Welcome to Brian Irwin Media

Brian Irwin is a freelance writer and photographer based in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Also a family and travel physician, Irwin has spent the last decade exploring the natural world and publishing his impressions. From the local Mount Washington to the spires of Patagonia, from the peaks of the Alps to the glaciers of Alaska, his adventures have been exhibited in a variety of national newspapers, magazines and medical journals. His organic, humanistic approach and realistic style have won him numerous national awards for both his writing and photography.

Select past and present affiliations include: The Boston Globe; Alpinist; Rock and Ice; Climbing; Powder; Freeskier; Couloir, Backcountry; the Mountain Gazette; Canoe and Kayak; The Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, The Journal of Travel Medicine; The Drake; Fly Fish America; The Portland Press Herald; American Family Physician; Emergency Medicine; Air Currents Magazine; New Hampshire Magazine; Appalachia; Tourism Golden (British Columbia, Canada); Canada Ministry of Tourism; Bahamas Ministry of Tourism; Weber Shandwick (NYC).

Irwin also currently crafts a weekly health column in his local newspaper, the Conway Daily Sun.

When not writing or capturing images he is active as a search and rescue volunteer on two local rescue teams and works as a ski patroller at New Hampshire’s Cranmore Mountain and in Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine. In addition, he is a member of the Kismet Rock Foundation’s Board of Directors, an organization that teaches underserved children leadership skills through the sport of rock climbing.

His home base is in Madison, NH with his loving family: Lori, Andy, Reid, Ella and Morgan.