Internationally certified as a mountain and ski guide (UIAGM / IFMGA) by the Technical University of Munich in 1986, he was granted reciprocity by the American Mountain Guides Association in 1997 and the Canadian Mountain Guide Association in 2000 as a certified Rock, Alpine and Ski Guide. The UIAA Expedition Commission appointed him twice to lead their International Mountaineering Camps, 1993 in Pakistan and 1997 in China. In a former life, he took advantage of his graduate business degree and a CPA diploma by working for an international business consulting firm in Frankfurt and Chicago.

Jörg bases himself for most of the year in Canmore in the Canadian Rockies. He can also be found quite often in the Alps, in Colorado or in Revelstoke BC, where he is putting in first tracks as a helicopter-ski guide for Canadian Mountain Holidays. He speaks German, English, French and some Italian.

Rinaldo Borra

Rinaldo Borra

Like most of us, Rinaldo is on the move a lot. A native Swiss from Stalden, (just down the road from Zermatt) he has made the Canadian West his second home, where he spends a large part of the winter in Revelstoke, B.C. as a helicopter-ski guide for Selkirk Tangiers. However, a busy guiding schedule makes for several transatlantic trips a year between his home ranges in the Western Alps and North America.

Rinaldo has an impressive list of guiding and skiing related certifications to his credit: Internationally certified (UIAGM / IFMGA) as a mountain & ski guide in Switzerland in 1992, certified ski instructor in 1993 and snowboard instructor in 1996. He is also an active instructor and examiner in the Swiss mountain guide certification process.

Rinaldo's climbing resume stands for diversity: Aside from countless peak ascents and ski traverses in the Western Alps, he summitted Gasherbrum, Mount Logan, did remote ski traverses in the Cascades and enjoys hard rock climbs anywhere in the world. Being Swiss, he speaks (Swiss-)German, French, Italian and of course English. His friendly, ever cheerful personality gets him through even in places where he doesn't happen to speak the language!

 

Martino Peterlongo

Martino Peterlongo

Martino is a true climbing afficionado from his early youth on. Born and still at home in Trento, northern Italy, he calls the Dolomites and the mountains around the Garda Lake his home turf. Nevertheless, Martino is also well familiar with the western Alps and particularly the Mont Blanc range, where he climbed many of the hard classics, such as the Hyper and the Supercouloir at the Mont Blanc. At home in the Dolomites he managed a free ascent of the "Weg durch den Fisch" at the Marmolada South Face in the Dolomites - still one of the hardest alpine rock routes in the Dolomites.

Martino has also a Masters in Sociology, however since he gained full IFMGA certification in 2000, he works full time as a mountain guide, either in the Alps or in Canada, where he has spent two summers in the services of Yamnuska Inc. Aside from his native Italian, Martino speaks English and German fluently.

 

 

 

Diny Harrison

Diny Harrison

Originally from Ontario, Diny came to mountaineering at the age of 14. After completing the classic career steps of a climbing and ski bum in the Canadian Rockies, Diny moved on to become the FIRST woman in North America to receive full international mountain guide certification in 1992. Since then she has guided full time both in Europe and Canada, where she is currently the assistant manager for the Revelstoke operation of CMH heli-skiing. To add another superlativ to Diny's resume, she is the past president of the Canadian Mountain Guide Association (ACMG) and the Canadian Avalanche Association (CAA).

More important to her personality than formal credentials are Diny' s many talents. Celebrated artist (trained and degreed by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Alberta College of Art), animated joke teller (especially the dirty ones) and best yodler outside the lederhosen world. While Diny can communicate anywhere in the world, she speaks very well French, German and lately Italian.

Brian Webster

Of the many guides based in the Canadian Rockies, Brian is one of relatively few who were actually born there. He started skiing and climbing in his early childhood and lived 5 years in Jasper before returning back to his home town Canmore. Not too surprisingly he is a true "connaisseur" of the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Ranges. But Brian has also spent a lot of time travelling worldwide to satisfy his climbing habit: Expeditions to Kirgistan, extensive rock climbing trips to the U.S. or two winter seasons of heli-ski guiding in India. In spite of the lifestyle of a full-time guide with two young children, Brian is as enthusiastic about climbing as ever and loves to explore first ascents or seldomly repeated routes in difficult rock or ice.

Brian holds UIAGM / IFMGA certification from the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) and has more than 10 years of experience as a full time mountain guide, recently also as an examiner / instructor in the Canadian guides certification program.

Flory Kern

Flory Kern

A native German from the Black Forest, Flory's great passion is skiing! Since one winter a year was not enough for him, he spend quite some time ski bumming in New Zealand. For a while he made a name for himself in international free skiing competitions eventually leading to winning Germany's world cup title in mogul skiing in 1992.

Now that he has a family with two kids, he likes to stay closer to home, skiing down ice faces in the Alps that most climbers find challenging to climb up! Descents such as Eiger West Face, Matterhorn East Face or Lenzspitz Northeast Face (in 3.5 minutes!) are among the many on his resume. He often models for photo shoots and receives sponsorship from several equipment manufacturers - North Face being one of them.

Luckily Flory can also find his way UP mountains and rock and ice climbs too! As a mountain guide, he is internationally certified (UIAGM/IFMGA) by the Technical University of Munich and his excellent English comes in handy working with Jorg on our programs in Europe.

Andy Lippitsch

Andy Lippitsch

Originally from the Montafon region of Western Austria, Andreas ("Andy") is a full blood mountain guide and ski instructor, who has been certified on the UIAGM / IFMGA level for over a decade. Inspite of his relatively young age, he soon qualified for the instructor team of the Austrian Ski Instructor Certification program and for many years he managed the ski school in his home town of Gargellen.

Andy has done a lot of travelling during his mountain guiding career, including a season of heli-ski guiding in the Russian Kaukasus and the Bugaboos for Canadian Mountain Holidays.

Andy is very popular with our guests for his good energy and sociable and warm-hearted nature. Based in Fieberbrunn in Tirol, where he lives with his wife and daughter, he guides for us all over the Alps.

Sarah Hueniken

Sarah Hueniken

Sarah has been involved in outdoor education for just about all of her adult live. Originally from Ontario she graduated with a double bachelor degree in outdoor recreation, parks tourism and natural science from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. She also has a good decade of experience instructing and guiding for variuos agencies such a NOLS, Outward Bound and Yamnuska Inc, to name only the better known.

A resident of Canmore AB for 5 years, Sarah is currently one of the strongest and most active female climbers in the Canadian Rockies on ice, mixed and rock. Aside from participating in climbing competitions regularly, she recently set a personal milestone by managing her first climb rated 5.13. Sarah has travelled the world extensively to satisfy her climbing habit with destinations including Mexico, South America and recently Tibet, where she did a first ascent of a technical route on a 6000 m peak.

Sarah holds certificaction as an ACMG Rock and Assistant Alpine Guide and is pursuing her full mountain guide certification - that is whenever she is not hanging out at the rock gym or in one of Canmore's many coffee shops.

Larry Dolecki

Larry Dolecki

A master of all mountaineering disciplines, Larry enjoys everything from sport climbs at sunny beaches to expeditions in the remote ranges of Western Canada and Asia. Born and raised in Calgary, he still calls the Canadian Rockies home. His house in Canmore, however, doesn't get to see much of him: Guiding in Europe in summer, helicopter-ski guiding in BC for Selkirk Tangiers in winter or difficult multi-day peak ascents in Canada and the US - Mt. Robson, Mt. Logan and Denali to name a few.

Larry holds UIAGM / IFMGA certification from the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) and has more than 10 years of experience as a full time mountain guide. His academic background is in economics but the callings of the mountains were stronger than those of the capital markets!