MOUNTAIN TRACKS - Key Persons
Andrey ‘Andrew' Golovachev, is an IFMGA aspirant ski guide, an avid alpine climber and a devoted adventure photographer. Organized and guided trekking expeditions, climbs and ski tours in Tajikistan's Pamirs, Patagonia, Peru, Morocco, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Caucasus and Kamchatka. A full member and meets the organiser of the British Alpine Club. Travelled to over 40 countries. Lived in the UK for 4 years. Certified first aider and holder of Canadian Avalanche Association Pro Level 1 equivalent certificate.
I am a fully qualified BASI Level 4 ski instructor and have over 16 seasons under my belt teaching in Scotland, New Zealand, Italy and France. Over the last 5 years I have been based in Les Trois Vallées where I am now a partner in Sweet Snowsports.
I have spent much of my career involved in instructor training, specifically coaching and managing long-term development programmes for up-and-coming instructors.
I've been in the mountains since I was a kid, and I practiced many sports, until I have devoted soul and body to the mountain, my great passion. I have been Alpine Guide since 2009 and I started to dedicate myself to this noble craft: the intention to communicate to others this my enthusiasm for mountaineering together with the necessary technical knowledge. I am lucky to visit so many beautiful places, every time a great discovery and adventure.
I've started rock climbing on the granite outcrops of Dartmoor and the sea cliffs of south-west England as a teenager. My love of the mountains has led to adventures on six continents from sea stacks to the high Himalaya. Twenty years on, I now share the enthusiasm for the mountains year-round, quite simply - 'I have the best job in the world!'
Floss is a British BASI Level 4 ISTD Ski Teacher based in the Espace Killy in France. She started skiing at the age of nine on a family ski holiday and whilst "learning to ski didn't come easy", she is now one of a limited number of British female ski instructor qualified to the highest level in her profession.
Floss has been ski teaching all over the world for 16 years now and with 19 ski seasons under her belt (she says that makes her feel old!) she's still as passionate as ever.
Winter or summer, climbing or skiing, soaring in my paraglider high above the ground; it doesn't matter if I am guiding or just having fun with friends, I am just happy when I am in the mountains. Guiding for me is not a job - it is a state of mind and a lifestyle. Winter in the mountains has always been a special time when I get to indulge my passions for skiing, ice climbing and even Himalayan expeditions. I have spent a lot of time working as a ski instructor, and in 2014 I became an IFMGA qualified mountain guide, allowing me to guide off-piste and tours to my heart's content! I love to show off secret ski lines in Zinal or Chamonix to my clients or explore all over the Alps and Slovenian mountains on skis with them. In the summer, I am guiding all over the Alps - it is great to reach the top of a high mountain with clients, no matter the season. It is my pleasure to be part of the Mountain Tracks' team!
Job Titles:
- IFMGA Mountain Guide & Lead Guide
I have been an IFMGA guide since the year 2000 and have 30 years of climbing and mountaineering experience.
For me it all started on the gritstone edges of my home county Derbyshire and from a young age I was hooked on climbing and the mountains, many adventures and expeditions followed including notable new routes on Greenland's big walls. In the 90's I spent many years leading mountaineering expeditions in the greater ranges and summited on many high peaks of the Himalayas and the Andes. In the winter of 2012 I completed winter ascents of the north face of the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grand Jorasses. Solo climbing, both roped and un-roped has always been a special forte and over the years have completed numerous difficult solo climbs throughout Britain and the Alps.
I live on the edge of the Peak District with my wife Edyta and three young children Mia, Harry and James, close to the crags which is hugely important to me and enables me to climb whenever I have time.
Job Titles:
- IFMGA Mountain Guide & Lead Guide
Born and raised in the mountains, Pat's passion for winter sports started at a very young age. He made the switch from skiing to snowboarding in 1999 and hasn't looked back since, venturing off with his snowboard & splitboard to find the best of the backcountry.
Sandy Allan was born and raised in Dalwhinnie in the Highlands of Scotland and has been climbing since his teens. He qualified as an IFMGA/BMG guide in 1993. Since the 1980s he has established many hard new winter and mixed climbs in Scotland and in the Himalaya. He has guided clients to the summits of many of the highest mountains in the world including Mount Everest and Cho Oyu. As well as guiding in the Himalaya, he has been involved in many expeditions including Muztagh Tower, Lhotse West and the Scottish Direct Route on the south face of Pumori. In 2012 he completed the first ascent of one of the Himalaya's most coveted, unclimbed climbs - the Mazeno Ridge of Nanga Parbat and was awarded the Piolet d'Or in 2013.
Sandy will act as a Course Director for all Scottish courses and if for some reason he will not be able to guide them he will select a qualified UK mountain instructors and leaders or another IFMGA guide. We select these instructors with care and many of these are members of the Association of Mountain Instructors (AMI)