Johnny
Collinson
United States
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Freeskiing
Date of birth | March 29, 1992 |
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Birthplace | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
Age | 31 |
Nationality | United States |
Career start | 2009 |
Disciplines | Freestyle skiing |
Johnny Collinson didn’t waste any time getting to the top of mountains. As a young child, he’d explore his home mountain of Snowbird, Utah – where his dad worked as the ski patrol director and his family lived in employee housing at the base of the mountain.
In the summers, he and his family – including older sister, Angel, also a pro skier – would climb peaks all over the west, with Johnny summiting Mount Rainier at age four and soon knocking off other iconic peaks like Mount Whitney, Mount Hood and Mount Shasta. By age 17, he became the youngest person in the world to climb the Seven Summits, the highest peak on all seven continents, including the world’s tallest, Mount Everest.