Holly Yu Tung Chen is a journalist, routesetter, and Denver-based reporter for The Click.

Holly is Taiwan-born, and Hong Kong-raised before she packed her life into a suitcase and moved across the Pacific. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Alpinist, Climbing Magazine,  Sharp End Publishing, and the American Alpine Club publications. She is also a contributing writer, and produces a podcast, “the Impact Driver,” with the Climbing Business Journal. Holly received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she received the Bertha N. Melkonian Award for Undergraduate Research and the Humanities Undergraduate Research Award for her work “Don Quixote in China.”

To her writer friends, she moonlights as a routesetter; to her routesetter friends, she moonlights as a journalist.

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