Mike Schauch

Mike Schauch
President & Co-Founder, Climb For Change

Live free, play hard, and laugh lots could be used to describe Mike’s approach to life. While he’s always had a love for the outdoors, Mike’s passion for alpinism and climbing sparked shortly after high-school, when a friend and experienced mountaineer asked him to come out and climb a local mountain.  With borrowed crampons, ice axe, and harness, Mike clambered his way to the top of what was to be the first of many summits. The experience was transformational, and Mike knew that his life had changed forever – he was hooked.

The mountains have not only taught Mike what he considers to be some of his most important life lessons, but have also taken him to many remote and inspiring places around the world.

Combined with over twelve years of business leadership, finance, and investment experience, Mike has developed an appreciation for three fundamental truths: wealth is whatever we decide to make it, the world is a giant playground shared by all, and there is no greater value than life – all life. This is the basis on which Climb For Change was founded. Mike strongly believes that the only mountains we can overcome are our own, and since we co-exist with the natural world, we must learn to enjoy it in order to appreciate it, and then protect it.