Our Guides

Gulmarg Heliski guides are highly experienced heliski guides and mountain guides with many years experience working together in the mountains of New Zealand, Greenland, Alaska, Japan, Canada, and on climbing expeditions in the Himalaya. All our guides have Avi-2 snow safety and pre-hospital accident medical training. We are very pleased to have this excellent team of guides, who already work together as a team in New Zealand, and who operate with the same Squirrel B3 helicopter that we will be using at Gulmarg.

Tim O’Leary – Operations Manager, Gulmarg Heliski
Tim O’Leary is a New Zealand Mountain Guides Association fully certified ski guide with 15 years guiding and mountaineering experience. Tim has visited Gulmarg in the winter 2008 and 2009 for heliski orientation and planning, ready for our opening season in 2010. During the New Zealand winter Tim is Operations Manager at www.alpineheliski.co.nz based in the Southern Alps at Queenstown, NZ.

Mark “Woody” Woodward – Lead guide, Gulmarg Heliski
Mark Woodward is a New Zealand Mountain Guides Association fully certified ski guide. “Woody” has 23 years heliski guiding experience in New Zealand and 14 years of international guiding and mountaineering experience, including successfully reaching the summit of Mount Everest six times. “Woody” is a Lead guide at Alpine Heliski, Queenstown, NZ.

Peter Rasmussen – Lead guide, Gulmarg Heliski
Peter Rasmussen is a highly experienced ski guide with 13 years heliski guiding experience in New Zealand, with further experience in Alaska and Canada. Peter is a Lead guide at Alpine Heliski, Queenstown, NZ.

Mick Holzman – Lead guide, Gulmarg Heliski
Mick is a highly experienced ski guide with 16 years heliski guiding experience in New Zealand. Mick is a Lead guide at Alpine Heliski, Queenstown, NZ and visited Gulmarg with Tim in 2009.

You can read more about our safety procedures in our safety information section.