Some of the best climbing stories don’t come from following a guidebook. They come from wondering what’s around the next corner.

For more than 25 years, Seth Timpano has been climbing, guiding, exploring, and occasionally finding out the hard way. His adventures have taken him from Alaska to Antarctica, through the Greater Ranges of Asia, and into wild corners of the mountains where the beta is thin, the outcome is uncertain, and exploration is still very much alive.

At this year’s Cookeout Ice Festival, Seth presents Exploratory Climbing: “On the Rocks” stories from a quarter century spent chasing climbs and adventure around the planet.

Big mountains. Unknown ice. Remote places. Questionable decisions. Good partners. And the kind of stories that only happen when you’re willing to go looking.

Some of those stories even lead back to the frozen, little-known corners of Cooke City, Montana.

Come grab a beer from Snake River Brewing and hear what 25 years of choosing the unknown sounds like.

This is what the Cookeout is all about.