They left around 2 a.m. for what became a harrowing desert trek, guided only by the flickering flame atop a gas well in the distance and a compass application on Mr. Floria's iPhone.
One popular three-mile trek guides skiers to the resort's Slayton Pasture Cabin, where adventurers warm up with hot cocoa and a bowl of soup by the fire before heading back out.
Eric Silverberg's Project (Star-Trek guide).
The narrator, a young widow, slips into a relationship with an enigmatic trekking guide.
Michael Cullen, editor of i-escape.com and freelance trekking guide It was later to become one of my stomping grounds as a trekking guide, but I first climbed this awesome mountain, whose pyramidal 2,400m peak dominates the Mani coastline, in 1990.
Marcello Cominetti, a certified mountain and trekking guide with Guide Alpine Star Mountain (39-019-681-6206; www.guidestarmofnthen.com), is one ofewhe few guides familiar with the region who speaks English.
You certainly get a picture of Mount Athos's setting, history and significance, plus a very detailed Trekking Guide to the mountainous peninsula for those considering a trip.
If you're looking to beat the crowds, trekking guide Bonny Masson has this advice: "If you've got the time, do the original trek the British expedition took in 1953".
"There has been no war and no violence in the Wakhan," said Malang Daria, a local trekking guide who was part of a 2009 French-Afghan expedition that climbed Noshaq, at 24,580 feet Afghanistan's highest peak.
In Nepal we were fortunate to have Dasharath Rai as our trekking guide - a lovely man with loads of experience who also runs an orphanage in Kathmandu (gracetrek.com.np).np
