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The One Step Closer Climb for organ donation was a project started by transplant surgeon Dr. Andrew Precht of Swedish Transplant in Seattle. The goal of the project was to put climb Mt. Rainier outside Seattle, Washington with a group of transplant recipients, organ donors, and transplant medical professionals including Dr. Andrew Precht and team...

America’s Snowboard Team 2009 highlight video put together by BCF, featuring footage from Mt. Hood, Oregon training camp and bios of each AST athlete: Erika Mueller, Josh Wylie, Zac Kay, and Chris Klug as they train and prepare for the 2009, 2010 World Cup Snowboarding Season with the goal of qualifying for the 2010 Winter...

A short video done by Plum TV Aspen, Colorado in 2009 chronicling Chris Klug’s nearly thirty years of snowboarding history from his early days learning to ride on Mt. Bachelor, Oregon in moon boots with lots of duct tape on a Burton Backhill and Performer to three Winter Olympic Games, eleven National Snowboarding Championships, and...

A short video piece done by Plum TV Aspen, Colorado providing a view into the training and preparation for the 2009, 2010 World Cup Snowboarding competition season and the “Ride to Vancouver.” In the Plum interview Chris describes how he’s getting ready to ride fast mentally and physically to put himself in position to qualify...

This is a short highlight video of the 4th Annual Aspen Summit for Life 2009 event held December 12th, 2009 in Aspen, Colorado. Aspen Summit for Life is a night-time uphill race from the base of Aspen Mtn. to the Sundeck Restaurant at the top to promote organ and tissue donation and benefit the Chris...

I was in Moab last weekend with a group of friends from Aspen. The weather was perfect, seventy degrees all weekend. It was probably the last mountain bike trip of the season and it was worth it. I rode Gold Bar Friday with about twenty Aspenites. I broke my chain twice. Saturday we did Hunter...

The Third Annual Aspen Summit for Life 2008 was the biggest and most far-reaching awareness event to date benefitting the Chris Klug Foundation. In early December 2008 our education and awareness efforts were centered around a unique night-time uphill race where participants, using their own physical power on snowshoes or skis, ascended 3267 vertical feet...

Ride of your Life is a documentary film about second chances and the heroes that make them possible. By following liver transplant recipient and Olympic Snowboarding Medalist Chris Klug in his adventures on the Snowboard World Cup Tour the past year Ride of your Life demonstrates that transplants work and are now mainstream medicine. In...

A short Plum TV Aspen, Colorado video capturing Chris Klug training on Buttermilk in preparation for the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain? Bike Race in August 2010.

The Chris Klug Foundation (CKF) is pleased to present a Donor Dudes Educational Program, “Know the Facts, Share Your Decision,” featuring a short video about the importance of organ and tissue donation in a fun, fast paced format. The project highlights the facts about organ donation, and the need to make an informed, educated decision,...