Ian Nicholson AMGA
AMGA Ski Guide
City: Seattle
Province: WA
Bio: Ian has been guiding more than a decade and is an IFMGA/American Mountain Guide. Ian loves sharing his passion of the mountains and his positive enthusiasm and encouragement is known to help people to achieve goals and have more fun than they thought possible in the mountains. Ian has been climbing and back-country skiing for more than 15 years has ascended more than a half dozen new routes in his home range of the Cascades as well as opened new routes in farther off regions like the Alaska Range, Patagonia and the Waddington Range. Ian authored the local guide book; SuperTopo: Washington Pass Climbing, writes regularly for OutdoorGearLab.com and occasionally for other publications like Climbing Magazine.
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- AMGA Ski Guide
- AMGA/IFMGA Mountain Guide
- AMGA Alpine Guide
- AMGA Rock Guide
Specialities
AMGA: American Mountain Guides Association
The American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) is a 501(c)(3) educational non‐profit that is dedicated to supporting the American mountain guiding community. Their mission is to be the leader in education, standards, and advocacy for professional guides and climbing instructors.
As the leading organization of America’s most vibrant, inspiring community of climbers and skiers, the AMGA offers you cutting edge knowledge and hundreds of years of collective experience that you won’t get from any other climbing organization.