Guides

Tomas was born in Patagonia, Argentina and at an early age as became a climber in the Nahuel Huapi National Park. He has completed a large number of rock and ice climbing routes, backcountry skiing descents and climbs all around the world such as Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse (8.516 mts.), the 4th highest peak in the world, without using supplemental oxygen (May, 2012). He is a certified Mountain Guide from the EPGAMT and a member of the Argentinean Mountain Guides Associations (AAGM) and has extensive experience leading expeditions on Mt. Aconcagua, which he has repeatedly ascended, as well as on other peaks in the Central Andes, Patagonia, Pakistan, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Antarctica including 14 expeditions to Vinson and in the Himalayas in Nepal. During the winter season, he guides backcountry skiing, mostly on the volcanoes in Patagonia. He feels very privileged to work as a mountain guide and to be able to share experiences with people that have the same passion. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fred began guiding on Mt. Rainier in 1993 and has been pursuing a life in the wild places of the world ever since. He has climbed and guided in the Alaska, the Himalayas, Antarctica, South and North America and Europe. During this time he has also held positions as an Incident Commander and Aviation Manager for the Bureau of Land Management’s Wildland Fire program as well as the role of a lead guide at a premier helicopter skiing operation based in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains.

Along with his guide work Fred is currently working with an Antarctic based logistics company as an aviation coordinator and safety adviser helping to train their staff in risk assessment and emergency response.

Mike Hamill is the owner and founder of Climbing the Seven Summits and is one of the world’s premier high-altitude guides and expedition leaders. Mike has led more climbers to the summits of 8000m peaks including Everest than any other guide- 200+ summits on 31 X 8000m expeditions with an unparalleled success rate.

Mike began his climbing career on the steep rock and ice of New England and New York state. He hails from Hanover, New Hampshire but currently splits time between Seattle and Sydney, Australia.

Mike has been guiding for two decades and is a veteran of well over 120 major high altitude expeditions including 13 to Mt Everest, 11 to Cho Oyu, Manaslu, Shishapangma, the South Pole, Vinson, Denali, Putha Huinchuli, and Ama Dablam, 50 ascents of Mt. Rainier to name just a few. He has summited Mt Everest 6 times, lapped the famed Seven Summits 6 times, and climbed 2 X 8000m peaks (Shishapangma & Cho Oyu) in 8 days, one of only a few people in history to do so.

In 2012, Mike released “Climbing the Seven Summits,” the definitive guide book to the Seven Summits, with The Mountaineers Books. Mike was on Discovery Channel’s “Everest Beyond the Limits” in 2009 and has written for such publications as The Wallstreet Journal and Rock and Ice magazine.