Your Mountain Guide

Selkirk Mountain Experience is working together with a small and carefully selected team of professional guides. Each guide is an interesting, knowledgeable, adaptable and friendly individual. All have fulfilled the certification program as a professional guide. Further each guide has many years active experience in guiding in familiar and unfamiliar complicated alpine terrain. All guides have completed an intensive apprenticeship with Selkirk Mountain Experience to further enhance their skills in guiding techniques, hazard management, professional observation of snow and avalanche safety, poor weather guiding, mountain rescue, guest care and travel-strategy management. All of these skills are updated annually.

Ruedi Beglinger

Swiss-Canadian Mountain Guide
An International Certified Mountain Guide. Ruedi founded Selkirk Mountain Experience, West Canada in June of 1985. He is a professional member of the International Mountain Guide Association I.F.M.G.A.), Swiss Mountain Guide Association (S.B.V.), and the Canadian Mountain Guide Association (A.C.M.G.). Further he is a professional member of the Canadian Avalanche Association and is certified with CAA Operations Level 3. Ruedi has been actively training young Mountain Guides since 1986. From 1986 until 1991 he was an active instructor and examiner on the national Mountain Guide courses of the Canadian Mountain Guide Association. He has also for many years taught safety and performance courses in ski-guiding for several mechanized ski-companies of Western Canada.
Guiding Experience:
Guiding professionally in all areas of the Alps since 1975, with the Mont Blanc area and the Haute Route amongst his most favoured areas. Further Ruedi has guided guests in the Himalayas, Alaska (Wrangle - St.Elias Range), Canada (Canadian Rockies, Selkirk Mountains, Monashee Mountains, Coast Mountains) and all areas of the European Alps in the summer and on skis in the winter.
Resume of Ruedi Beglinger

Dan Madell

Canadian Guide
Dan has been guiding with Selkirk Mountain Experience since the winter of 2005. He is a certified ski-guide with the Canadian Mountain Guide Association A.C.M.G. Further Dan is a professional member of the Canadian Avalanche Association C.A.A.. Dan is a certified ski-racing coach.
Guiding Experience:
Dan has done ski-mountaineering all over the Canadian Rockies, the Purcell Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, Coast Mountains and also in the Wrangle - St.Elias Mountain Range. In addition to working for Selkirk Mountain Experience at Durrand Glacier, Dan has guided in the European West Alps, on Mt. Logan (Alaska/Yukon) and on Mt. Bona (Alaska). Dan has also worked as a snow-cat ski guide and helicopter ski guide in British Columbia. Dan is a passionate ski-mountaineer who will be found ski touring on his own or with friends when he is not guiding.

Ruedi Beglinger

Dan Madell