International Mountain Guides Partners George Dunn and Phil Ershler will be speaking at a couple different REI’s this week. The talks will be geared towards climbing Mt. Rainier…which as you might know George and Phil know a little bit about. George has more summits of Mt. Rainier than anybody in the world having reached the […]
What a beautiful day on the mountain! Our 6-day Winter Seminar wrapped up their trip with an excellent walk down to Paradise today. It was such a nice day that IMG Partner Eric Simonson and I set out early this morning to meet them on the Muir Snowfield. We bumped into them above Panarama Point, […]
Thursday, Feb. 19 Lead Guide Greg Vernovage radioed in this morning from Camp Muir. The Winter Seminar group has had some great weather above the clouds and it looks like that continues today… Greg and fellow guide Aaron Mainer didn’t feel comfortable crossing the Cowlitz Glacier this morning due to avalanche concerns so the team […]
Wednesday, Feb. 18 Everyone is back in Mendoza. Flights are being changed, the group is celebrating and even trying to squeeze in a wine tour before leaving. The two days following IMG’s summit day were bad. Looks like the mountain gods let us squeeze one in. The team did a great job of putting themselves […]
Tuesday, Feb. 17 IMG Senior Guide Craig John notched his 18th and 19th summits of Kilimanjaro over the last few weeks, with successful climbs to the Roof of Africa as the leader of our January and February teams. Our January group put 11 of 12 on Uhuru and the February group put 10 of 10 […]
February 4, 2009 Welcome to our new blog! As you may know International Mountain Guides directors Phil Ershler, George Dunn, Eric Simonson and Paul Baugher organize and lead climbing, trekking and mountaineering expeditions around the world, from the classic climbs of the Alps and Andes to the 8,000m peaks of the Himalayas. IMG continues to […]
