Grigory Mintsev
ACMG Ski Guide
Grigory is originally from Kamchatka peninsula and has devoted his time to exploring the mountains of the region from childhood. He’s been guiding in Kamchatka since 1999 and has run guiding programmes in winter and summer as well as organised avalanche courses.
Long time ago he has spent several years in Siberia, and fell in love in this wild and beautiful country. Since 2011 he is in Siberia every winter season, skiing powder and sharing the beauty of this place with our guests.
He is one of few Russians who participated in the Canadian Mountain & Ski Guide Program, and he is the first and only Ski Guide in Russia to be certified through the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG Ski Guide).
His travel and guiding experience includes many great destinations, such as Kamchatka, Siberia, Caucasus, Japan, South America, Canada, India and Antarctica to name a few. Even though he is based in the Chamonix valley in France, Grigory spends several months each year in Siberia and Kamchatka ski touring and heliskiing what he believes to be on of the best mountains in the world.
Association of Canadian Mountain Guides member. Canadian Avalanche Association professional member. Technical director of Russian Avalanche Centre.
Languages: English, Russian, French.
Chuck Olbery
NZMGA Ski Guide
Originally from Australia, Chuck got his guiding certification in New Zealand. He worked for seven seasons heliski guiding in New Zealand and four seasons in Canada. Now his home base is Furano in Central Hokkaido where he spent already fourteen years. His guiding experience also includes USA, Norway, Russia and Greenland.
Association of New Zealand Mountain Guides member. Canadian Avalanche Association professional member.
Languages: English, Japanese.
Fedor Farberov
RMGA Mountain Guide
A brilliant member of our Guide team; our teacher and mentor. One of the most experienced and highly educated Russian guides, Fedor is certainly the best specialist for the Kamchatka region.
In early 1980-th Fedor pioneered extreme skiing and ski-alpinism in Kamchatka. In 30 years of active ski-mountaineering he has made many dozens multiday and multi-weeks ski-mountaineering trips and traverses into remote mountain ranges in Kamchatka as well as more than a hundred first ski descents from most difficult mountains in Kamchatka including its highest volcanoes Kluchevskaya sopka 4850m and Kamen 4575m. Many of Fedor’s ski-mountaineering trips where done solo including numerous big ski traverses. Several of his solo unsupported ski traverses were up to 35-days long. Fedor and his friend Vladimir Lopatnikov were the first Russians to ski Orient Express couloir on Denali (McKinley) in 1994.
Fedor was the first Russian guide who went through the program Adventure Guide Diploma in Thompson River University, Canada in 2001-2002. During this study Fedor successfully attended many guides training courses in mountaineering, rock climbing, ski-touring, avalanche safety and rescue.
Since establishing of the Russian Mountain Guides Association in 2010 and until 2018 Fedor was serving as Technical Director of the RMGA as well as Training Programs Coordinator & instructor at the Russian Mountain Guides School. Now Fedor working in Kamchatka Search and Rescue Team as lead rescue instructor. He is retired from active guiding but do lot of consulting and help to our guide’s team.
Russian Mountain Guide Association member.
Languages: English, Russian.
Denis Savelyev
IFMGA Mountain guide
He was born almost in the flat area, Moscow city, where there are not mountains at all. But his passion for climbing and skiing has been ascended from his parents and led him to one of the most experienced and strong alpinists in Russia. One day he got a decision to not only play in mountains but also work, and after long study process became one of the first internationally certified guides in Russia.
His guiding experience started in 2008 and includes many ascents all over the world, including South America, Africa, Himalaya, Caucasus, Alps and many other mountain regions. Now days Denis is guiding mountaineering routes in the Alps and Caucasus, as well as skitouring and ski-mountaineering programs in Kamchatka and Siberia.
Languages: English, Russian.
Peter Schön
ACMG Ski Guide
Originally from Germany, Peter been living and skiing in many places in the world. Austria, Canada, Japan, Armenia to name a few. Currently, he divide his home between mountains of Norway and Georgia. He has been a professional/sponsored ski-alpinist, with several first ski descents on 5000-6000m summits in the Caucasus, Andes, Tien Shan and Pamirs. In parallel he was doing study in Earth Sciences and in snow/avalanches sciences (PhD student).
Been working for many years as avalanche technician (avalanche safety consulting and forecasting), avalanche courses instructor and ski guide in Norway and Georgia.
To say that we are happy to see Peter in our team is to say nothing. He adds amazing amount of experience and knowledge, as well as a good ski style and passion to powder skiing.
Association of Canadian Mountain Guides member. Canadian Avalanche Association professional member.
Languages: German, English, Norwegian, Russian.
Dmitry Fedorchenko
RMGA Apprentice Ski Guide
Dmitry was born in a small Siberian village and having grown up there, the local woods and mountains are literally his playground. He started cross-country skiing at the age of 3, then soon progressed to both snowboarding and Alpine skiing. He continued this until he started studying Economy in Saint-Petersburg which forced him to stop the mountain sports. Before long he finally learnt that an office job is not for him. We found Dmitry several years ago in British Columbia, studying the Adventure Guide Diploma in Thompson River University – alongside shredding Canadian powder. Throughout these studies he has spent some time as an apprentice guide in Snowy Mountain skitour lodge (Cariboo Mountains, BC). Dmitry’s mountaineering experience includes many mountains in Siberia, and also Belukha Mountain, the highest peak of the Altai Mountains.
Dmitry guiding in Siberia, the Caucasus and in Kamchatka. He is also an Operations Manager at Luzhba skitouring lodge, Western Siberia
Russian Mountain Guide Association member.
Languages: English, Russian.
Anna Khankevich
RMGA Ski Guide, Apprentice Alpine Guide.
Before starting her guiding carrier, Anna was professional ski athlethe. She took part in Russian and International freeride competitions and won some of them. During the competitions and during personal trips she has been skiing in many destinations, such a Kamchatka, Siberia, Caucasus, Japan, Tien Shan, South America, Canada to name a few. First time she visited Siberia more than 10 years ago, and fell in love to this place and each year starts her skiing season there.
Anna was the very first female guide in Russian Mountain Guide stream to get the Ski Guide certification, and still she is the only one certified female Ski Guide in Russia. Now days Anna based in Krasnaya Polyana (Sochi), where she take a role of Lead Guide for local guiding company, and still travelling a lot in search of ideal slopes.
She is also on a way to become a mountain guide, Anna’s mountaineering experience includes some serious mountains, such as Peak Lenina, Denali, Marble wall (Central Tien Shan).
Russian Mountain Guide Association member.
Languages: Russian , English, French.
Sergey Fursov
RMGA Mountain guide
Sergey was the very first guide in Russian Mountain Guide Stream to get the Mountain Guide certification. And this could happen only because he is a very talented and strong skier and mountaineer, with extensive experience of skiing and guiding in many mountain places of Russia and all over the world.
His home mountains are Caucasus, where he is guiding all year around and also do avalanche forecasting work for “Rosa Khutor” ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana (Sochi). Besides guiding, he is in charge for Russian mountain guide school management as the Technical Director of Russian Mountain Guide Association.
Russian Mountain Guide Association member.
Languages: English, Russian
Ekaterina Korovina
RMGA Apprentice Mountain Guide
Ekaterina (Katia) started skitouring in 1995 in Khibiny mountains. Since 1998 she has been climbing high mountains and later got training as mountain rescuer. At the same time she has been more and more skiing off-piste. Freeriding became her hobby, her passion and finally her job. She also took part in Russian and European freeriding competitions.
Out of guiding, for 10 years Katia has been working for ski resorts planning and ski slopes designing including engineering avalanche protection.
Katia’s climbing and skiing experience includes many destinations such as Crimea, the Caucasus, Khibiny mountains, the Urals, Altay, Siberia, the Alps, Pamir, Tian-Shan, Terskey Alatoo, Indian Himalaya, mountains of Norway, Sweden and Turkey.
She’s working as a mountain guide for climbing, skitouring and freeriding all year round mostly in the Caucasus (Elbrus, Kazbek), Siberia and Central Asia (Lenin Peak).
Russian Mountain Guide Association member.
Languages: Russian , English, French, German.