Mark Klassen is a fully certified Mountain Guide and member of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG), the International Federation of Mountain Guiding Associations (IFMGA) and a Professional Member of the the Canadian Avalanche Association (CAA). Since 1996 he has served as a guide in the mountains of western Canada, the Yukon, New Zealand, Switzerland and Nepal. His ski guiding experience includes seven years heli-skiing in the Purcell, Selkirk and Coast ranges as well as many long ski traverses such as the Haute Route in the Alps, the Lillooet Traverse in BC’s Coast Range, the Bugaboos–Rogers Pass Traverse in the Columbia Mountains and the Great Divide Traverse in the Rockies. Mark lives in Banff, Alberta.