From America but at truly at home in the Alps, Alpenwild's Chief Adventure Officer, Greg Witt, lives and hikes the Alps between bites of apfelstrudel, authoring books, earning hiking awards and certifications. ...
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Born in the mountains of west Greece, he was raised in the island of Crete since a young age were he fell in love with the majesty of the Cretan Great Outdoors. ...
For Martin, alpine sports are a family matter. Raised in the French alps, he started mountaineering and skiing with his father at the age of four and has not stopped since. ...
Ella grew up on a small cow farm with 13 cows in the Swiss Alps; little did the world know she would have a 10-year career as a professional World Cup ski racer for the Swiss Ski Team ...
Charlie's childhood of mountain biking, orienteering and enjoyment of the great outdoors prepared him for Snowdonia; trekking, wild camping and climbing with his friends in the best and worst of British weather. ...
Cam graduated with a degree in Physics in 2014 and has since applied his knowledge of how "what goes up, must come down" by sking, hiking, and trekking across a wide range of European Mountain regions including the Italian Dolomites ...
After growing up in the Alps and fells of Finland, trekking on her own and teaching at a nature preschool, Sirpa Burgess decided to combine her work and passion. After many years of hard work ...
Tom is a Northern Wales native but feels most comfortable rock climbing and kayaking through rapids. The British mountains, sea cliffs and winding rivers are his second home. Tom has worked across the globe throughout Europe, India, Nepal and beyond ...
Marieke inspired us all as she took a leap of faith and moved from the Netherlands in 2006 to the UK to follow her dream to work in the outdoor industry. ...
Melanie was born in Padua, a city not far from Venice. She first fell in love with trekking when she was living in South America. ...
Born in the heart of the Mont Blanc Range, Léo learned to walk and ski at the same time. He is passionate about nature, sports and music. He also loves to practice and coach various sports such as skiing, telemarking, mountain biking and trail running. ...
Federico was born in Vicenza, in Italy, in the midst of oak forests and springs. His parents tell him that even as a toddler he woke them up at dawn hoping to be taken to the woods and look at animals. ...
Alistair Crompton was first introduced to the Alps on a school skiing trip at the age of eleven and has been in love with mountains ever since. He is a qualified international mountain leader, Wilderness Medical First Responder, and yoga teacher, and has been living in the Chamonix Valley for nearly 7 years. ...
Joe grew up in a small village in the heart of the Swiss Alps, in the hometown of Switzerland’s legendary William Tell. It is his passion to guide guests from all over the world safely to his favorite spots and have them experience the beauty, culture, and food of these Alpine valleys and peaks. ...
Jason grew up climbing the local crags of the South of England, and progressed to mountains, the Alps and the greater ranges. ...
Vivien grew up in the Shetland islands - a wild and woolly place – and it is here that her love of the great outdoors was born. Despite qualifying as a Food Technologist and working for 22 years as a Technical Manager in the food manufacturing industry, her weekend ...
Richard was born in Chamonix, France and has over 20 years of experience working in the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps. In addition to guiding on the trails, Richard is an incredibly talented and passionate cross country ski and telemark instructor. ...
Horse-riding, cycling and trekking are all activities that Emily loves to do. Directed by her passion for the outdoors, Emily has now lived in Chamonix for 11 years and works part-time as a teacher ...
Born in Chamonix at the base of Mount Blanc, Chloé grew up in the mountains. She loves and is passionate about sharing "her" mountains and the traditions of mountain life. ...
Marta was born and raised in a town in the Spanish Pyrenees called Benasque. She has been surrounded by mountains all her life. Skiing, hiking, and climbing have been her hobbies since she was little. Before working ski patrol during the winters in the Pyrenees, she spent summers in the French Alps. ...
Jaime is originally from Spain. He was young when he started taking people to the mountains near his home and it quickly escalated to climbing, trekking and anything that involved nature. ...
Dave has a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Cape Town and worked in vaccine research and the specialty chemicals industry. Eve graduated with a degree in History at the University of Cape Town ...
Tim regularly posts his adventures on Instagram, *hint* you'll never see him indoors, and he is a man as happy as he seems. Tim holds the 'Mountaineering Instructor Award' qualification, enabling him to teach both rock climbing and mountaineering and guide hiking ...
Mel lives in the French Alps, near Chamonix. She has over 25 years' experience of working as an educator, instructor, and leader for many different outdoor and environmental organizations ...
Isabelle was born in the UK but has lived in the Italian Dolomites since 1999 working as a trip organizer, leader, and translator. She has fifteen years of experience in setting up, organizing, and leading small group walking and special interest tours in Italy ...
Max and Kathleen are quite the guiding duo. They have over 35 years of combined travel industry expertise, Max with European travels and Kathleen with United Airlines. Max is a Swiss native and dual US citizen, fluent in French, ...
Growing up in the heart of Snowdonia, among the beautiful and breathtaking mountains of North Wales, Alex, our Welsh mountain goat, is no stranger to big days in the hills. Scouting & camping trips in his youth and sporadic traveling in his teens saw Alex's passion and love for the outdoors and adventure ...
Jim has over 23 years of experience living and guiding groups in the Welsh mountains of Snowdonia. His work has not only been in guiding groups to the majestic summits but has involved a rich mix of leading adventure activities and education, especially about nature. ...
Romain's earliest childhood memories are of harvesting edible mushrooms in the forest with his parents. At an early age he was snowboarding whenever he got the chance. Since that time, he’s always felt at home in the mountains. ...
Taking a dramatic swerve away from an earlier career as a designer, the past 18 years Em has been a social change activist, facilitating transformational change for people and organizations in wilder environments. ...
Katrin grew up in the Bernese Oberland, Bern, and spent a year in the USA as an exchange student. She has worked as a ski instructor in winter and her love for the mountains often leads her to high altitudes. Katrin studied classical music and now teaches piano at a college from spring to winter. She also works in a rope park. ...
Cecilia is Italian and an absolute lover of the Alps. She grew up in northern Italy, not far from the mountains. After spending many years training and working in the UK and Ireland she came back to her home country (and the sunshine!) to guide people through the mountains that she loves. ...
Guy has been living in different regions of the European Alps since 2017 and never ceases to find inspiration and wonder in new valleys and alpine villages to explore. ...
Paul grew up in Ireland before moving to Scotland for university, an eternal student he can now lay claim to four degrees. Whilst Irish at heart he is now very much an honorary Scot as he has yet to leave! Turning to guiding work in 2014 he has guided adventures almost everywhere in Scotland from the Highlands to the Islands by boot, boat and bike. ...
Rebecca grew up in the wilds of Scotland where she developed her taste and enthusiasm for outdoor adventure. Her childhood was spent trekking without paths or trails throughout the remote Scottish highlands ...
Mike has been guiding since 2006, a career which has taken him all over the world from sailing tall ships in Malaysia to rafting in Uganda, trekking in the jungles of Borneo to summiting 6000m peaks in the Himalayas. ...
Sophie is athletic, hard-working, smart and artistic. She grew up in the heart of Wales, covered in mud from riding bikes, kicking a football, or following her great granddad up and over the Welsh hillsides. ...
Irene was born and raised in Belluno, so the Dolomites are second nature to her. She has also lived in India, Spain, Haiti, and Chad. After several years working as a pharmacist, she decided to become a hiking and environmental guide and embrace the beauty in the Dolomites. ...
Becki is an International Mountain Leader with many years’ experience of enthusiastically guiding groups in the great outdoors. She has worked with a number of outdoor centers and as a freelance outdoor instructor in Wales, Scotland and the Peak District, leading groups in the mountains; walking, climbing and skiing; ...
Nicki is a native of nowhere and, as a result, feels at home just about anywhere. She has lived in 7 different states and 5 different countries. Her favorite place to be is in the mountains, especially in the Alps,, where she has guided on the Chamonix -Zermatt Haute Route dozens of times over the last ten years. She also hikes in the rugged mountains of Corsica and leads ...
Sofie grew up on an island in one of Europe’s flattest countries, but that has not kept her from taking every opportunity to spend time in the mountains. At 20 she moved from her native Denmark to Scotland where she trained as a hiking and climbing guide. ...
Carina grew up in the south of Germany, not far from the Austrian mountains—filling her days with skiing and snowboarding in the winter and exploring various mountain ranges on hut-to-hut treks in the summer. ...
Matthew was born in Switzerland –from English parents who came to the Alps to hike and climb. He spent much of his youth roaming the hills and mountains of the Jura and the Alps. In 2002 he started the ASAM (Association Suisse des Accompagnateurs en Montagne) training course, the first ...
Dave is a natural adventurer who has lived in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, the mountains of Snowdonia, and the coastal cliffs of Dorset in the UK. He now lives with his family in the lower reaches of the Chamonix valley. He holds the International Mountain Leader Award, the Mountain Instructor Award ...
Born in the UK, Lou fell in love with the mountains when she discovered them as a young adult. She has since spent her life hiking and climbing in the UK and the Alps, summer and winter, and is now a full member of the UK Alpine Club. Lou pursued her leader qualifications at the same time as working full-time in the charity sector. ...
Jen grew up about as far from the mountains and nature as you can get—in Birmingham, UK. When she first visited the Alps on a university climbing trip, she immediately fell in love with the place. After graduating with a degree in Geography, Jennifer spent the next few years travelling the world ...
Urban grew up in Slovenia surrounded by high mountains, green forests, beautiful rivers and picturesque lakes. Finding peace and connecting with the nature are just few of the reasons for Urban’s active lifestyle. Besides the Slovenian peaks, Urban also enjoy hiking in Austria and Italy. ...
Boudewijn van Doorn is a Dutch and Swiss national, born in the Netherlands in 1970. He moved to Switzerland at the age of ten and obtained an MSc degree in Communication Systems in 1995 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (CH). Always interested in mountains, trekking and sharing his passion for the outdoors, he obtained the Swiss federal diploma of higher education of Mountain leader in 2020 and is a UIMLA member. ...
In her work as an alpine naturalist Simone van Velzen adds an exciting new dimension to your Tour du Mont Blanc trek with insights into the incredibly rich flora and fauna of the Alps. Simone studied Wildlife Management at the Van Hall Institute in the Netherlands. After her studies she left her home country (which is flatter than a pancake) and moved ...
Simon has been living and working in Snowdonia since studying for a degree in Geography. A keen mountaineer and skier, he is also qualified as a winter mountaineering and climbing instructor as well as an international mountain leader. ...
Jolanda was born in Switzerland in a small village between Zürich and Glarus in the Lake Zürich area. Guido was born in the Italian/Romansch speaking, southern part of Graubünden. After working as a technician in St. Moritz for several years, Guido moved to the northern part of Switzerland to work for a company installing and servicing quality control equipment all over the world. ...
Born in London, Louis has used every opportunity to escape to the mountains. From an early age he has been an avid hiker: he got to know the trails of Chamonix intimately when he was a teenager, and has explored the extensive Swiss hiking network in detail in recent years. His travels ...
Steve has been trekking, climbing and ski touring in the world’s mountains for the last 45 years, ever since his first walks as a young boy in Snowdonia, Scotland, Bavaria and Italy. He is based in the UK where he has supported many young people’s first steps into the mountains through his work with the Duke ...
With her parents, Chantal immigrated twice to Canada, but at the age of seven moved back to Switzerland for good. She mostly grew up in a verry little mountain village close to Davos. After graduating from school, she had an apprenticeship as a nurse. ...
An avid hiker and culinary explorer, Elain is passionate about the food of the Alps. She’s the perfect trip leader if you’re looking for adventure, food, and fun—alpine style. Elain combines her extensive outdoor experience with her contagious joie de vivre to help create an ideal experience each day. University degrees in ...
Originally from the flat country of the Netherlands, Ted decided to follow her love for the mountains and moved to the French Alps. This love started at a very early age as her mother still roamed the mountains when she was 8 months pregnant. ...
Growing up in the mountains of Idaho, Jena had two options of how to get to school each morning; ski/snowshoe/hike/mountain bike/dirt bike down to town, or ride the bus for an hour and a half each way. Obviously, she took the more adventurous route. ...
With roots in the Pacific Northwest, Tari enjoys mountain scenery and exploring the outdoors. She loves researching new places to visit and especially travelling with her family in her free time. She’s a Certified Switzerland Travel Specialist and works in the office planning and booking Alpenwild’s Rail, Jungfrau ...
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