Climbing for ROMP 2023
Climbing for ROMP is the Range of Motion Project’s largest global campaign and fundraising event each year. The goal is to raise money to help people with amputation get prosthetic care and increase awareness around the unequal distribution of assistive devices globally. Since 2015, the initiative has raised over $670,000 to continue ROMP’s mission of providing high quality prosthetic care to those who cannot access it.
Throughout the month of September our global community is hitting the trails and tackling their "mountains" to help others gain access to prosthetic care. This is all leading up to our Climb Team heading to Ecuador on September 30th to climb Cayambe (18,996ft)!
Our goal is 33 climbs throughout the month for 33 years of the ADA and together we will raise $33,000. Together, with the 2023 Climb Team, we will raise over $150,000 to directly fund necessary prosthetic care for 100 patients.
Join the movement and #ClimbWithUs or donate! Conquer your climb to help others reach their summit.
We climb for fair access to care.
We climb for change.
We climb for ROMP.
#WhatsYourMountain
Meet The 2023 ROMP Climb Team!
Each year, ROMP brings together a diverse team of athletes both adaptive and non-adaptive climbers to summit one of Ecuador's highest glacier covered volcanoes. This year our team is returning to Cayambe (18,996 ft) after 5 years on Cotopaxi. ROMP's athletes put in countless hours of training and collectively fundraise over $120,000 to achieve one mission: provide high-quality prosthetic care to those without access. Follow these amazing athletes along the way, support their climb, and/or sign up to climb in solidarity with the team.
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"Mobility means everything to me! After amputation, it was movement that got me out of depression and gave my life a new purpose & appreciation."
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"Mobility is a gift and a right. People deserve the quality of life that good mobility provides."
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"Mobility means being able to do what you love. I am stoked to raise awareness for ROMP and help other amputees."
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"I believe that walking should not be a privilege but a right for all."
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Team leader and snack enthusiast. Will stop to pet your dog.
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"Mobility is the extension of my dreams and make me feel limitless."
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Best Known For: Tackling life head-on and making the best out of any situation.
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David Gray (Fort Worth, TX)"Mobility to me means FREEDOM."
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Max Ronkos (Phoenix, AZ)"Creating custom prosthetic devices for people is an involved and intimate process and I absolutely love it because it helps to grant possibility on a fundamental level."
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Nico Calabria (Somerville, MA)"I want to help bring equity to the mobility space."
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Rachael Burks (Salt Lake City, UT)"Good at skiing, better at having fun."
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Zach Friedley (Mendocino, CA)"Movement is a basic human right & for that reason, ROMP's mission is close to my heart."
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Amelia Maggs (Breckenridge, CO) -
Luis Benitez (Denver, CO) -
Jahir Ramos (Santa Domingo, Ecuador)
2023 Climbing for ROMP Partners
Thank you to our Climbing for ROMP financial partners and in-kind support for making this all possible!
Climbing for ROMP Support:
Our Impact Since 2005
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Years Breaking Barriers
18
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Prosthetic Devices Delivered
5,000
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Patient Visits
14,772
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Justin Santamaría * ROMP EcuadorI always try to motivate myself and people around me.
