Liz Oakes has been a mountain guide for five years. She climbs throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia and has done a one-day ascent of Cathedral Traverse in the Tetons as well as many climbs and treks in the Himalayas. Liz has completed long free climbs in Yosemite and Squamish, and has made steep ski descents in the French Alps, Alaska, and the USA, including a ski descent of Mt. Rainier via the Fuhrer Finger.

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Miles Smart is a lifetime skier and climber. He began skiing at age three and climbing at age nine in the Cascade Mountains outside of Seattle in Washington State, USA. He has skied throughout the USA and has skied in Canada, Alaska, Patagonia and the Alps.

Climbing has taken him to places such as Yosemite, the Alps, the Canadian Rockies, Patagonia, and the Trango Towers of Pakistan. While living in Yosemite for two years, he completed eighteen ascents of El Capitan and set speed records on a number of classic grade VI wall routes.

He loves skiing steep lines and good powder. In the summer, he guides climbing in Jackson, WY for Exum Mountain Guides. He is one of only a handful of guides in the USA to have gone through the entire UIAGM guide certification platform and is now a full UIAGM guide. He is a Marmot Design Team member and a Member of the W. L. Gore and Associates Mountaineering Council.

Miles splits his time between France, Wyoming, Colorado, and Alaska.

International Federation of Mountain Guide Associations Certified Mountain Guides