Rolfe Oostra (UIML), has been leading expeditions globally for more than 30 years. He has led expeditions to four of the 8,000m peaks: Manaslu (summit) in 2013; Mount Everest in 2007 (to North Col), 2015, 2016 (summit) and 2019; Lhotse (no summit) in 2016, and Cho Oyu in 2016 (where he achieved a back to back summit in 24 hours) and 2018.

He has led five unsupported expeditions to technically difficult 7,000m peaks and has guided more than seventy expeditions to 6,000m peaks (including Great Trango Tower, Ama Dablam and remote Andean summits). He has also completed the Bass version of the Seven Summits numerous times.

Apart from being in the mountains his passion for finding out what lies beyond the horizon has taken him on expeditions to the Amazon basin, the Congo and remote deserts, such as the Sahara. He lives with his wife, Marni in the French Pyrenees and together they head out the door whenever the sun shines (which fortunately in this spectacular mountain range is practically every day!)