Meet your guides
Freeride Guiding
Our roots are in Saas-Fee and the Val d’Anniviers. Years of skiing and guiding here have brought together a small team of ski and mountain professionals who know the terrain, care about good decisions and enjoy sharing a day on snow.
Local knowledge. Experienced ski and mountain guides.
Get to know the people
you will ski with.
Saas-Fee and the Val d’Anniviers sit among the high peaks of the Swiss Alps, with glacier terrain, long descents and plenty of quieter corners to explore. Our international team brings together freeride guiding, ski instruction and coaching. We choose the day’s terrain around the snow, the weather and the people skiing with us.
Join us for freeride lessons, avalanche and backcountry training, or a private ski touring trip. We work in several languages and can organise itineraries elsewhere in Switzerland and further afield. Whether it is your first day with us or a return visit, we want you to feel comfortable asking questions, developing your skiing and enjoying the time off snow, too.
Stefano Carlin
Freeride ski guide
- Adventure Tourism graduate, with the Swiss Brevet Fédéral, freeride guide certification and training as a professional avalanche technician.
- Teaching and coaching since 2002 in Spain, France, Chile, Canada, Andorra and Switzerland.
- Experience in alpine racing, freestyle and telemark, with plenty of ways to help different skiers progress.
- An all-round skier and passionate freerider who enjoys turning guests into lifelong skiers.
- Languages: French, English and Spanish.
Paloma Alonso
Freeride ski guide
- Holds the Swiss Brevet Fédéral, freeride guide certification and ISIA ski instructor qualification, with Swiss Snowsports and EEE training.
- Graduate in sociocultural animation, with the highest adaptive skiing certifications from Tessier and GRSA.
- Teaching adaptive and non-adaptive skiing since 2010 in Spain, Chile, Switzerland, Argentina and New Zealand.
- An all-round skier who loves the mountains and organising skiing, sport and other activities for people with disabilities.
- Languages: Spanish, French, English and Italian.
Ellen Amann
Ski instructor · Swiss Brevet Fédéral
- Nationality: German.
- Swiss Brevet Fédéral snowsports instructor.
- Favourite place to ski: Chandolin.
- Favourite thing about teaching: finding the balance between helping guests progress and giving them the patience and reassurance to feel comfortable.
- Other interests: biking and being outdoors.
- Interesting fact about yourself: I did vaulting (voltigieren) until I was 20 years old.
Nick Parks
UIAGM Mountain Guide
- UIAGM international mountain guide, originally from Great Britain.
- Has lived and worked in Switzerland for many years.
- Helps guests pursue their skiing ambitions, from touring days to heli-skiing journeys.
- Specialises in finding good snow and untracked slopes, with a lasting enthusiasm for sharing the mountains.
Our guiding team grew out of Ski Zenit’s work in Saas-Fee and the Val d’Anniviers. Le Beau Ski is part of BrookLin Collective Sàrl. To learn more about our approach, our other teams or a trip you have in mind, get in touch.
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Temperature and Snowpack Stability in Val d’Anniviers and Saas-Fee: A Ski Tourer’s Guide
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