Tobias Luthe home     blog     publications     cv/resume     contact   Mountain- and wilderness guiding as well as teaching outdoor sports to me are fun ways of connecting people with nature, experiencing and feeling the interaction of us humans wih the natural environment - following the call of the wild. Guiding people in the wild and being a partner to experience a unique time safely is a challenging task. I enjoy both teaching skills of mountain- and outdoor sports and wilderness survival, as well as learning from the characters and social interaction myself. My guiding and training activities focus on skiing, mountaineering, climbing, wilderness survival and scientific expeditions, integrating awareness raising for the environment on the real subject. Apart from that I enjoy many other sports in nature, amongst my favourites are windsurfing, mountain biking and Telemark skiing. I have been guiding for more than ten years mountaineering and skiing trips in the Alps (such as Mont Blanc, Haute Route, Freeride camps in La Grave, Alagna and Chamonix), organizing and leading scientific expeditions to the Alpamayo in the Andes of Peru, to the Volcanoes of Chile, to Kamchatka in Siberia (Russia), to Iceland, Canada and Spitsbergen in the Arctic. I worked as a professional ski teacher, mountain guide and team trainer in California, Canada and Europe. I was a sponsored freeskier by the Swiss company Movement Skis for five years, and member of the German Demo Team Telemark for four years. A big part of guiding has been for the German Alpine Association, the University of Freiburg and for Telemarkzone, an international non-profit organisation in knowledge transfer, capacity building, product development and outreach in sustainable sport tourism development. See next seasons trips on >> www.telemarkzone.org. My certifications include: Guide for ski mountaineering of the German Alpine Association (DAV) Professional sports teacher Professional ski instructor Alpine, Telemark and Nordic (staatlich geprüfter Skilehrer DSLV, DSV Landesskil., Swiss Snow Pro, PSIA America). German hunting liscence. research & teaching eco-entrepreneurship & design outdoor guiding photography