Chic Scott took up climbing in 1962 and within a few years was pioneering new routes and winter ascents in the Canadian Rockies. In 1968, he traveled to Europe where he became one of the first Canadians to climb serious technical routes in the Alps. Chic was the first Canadian in modern times to climb in the Himalaya, when he joined a British Expedition to Dhaulagiri IV (1973). In 1974, he worked the entire summer on location making "The Eiger Sanction" with Clint Eastwood. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Chic made several significant climbs in the St Elias Mountains of the Yukon. He has turned his energy to writing in recent years and is the author of three ski mountaineering guidebooks to western Canada and three history books.