Matt Samet

Matt Samet is an avid rock climber and a freelance journalist, writer, and editor in Boulder, Colorado. The former editor in chief of Climbing Magazine, he has been climbing for a quarter century. Samet is the author of the Climbing Dictionary (The Mountaineers Books, 2011) as well as the upcoming memoir Death Grip (St. Martin's Press, 2/13), about his escape from benzodiazepine addiction and psychiatric misdiagnosis and overmedication.