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Specializing in guided mountain adventures...

Smart Mountain Guides is a small guide service owned and operated by Miles and Liz Smart, we also contract with local IFMGA/UIAGM mountain guides in Europe.

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Miles Smart

UIAGM Mountain Guide

Miles Smart is an IFMGA/UIAGM mountain guide.  He is the 2004 recipient of the AMGA Guide of the Year award.  Miles is an AMGA Certified Rock, Alpine and Ski Guide and works as an instructor for the AMGA guide training and certification program.  Over the past ten years Miles has guided full time around the globe working equally with climbing, mountaineering and skiing.  Miles has brought many clients from beginner to expert and has guided objectives such as a 12 hour climb of the Cathedral Traverse and a ski descent of the Grand Teton in Wyoming.  Miles returns to Alaska every spring to heli ski guide the steeps of Alaska.  Outside of Miles' professional guiding career his accomplishments include numerous speed climbing ascents and ski mountaineering descents.  His climbing exploits include climbing on the Trango Towers in Pakistan, winter ascents in Chamonix and speed records on El Capitan and Half Dome.  One such speed record, the North America Wall on El Capitan, took just over 9 and 1/2 hours.  He has climbed El Capitan in Yosemite 22 times via 16 different routes.  He established one of the most difficult routes on El Capitan, Disorderly Conduct. His skiing exploits include lines such as the Gervasutti Couloir and the North Face of the Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix, and 2 different lines on the Grand Teton in Wyoming.

Liz Smart

Liz Oakes Smart

UIAGM Mountain Guide

Liz Oakes Smart is a mountain guide, ski mountaineer and climber.  She grew up in Aspen, Colorado and has since traveled the world for climbing and skiing spending time in places such as the European Alps, the Tetons, the Himalaya and Alaska. She has made many ski mountaineering descents including the west face of the Eiger in Switzerland; the Glacier Rond and the Couloir du Cosmiques in Chamonix; the Pan de Rideau and the Polichinele in La Grave, France; the Fuhrer Finger on Mt. Rainier; and various descents in Alaska's Chugach range.  Liz has also skied from 7,200 meters on Shishapangma in Tibet.  She has been featured in various Skiing Magazine articles.  Along with her skiing accomplishments, Liz has done long free climbs in Yosemite and Squamish, British Columbia and has completed a one-day ascent of the Cathedral Traverse in the Tetons. She has also taken expeditions to the Himalaya including an ascent of Ama Dablam in Nepal and an attempt of Jupono in Sikkim, India.  Liz recently finished the AMGA guide training program, and is now a UIAGM/IFMGA qualified guide and can guide all over the world.

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