Marmot’s sponsored professional mountain guides carry forward the brand’s proud heritage of ‘Born Professionally’. In the tradition of European mountain guiding, many of our pro guides are either AMGA or IFMGA trained or certified. They are committed to client care and work with some of the most respected mountain guide services in the world today.
Adrian Ballinger is an IFMGA/AMGA fully certified guide and the founder of Alpenglow Expeditions. Adrian has been guiding full-time for the past 15 years, and focuses on high-altitude mountaineering, big mountain skiing, and rock and ice climbing. He has summited 8,000 meter peaks ten times, including five summits of Mt. Everest, and recently completed the first complete ski descent of Manaslu, all while guiding. Adrian is based in his trilogy of "hometowns" - Squaw Valley, Chamonix, and a tent in the Himalaya.
Ruedi Beglinger is the founder of Selkirk Mountain Experience in Revelstoke, BC, Canada, where he lives with his family at the Durrand Glacier Chalet. He guides ski-touring and powder skiing in the Northern Selkirk Mountains from November until April, then guides ski mountaineering trips in the European Alps, and during the summer months guides mountaineering and alpine rock climbing in Canada.
Born in Switzerland of Indian parents Zahan grew up with the Himalayas in his blood, and the Alps in his back yard.
Musician/climber for the past 35 years. Grew up in California but lived in Europe most of my life. First and only American UIAGM guide in Italy. Full time international mountain and ski guide for the past 15 years. Multiple first ascents in Europe, climbing experience worldwide in North and South America, Asia, Africa and Europe.
Keith Garvey is the founder and head guide of All Mountain Adventures, a guide service that offers climbing and skiing adventures around the world.
With 25 years of guiding experience, Angela is one of the most experienced and active women in the profession. She was the 6th woman in the U.S. to become a fully certified IFMGA Mountain Guide through the AMGA. Angela’s based in Ridgway, Colorado but travels the world for work and play.
Dick Jackson is an internationally certified IFMGA/AMGA Mountain Guide, a USHGA T4 certified tandem paragliding instructor, adventure photographer, AIARE/AAA avalanche educator and owner/operator of Aspen Expeditions.
Born and raised at the foot of the Tetons, Mark grew up on skis following his father as he was doing research on snow and avalanches. After finishing college and exploring Asia for a year, Mark returned to Jackson, took up mountaineering and started exploring the relentlessly vertical terrain of the Teton backcountry. It wasn’t long before he combined his mountaineering instincts with his ski abilities to tackle steep lines that had not yet been descended on skis. Continually raising the bar, he eventually completed first descents of the Hossack-McCowan Couloir and Otter Body routes on the Grand Teton, and high-altitude descents in Asia that included Shishapangma’s Unsch Couloir (26,000’) and Sepu Kangri (23,000’). Mark was the lead avalanche hazard forecaster and operations manager for Valdez Heli-Ski Guides until 2000 and 2005 respectively.
IFMGA/AMGA fully certified guide and currently Co-Owner, on the Board of Directors and Vice President of Operations at Exum Mountain Guides based in Jackson, WY.
Exum Mountain Guide and former U.S. Marine Corps Infantry and Security Forces.
Christian Santelices believes that experiencing nature first hand has the power to transform people's lives. As a fully certified IFMGA/UIAGM Mountain Guide, professional photographer, public speaker, writer, and community activist, his career has been dedicated to helping facilitate this process. During the summer months you'll find him working in the Tetons as a Senior Guide for Exum Mountain Guides. The rest of the year he teaches avalanche courses, ski guides, and leads custom adventures and corporate community building retreats worldwide through his guiding company Aerial Boundaries.
Miles Smart is an UIAGM Mountain and Ski Guide living in Chamonix, France. He has skied and guided numerous steep ski descents around the Alps and worldwide, established many speed climbing records on El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley, and has participated in a number of expeditions to the Himalaya and the greater ranges.
Liz Oakes Smart is an UIAGM Mountain and Ski guide based in Chamonix, France. She grew up skiing in Aspen CO and has since traveled the globe pursuing steep ski mountaineering and mountain climbing- Jackson local Jim Williams could truly be called a guide's guide. Simply, there's no one better, nor more experienced. With a career that has spanned three decades, all continents, and many of the world's hidden corners, Jim has forgotten more campfire stories than most of us remember. Competing equally with stories about his far-flung accomplishments is his renown as an extraordinary chef.
