2011 Mountainfilm in Telluride: Tim DeChristopher, "Bidder 70"
[click "Play" to listen to Tim DeChristopher's conversation with Susan]
Tim DeChristopher could be the poster boy for the 33rd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride. Not only does he embody Mountainfilm's motto, "Celebrating the Indomitable Spirit," Tim is the exclamation point on the theme of the 33rd annual event: Awareness Into Action!
Tim DeChristopher was born in West Virginia, but spent most of his childhood in Pittsburgh, PA. He began his college education at Arizona State, but dropped out and moved to Utah to to work in a wilderness training program for at-risk youth. He then attended and graduated from the University of Utah.
Tim was moved to activism after attending the Stegner Symposium in 2008 and then speaking with Terry Root, PhD, one of the lead scientists on the International Panel on Climate Change and winner (with Al Gore) of a Nobel Peace Prize. Months after meeting Dr. Root, a little over three years ago, in December 2008, in the waning days of the Bush administration, a then 27-year-old Tim DeChristopher put it all on the line.