Doug Scott CBE

      Doug Scott has made 45 expeditions to the high mountains of Asia. He has reached the summit of 40 peaks, of which half were first ascents and all were climbed by new routes or first the first time in Alpine style. In 1975, with Chris Bonington's Expedition, Doug and the late Dougal Haston were the first Britons to climb Everest, via the South West Face. He has climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents--the "seven summits." His climbing resume is a long list of bold and difficult first ascents and audiences around the world have been enthralled to learn about his numerous and spectacular expeditions.

      He is a past president of the Alpine Club; he was made a CBE (Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1994 and received the Royal Geographic Society Patron's Gold Medal.

Joe Terravecchia

      Joe is a 46 year-old building and restoration contractor living in southern Maine with his wife Karin and their children, Aidan age 6 and Emma age 4. Some of his most memorable climbs include Freestone, cruising Astroman and the 2nd one-day linkup of El Capitan's Nose and Half Dome's Regular N.W. face with Peter Coward (first done by Croft and Bachar). He climbed his first 5.13 in 1987 and recently redpointed Rumney's Predator on his 3rd try.

      Joe has soloed the North Face of the Grand Teton in 4hrs when the top 1200' was covered in verglas, climbed 200 new pitches of rock and ice up to WI6, M8 and 5.12c in the fiords and on the sea cliffs of Newfoundland. He has taken 7 trips to Alaska, reaching the summit on each of the following: Foraker's Southeast Ridge in 1983, Denali's East Buttress in '86, the Moonflower Buttress on Mt. Hunter in '97 with Carl Tobin and a new route on Foraker's South Face in '99 with Steve Larson for which he received the Mugs Stump Award.
 

Kevin Mahoney

      Kevin has been climbing since 1990 and guiding professionally since 1994. He started to climb in NH, which shaped his interests in traditional rock and ice climbing. Over the years these interests have formed a passion for alpine climbing in the mountains of India, Patagonia, France, Canada and Alaska. This alpine apprenticeship has seen many failures and some successes; all of these have taught him the lessons that keep him coming back to the mountains. The second ascent of the Czech Direct (Slovak Route) in 2000 was a great jumping off point as it taught the most important lesson: commitment trumps all. Climbing adventures in Alaska, Canada, Patagonia and India fill Kevin's resume.

Jesse Williams

      Jesse first started climbing in the Adirondacks as a college student in 1990, and has been guiding rock, ice and skiing in the region for over a decade. He is the director of Clousplitter Mountain Guides and is an ambassador athlete for Cloudveil mountain apparel. An AMGA certified rock instructor, he has also guided numerous alpine and expedition climbs in the Cascade & Alaska Ranges, most recently enjoying great success on alpine rock in Alaska's Little Switzerland.
 

Jeremy Haas

      Energetic is an understatement. Local alpinist and guide Jeremy Haas has spent two decades exploring the northeastern mountains from West Virginia to Gaspe, punctuated by trips to the Cascade and Selkirk Mountains and overseas to the Mont Blanc massif. After a sojourn of several years climbing and ski mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains, he returned to New York and sought out the alpine potential of the East. Jeremy's home is the Adirondack Mountains, with their unique blend of roadside climbing and technical mountaineering in an expansive backcountry. He is the coauthor of the new rock climbing guidebook for the Adirondack Park, through which he has discovered a wealth and variety of climbs (and climbers).

      During the day Jeremy teaches high school science, which has shown him the importance of personalized instruction. Jeremy finds guided trips to be a great method of learning because the participant gets immediate feedback under the watchful eye of an experienced guide. Enthusiastic but patient, he has been with Adirondack Rock and River Guide Service since 2002.

Don Mellor

      Don is considered the "Dean of Adirondack Climbing" by many. He authored "Climbing in the Adirondacks" and is currently a licensed guide with Rock & River and is the assistant headmaster at Northwood School where he heads up their outdoor climbing program. Don has 20 years of climbing experience in the Adirondacks, is on the volunteer high-angle rescue squad and has over 100 first ascents. He resides in Lake Placid with is wife Janet and daughter Elise.

Matt Horner

      Matt lives in the Adirondacks where he spends most of his time free climbing year round. His outdoor lifestyle has enabled him to be a successful guide with Adirondack Rock & River Guide Service. Teaching and guiding come naturally and his infectious enthusiasm for climbing rubs off on everyone he spends time with. Matt is always seeking out new areas to explore and has established many challenging first ascents in the area. His passion for ice climbing has led him to pursue adventures in the United States and abroad including the Canadian Rockies, Peruvian Andes and Mongolia's Altai Mountains. Matt has embraced the freedom of climbing leashless to enhance the sublime experience of asceding frozen waterfalls.
 

Emilie Drinkwater

      Despite being cold for ten months of the year, Emilie loves the Adirondacks for their abundant ski and climbing terrain (though the Canadian Rockies are a close second). She has been guiding rock, ice, and skiing for seven years and will continue doing so until something better comes along (unlikely). Her more recent adventures have included Canada’s Chic-Choc Mountains, Maine’s Mt. Katahdin, and Little Switzerland, Alaska.

Carl Heilman

      Carl has been involved in the sport of snowshoeing ever since making his first pair of snowshoes in the early 1970's. He has written numerous articles and has been a consultant on the sport of snowshoeing. He's been leading beginner's and advanced snowshoeing workshops for the Adirondack Mt. Club and Appalachian Mt. Club since the mid 1980's and has also done programs and workshops for many organizations and schools throughout the United States. Carl still hand crafts a limited number of snowshoes each year. His snow-shoes have been used all over the world, and some of his ideas for snowshoe design have been incorporated into commercial styles. While he enjoys passing along his expertise on snowshoeing and winter travel, he enjoys most seeing folks turn-on to the sport after using snowshoes for the first time!

Chuck Boyd

      Chuck is a professional alpinist and ski patroller who owns and operates Vertical Realms, a climbing school and guide service based in Suffield, CT. He has climbed and skied extensively throughout the world, and he has made first ascents of mountains in Pakistan's Karakoram and Peru's Cordillera Blanca. In May, 2004 he reached the summit of Mount Everest. On ice, snow or rock, Chuck's goal is to teach people to safely experience the mountain world. Chuck is a nationally registered avalanche instructor and a member of the National Ski Patrol. He became an avalanche instructor in 1996 after two close avalanche encounters in the Alps. A graduate of the National Avalanche School, Chuck mentored under Roger Damon and regularly attends the ISSW, an international conference on snow science. Chuck now organizes most of the Level I and Level II Avalanche courses for the Eastern Division of the National Ski Patrol, and, in 2006, he was awarded his region's Instructor of the Year award. He is currently working with Whiteface Mountain, NY, helping to develop an avalanche control program to open the slides at Whiteface to the avalanche-educated public.

Ian Boyer

      Ian has been climbing since 1993 and guiding since 1998. His career has taken him around the world including more than ten expeditions to Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, two major trips to Asia, and extensive climbing throughout the lower 48. Ian prides himself on pursuing all venues of climbing but his true loves are rock and mixed climbing. His mixed roots began here in the Adirondacks and have culminated in ascents such as the first ascent of Higher Education M9+ and the first redpoint placing all gear on the Fecalator M10. Ian gains much of his energy and drive seeing others push their limits no matter what the grade. He loves to inspire, teach and be a part of his students' process of breaking barriers and achieving goals. Ian lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Christina.
 

James Pitarresi, Ph.D.

      James (the "Ice Doctor") first started climbing in Western New York and Southern Ontario in the 1970s (and he still wears his vintage Joe Brown helmet). After taking time off to complete graduate school, start a family and a career, he returned to ice climbing in the early 1990s. Since that time, he has spent his winters climbing ice throughout the Northeast. It was a conversation with Jeff Lowe who first gave him the idea that teaching ice climbing would be a great way to give back to the sport. Accepting that sage advice, James has been active in combining his passion for ice climbing with his enthusiasm to share his knowledge with others so that they can learn to move confidently and safely on vertical ice. Over the past decade, James has taught ice climbing to individuals and groups and he has been involved with the Mountainfest for many years. James is a licensed guide and when not climbing, he is a professor and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Binghamton University (SUNY).