Seth is a full time professional mountain guide, owner of Northern Alpine Guides, and a persistent alpinist in his free time.  He grew up in the foothills of the rugged North Cascades in Washington State. Seth chose guiding as a career in 2001 at the age of 21 after completing many technical ascents in the North Cascades, Alaska Range, and British Columbia. He brings a solid background in all disciplines of climbing. A natural leader and teacher, he has lived a nomadic lifestyle taking him to some of the greatest alpine playgrounds of the world.

Seth has guided technical ascents throughout the Alps, Alaska Range, Waddington Range, Bugaboos, Canadian Rockies, Cascades, High Sierra, San Juan Mountains, Nepal Himalaya and Norway’s Fjell. While working as a guide he earned a bachelor degree in Natural Resource Management specializing in glacial monitoring from Western Washington University. Seth is an IFMGA, UIAGM, IVBV internationally licensed mountain guide holding certifications in Rock, Alpine, and Ski Mountaineering Guide through the American Mountain Guide Association (AMGA). In addition to his qualifications as a guide, he holds Avalanche certifications, a Wilderness First Responder medical certification, and is a Master Educator in Leave No Trace backcountry travel techniques. Seth can speak fluent Nepali and is learning Norwegian with his Norsk Family.

Dylan joins our team from Bellingham, Washington. Dylan guides in Washington, Alaska, Nevada, the Alps, Norway and in the South American Andes. Dylan holds an AIARE Level 3 Avalanche certification, and he is a fully certified UIAGM/IFMGA Guide. Originally from Colorado, Dylan grew up with an obsession for rock and alpine climbing and skiing. His love for the mountains led not only to exploring, but also a Masters Degree in geology. Between guiding adventures, Dylan finds time for his own personal climbing and skiing expeditions to places like India, Afghanistan, Patagonia (establishing several first ascents), and Alaska (completing several first ski traverses). Dylan lives in Chamonix and is also an avid photographer. You can occasionally spot his images in the outdoor media and in catalogs.

Mark grew up in Washington State and started climbing and skiing in the North Cascades in his early twenties. He is fully certified by IFMGA and divides his full-time-guiding extensive alpine, ice, rock and ski trips in the Washington, Alaska, Colorado and runs annual programs in Western Canada, Western Europe, and Norway. Additionally, Mark has led successful expeditions of the high altitude alpine climbing in great ranges of the Himalaya, the Andes, Patagonia, the Wrangle St. Elias, the Alaska Range, Eastern Tibetan Platue , and Antarctica. Mark’s personal interests are exploratory alpinism and ski mountaineering descents in remote areas. His academic background is in geology and he is a Level I&II AIARE avalanche instructor. Presently an ambassador athlete for Outdoor Research, Petzl, and Julbo and was nominated for the Piolet d’ Or in 2013 for his exploration of the Lacuna Glacier and ascent on the Mastodon Face of Mount Laurens of Denali National Park. Mark loves coffee, taco trucks, and harvesting seafood with his family.

Guiding since 1996 he has found himself helping people fulfill their dreams from Alaska to Patagonia, from the Himalaya to the Alps to Antarctica with many a stop in between he has been around the world block a few times. Tim is a fully licensed IFMGA/AMGA mountain guide and the 2006 recipient of the AMGA’s Outstanding Guide of the Year’ award. Tim is recognized throughout the guiding world for his expertise and passion for the peoples and experiences to be had in the mountains. Tim’s experience and expertise are brought to bear on our European Alps, Mont Blanc and Matterhorn expeditions. Tim speaks French,Spanish and English.

Chris is a licensed IFMGA/AMGA Mountain Guide and sponsored alpinist who splits his time between obsessions with climbing, skiing, and eating. His most recent fixations have been with climbing in the Himalaya and exploring Asia, which have led to the first ascents of hard new routes and a lasting love for Thai fried chicken. Chris grew up in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains before finding climbing in college, and has been hooked ever since. Chris has climbed, guided, and skied across the world from the Western US to Nepal, including Alaska, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, Nepal, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, and Canada. His climbing achievements include everything from the crags of Central Oregon to Yosemite big walls and virgin summits, and his guiding career has taken him from Ouray to Denali, and up and down Mt. Hood too many times to count. Chris is a recipient of the Mugs Stump Award and American Alpine Club Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award-funded expedition to attempt the six-thousand foot North Pillar of Nepal’s Teng Kangpoche (21,282′).

Erin Smart is a Seattle native who is now based in Chamonix, France.  She grew up skiing and climbing all over the Cascades of Washington State, and holds several first ski descents in her home mountain range. She has spent several winters ski mountaineering in La Grave and Chamonix, France.  Erin graduated magna cum laude from Western Washington University with a degree in Natural Resource Management.  She has been guiding since 2010, is an AMGA certified ski guide and assistant rock guide, and is pursing the full AMGA/IFMGA license. As well, she is a qualified AIARE avalanche course lead instructor. When not guiding, she writes for outdoor publications, rides her bicycle, attempts to surf, and works as an athlete for Mammut North America.

Caroline was born in the heart of the Swiss Alps to French-American parents who were total climbing/traveling/adventure junkies. They planted the seed. After competing in the ice climbing world cups while in law school and climbing big north faces in the Alps (Eiger, Matterhorn, Drus, etc.), she decided that becoming an IFMGA mountain guide would be a great way to give more meaning to her passion by sharing her love of the mountains with people and to feed her addiction of being in the mountains as much as possible. Caroline is also a professional alpinist and travels the world. Over the last couple of years, Norway has found a special place in her heart because of the unique ice climbing it offers and the magical feeling that comes from skiing from a summit to the ocean. Caroline lives in Chamonix, France and guides all fields of guiding as well as racing ski mountaineering competitions with clients. But working in Norway is by far and away her favorite place to work! On her time off, Caroline likes to spend time rediscovering the world through the eyes of her little girl Olivia.

Danny is an IFMGA licensed Mountain Guide and really excited to guide, climb, and ski in some of the most amazing places around the world. His home base is Chamonix, France where he guides alpine climbing and skiing. Dannys previous guiding work has been focused in Antarctica, Yosemite Valley, Bolivia’s Cordillera Real, the Alaska Range (Denali), and all over the continental US. He guided extensively over the Antarctic continent. That work took him to the South Pole, many locations within the Trans Antarctic Mountains, and the remote Marie Byrd Land; often for months at a time. Danny is always smiling, playing the guitar and telling jokes.

Iraitz Ezkergain grew up in San Sebastian, Basque Country (Spain). He is an aspirant UIAGM guide and a passionate climber and skier. He learned to climb in the Pyrennes mountain chain, where he works as guide when he is at home and Andorra, Baqueira, Formigal is his playgrounds. Since 2009 he has been a SKIBUM in La Grave, French alps, were he has opened some new ski lines. After 5 years of guiding in Norway, he knows the terrain Lofoten well, he has also been ski guiding in the Lyngen Alps, Senja and Tromso. In the summer time he works guiding alpine&rock climbing in Lofoten and the Stetind area. Iraitz has been on the summit of Norway’s beautiful national mountain Stetind more that 55 times!

Morgan has always been a focused skier and did his first ski season in the Alps at the age of 18. Chamonix, France is were he has spent the past 6 years going on adventures in the mountains and getting a lot of experience both climbing and skiing. He has also done his fair share of adventures in the northern parts of Scandinavia and in March 2015 he was the youngest Swede to ever get the IFMGA status.

Chamonix and Northern Norway is probably where he spends most of his time these days chasing couloirs, peaks, trails, cracks and boulders. Morgan is a very energetic, strong, and positive team player who also finds time to read and play chess.

Carl grew up in Sweden and started climbing in 2003. In the lack of big mountains and skiing he soon started traveling to more alpine areas like Canada and the Alps. He fell in love with the mountains and after years of traveling and adventures he became a fully certified UIAA rock climbing instructor in 2012 and moved up to Lofoten to work with his passion full time.