Matt Spenceley

Matt has now spent over 23 seasons climbing and skiing in the mountain ranges of Greenland in both the warm and cold seasons.  During this period, he has spent much time living in the tiny, mostly Inuit community on the East Coast.  If you're interested in new routes on remote peaks, Matt's intimate knowledge  of Greenland is indispensible.  Having kayaked at international level and competed in the Ice Climbing World championships, as well as repeating and establishing some of the harder modern-style mixed routes in the World, Matt's focus is firmly on adventure at the moment - a perfect trip means an exciting objective in a wild and beautiful place with a good group of people.  Greenland is very much his adopted home, full of brilliant new expedition ideas.  Utilising his experience of ice travel, he has also recently begun guiding to the North Pole.

Sponsors: 

Lorenz Frutiger, IVBV Mountain Guide, Grindelwald, Switzerland

Ronny Finsaas, Finse, Norway

The legendary Ronny Finsaas (the kiting god) is an expert in kite polar travel. When not involved in an expedition, or cooking at the Finse 1222 hotel, he can usualy be found outside teaching ski-sailing or doing ski-sail expeditions around Finse. Being a member of the local rescue team, he also has wide experience of glacier rescue.

Ronny has been pushing the limits of what you can do with a ski sail. He has travelled at 50mph pulling a sledge, sailing in the dark a distance of 30 miles, within 2 hrs, using headlamp and GPS. He holds an incredible record: In January 2008 he travelled a distance of 502.73km in 24 hours!

Einar Isfeld Steinarsson, Reykjavik, Iceland

Born and raised in Iceland. He has been guiding all aspects of mountaineering since age 20.  Einar got his initial training from the Icelandic Air to ground rescue team, where he was part of a small team specializing in high angle and para-rescue and later an instructor for the team.

After his first Greenland trip to Thule while teaching winter survival he was, for a lack of a better word - Hooked. "Exploring the places my childhood heros described with such detail and care was a wild experience, I knew I would be returning often".  He has a burning desire to enjoy and share nature and landscapes and is on an seemingly endless search for the next adventure.

These days he keeps himself busy with exploring Greenland with Pirhuk guests,  guiding in Iceland,  Argentina and in the North Cascades of the U.S where he and his wife reside just south of the Canadian border during the winters while he works towards his International guide certifications.

"What drives me is knowing my companions are experiencing something amazing, be it a ,sitting there just soaking it in  moment, or a big smile on top of a climb or peak - these are unforgettable experiences and the reason I guide."

Martin Burgener, IVBV Mountain Guide, Grindelwald, Switzerland

Niklas Norman, Norway

Kite-skiing-expeditions is Niklas' main expertise.  He was employed in the company after setting a new standard for kite-skiing expeditions with his "windpower- expedition 2005".

The new standard included a new way of using different equipment resulting in more than twice the daily distance of any other expedition on snow at that time, and a single day world record of 442,7 km.  This new standard was based on about 10 years of development, testing and training in Finse in Norway with Ronny Finsås, who by the way, broke the single day record in 2008 in Antarctica. (Nikas is planning to take that record back..).  When not exploring, Niklas is studying Fluid Mechanics and eating pizzas in Oslo.

Dagmar Ineichen - Logistics Manager

Dagmar brings a long background of skiing & mountaineering together with many years handling a busy office to our team.  As well as keeping an overview of some pretty complex flight plans, she also often looks after communications with our expedition teams.  When not solving the intricacies of travel up in the far-north and talking over crackly Iridium telephone lines, she and Pastor, her black labrador, form a highly trained search & rescue team back in Switzerland.

Georg Utuaq, Kulusuk, Greenland

 The main man in Kulusuk.....