, NH.

Hannah Pierce

Hannah is a 21-year-old Paramedic who also works at Eastern Mountain Sports and just spent 3 months working in Ghana, Africa. She has been hiking since she was tiny and climbing for 7 years, got her start at the BRG and hasn’t stopped since!

Favorite Spots: Rumney, NH; Gloucester, MA; Gregory Canyon, CO.

Favorite Eats: Mac & Cheese, hummus, apples and peanut butter.

Favorite Cartoon Character: Cartman and/or Scooby Dooby Doo.

Aleksey Shuruyev-Director and Founder

Aleksey is the Director/Founder of the International Rock Climbing School and the Advanced Rock Climbing Camp. For the past 14 years, Aleksey has developed safety-conscious, well-rounded climbing and related outdoor programs for youngsters. Aleksey has had a lifelong passion for life in the outdoors. As a teen he climbed in the Caucasus near his hometown of Krasnodar, Russia. Over the past two decades, he has also had extensive mountaineering/climbing experience in the Crimea, the U.S., Rocky Mountains, Yosemite, Alaska and New England. A graduate of Kiev University, Aleksey completed the Appalachian Mountain Club Leadership School Program. He is Wilderness First Responder certified.