Ivan Kristoff is an aviator, volunteer rescuer, and rope access expert in vertical and aerial operations. He has developed various solutions to improve the safety of vertical and aerial rope manoeuvres. His work in vertical and remote access in extreme conditions and heights has contributed to the development and improvement of safety standards.
Ivan Kristoff initiated the most comprehensive aerial and high rise rope-work services in Canada. In 1993, he found EIGER Rope Access Work Inc. Five years later, the Toronto newspapers, Canadian TV news and magazines, named him the Canadian Spiderman. Ten years later, he became the first person to step on the unreachable places of the tallest tower in the world. His reputation is built over the years by completing some of the most challenging rope access projects in high-rise environment. One of them is the first exterior repair at 1725? during winter extreme conditions and winds above 60km/h.
Currently, he is working on the idea to create an International Vertical Access Network called I.V.A.N., which main goal is to share new trends to the high altitude vertical and aerial world.
