Guides

Klemen Mali

Klemen was born in Slovenia in a small town called Kamnik. Growing up in the Alps, he started skiing and hiking as soon as he could walk. Klemen started climbing in 1989 when he joined the Kamnik Alpine Club. During the winter seasons he excelled at alpine back country skiing, achieving many first ski ascents in the Slovenian Alps. Klemen has extensive climbing experience around the world: Alaska - Kichatna Spires Denali Range, Canada, South America's Andes, and the Karakoram - Pakistan Himalaya. Shifting his focus to teaching alpine safety, he became a certified IFMGA Mountain Guide, who regularly teaches mountaineering and Crevasse rescue courses. He has lead successful climbing and skiing trips in the Alps, BC's Coast Mountains and Patagonia. His hobbies included developing new climbing areas around the world, traveling with his family, and photography. He speaks English, Spanish and Slovenian.

Herbert Stadler

Herbert has been involved with winter tourism for 17 years. During this time he became a certified ski and snowboard instructor and guide. He is also an instructor at the Association for Professional Ski and Snowboard instructors in Salzburg, Austria. For five years Herbert worked as a ski and snowboard instructor and guide in the USA. During some of the winter seasons he also worked in the areas of freeriding and park skiing constructing parks and organising events.
He loves nature and his favourite activities are freeriding, fly-fishing and motorcycling.

Josef Jennewein

A certified ski instructor and ski guide since 1996. For many years he was a back country tour guide in the Arlberg region of Austria. From 1991 to 1994 he worked in the outdoor industry in British Columbia, Canada and Alaska. During the summer Josef works in Austria, constructing avalanche barriers and on hill safety structures. Josefhas been with KHS since 2004.
His hobbies are mountain biking, climbing, kayaking and motorcycles.

Pete Wright

Pete was born in Whitehorse Yukon and raised in the Atlin area and surrounding mountains. His father ran a outfitting business in Atlin, guiding for 50 years. Pete was adopted by the Etzenlee clan as a small child where he grew up in an all aboriginal family. In 1998 he began heli skiing with CMH (Cariboo Mountain Helicopter) in the Cariboo mountains working in the Cariboo Lodge in Valemount BC. Pete is a CSIA Ski Instructor and Canadian Wilderness First Aid certified advanced level. Pete is a certified Level One Canadian Ski Guide (CSGA) with Canada Avalanche Association training, CAA and CSGA advanced crevasse rescue training.
Over the years he has done many expeditions in the Atlin mountains, crossing the Juneau ice cap to the pacific from Atlin, leading Ski Mountaineering Expeditions on the St. Elias range and Mount Logan among others in the Yukon mountains. During the summer months Pete owns and operates a gold mine in the Cariboo Goldfields near Barkerville BC.
His hobbies are mountaineering and ice climbing (Africa, Himalayas, Canada and Europe) Rock climbing (USA, Canada, Mexico and Thailand). Pete says he would love to show off his home town Atlin and mountains to our heli ski guests, and drop in on his  family in Atlin.

Marc Boulerice

Marc has been a Level 4 ski instructor and a level 3 snowboard instructor since 2000. He is a certified heliski guide and speaks fluent French and English. Mark is a biologist and works in the summer as a Landscaping Manager. He lives in Whitehorse/Yukon and has been with KHS since 2004. 
His hobbies are all kinds of outdoor activities, mountain biking and fishing.

 

Christoph Dietzfelbinger

Christoph is a UIAGM/ IFMGA mountain guide, trained in the Alps and worked there for eight years before immigrating to Canada. He has guided Denali and Mount Logan several times. In 2001, he built the Burnie Glacier Chalet in the Howson Range near Smithers. Christoph works as a guide in ski touring and heli-skiing, and is a trained avalanche consultant. He also guides summer mountaineering. He is a Qualified Avalanche Planner and instructor in the Canadian Mountain and Ski Guide program at Thompson Rivers University. Most of all, he loves being in the mountains and sharing them with his guests. Christoph lives with his family in the country near Smithers, British Columbia.

Michael Cater

He has been a UIAGM certified mountain guide and a certified ski instructor and ski guide since 1997. Michael had been working in the Freeride industry in Obertauern and Chamonix for over a decade when he changed careers and became the Atomic product manager for bindings. The time had come for the trained bank clerk to listen to the call of the mountains once again and he started guiding with KHS in 2005. 
His hobbies include biking, trekking and mountaineering..