Our Mountain Guides
The mountain professionals at International Alpine Guides are dedicated to providing you a safe and memorable mountain experience. Owner/Director & IFMGA guide Dave Miller has a tight-knit team of mountain guides that are chosen based on their outgoing and friendly nature, their formal guide training, and their dedication to the profession of mountain guiding. We take pride in our group of “quiet crushers”, leaders in their fields with many of them doing amazing things in the mountains, yet down to earth men and women. No flashiness here! Just a team of approachable mountain professionals dedicated to our guests.
We have simply some of the highest standards in the guiding industry. All of our lead technical mountain guides have had outside guide training by the American Mountain Guides Association (or other IFMGA-standard associations). Some are internationally certified IFMGA/UIAGM mountain guides - the highest level of mountain guide certification in the world. All backpacking & hiking guides have naturalist training and training in Leave No Trace principles. All of our guides are trained in wilderness emergency medical protocols.
How to Choose a Mountain Guide
For any technical mountain guiding, we highly recommend you look for guides that are certified or have guide training by the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA). The AMGA is the standard in the United States for guide training and certification of mountain guides. It is not only the leading organization for training mountain guides in the United States, the AMGA is the only mountain guiding organization in the United States that is recognized by the International Federation of Mountain Guides (IFMGA).
Guides
Our guides our chosen not only for their expert technical expertise and top notch training, but also for their easy going and approachable personalities. No big egos here, no bragging about how we are all the best there ever was…just humble professionalism and a commitment to you, our valued guests
Dave Miller
Owner & Director
lead alpine, rock, ski & International guide
IFMGA/UIAGM International certified Guide
AMGA Certified Alpine, Rock & Ski Guide
AAI Avalanche instructor
Ian McEleney
Lead alpine & rock guide
AMGA certified alpine guide
AMGA certified single pitch instructor
David Court
Lead ski & alpine guide
shasta OPerations Coordinator
International Trekking Guide
AMGA ski mountaineering & Alpine skills training
AAI Avalanche instructor
Mike Smith
lead rock, Alpine, ski & backpacking guide
AMGA rock guide training
AMGA Ski guide training
AMGA alpine guide training
Sean Smith
lead rock & alpine guide Lead ski and ice guide
AMGA rock, alpine, ski and Ice trainng
LNT Master trainer
Calvary Gollwitzer
Lead Rock Guide AMGA ROck guide Training Alpine Guide
Marielle Schnack
Lead Backpacking guide
Geoff Lodge
lead alpine, rock & ski guide
IFMGA Internationally certified guide
AMGA certified rock, ski & alpine guide
Miles Britton
Lead ski, alpine and rock guide
AMGA rock, ski and alpine training
AAI Avalanche instructor
Demetri Zouboukos
LEAD SKI & ALPINE GUIDE
AAI Avalanche instructor
AMGA ALPINE & SKI GUIDES training
Nick Bakken-French
Lead Ski and alpine guide
AAI avalanche instructor
AMGA Alpine training
Lukas Wrede
Lead rock guide
Lead Alpine Guide
lead backpacking guide
Jason Boyer
lead Shasta guide Lead alpine, ski and rock guide AMGA Rock and Ski training
Paul Koubek
Lead alpine, rock, ski & International guide
IFMGA Internationally certified guide
AMGA certified rock, ski & alpine guide
AAI Avalanche instructor
Brian Biega
Lead rock and alpine guide
AMGA certified rock guide
AMGA alp[ine & ice guide training
AAI Avalanche instructor
Cage Vigil
Lead Rock guide Lead Alpine Guide aMGA Rock Guide Course
Nick Herzig
Shasta Alpine guide
AMGA alpine training
Katherine Pierce
Lead Backpacking guide
Daniel Ross
Lead rock and alpine guide lead ski guide amga ski, alpine and rock training
Management
Jessica Miller-DeMartin
Co-Director
International Trekking Guide
Wilderness medicine instructor
