Andy Elsberg, M.D.

Andy is an emergency room physician at Providence Hospital in Anchorage and an important member of our medical consultant team. With a long history of guiding and wilderness travel, Dr. Elsberg has a unique perspective on wilderness medicine and extreme-cold, high-altitude medicine. Andy began teaching mountaineering and skiing courses in Wyoming for NOLS in 1990. He first came to Alaska to climb the north and south summits of Denali in 1993 and the following year instructed the 30-day mountaineering courses for NOLS in the Chugach and Alaska Ranges. From 1997 to 2002, Andy taught courses for AMS and guided Denali expeditions for Alaska Denali Guiding and NOLS. He has led river and hiking trips in the Brooks Range for Arctic Wild. For many years he lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he trained and raced sled dogs in mid- and long-distance races including the Copper Basin, Percy de Wolfe, and in 2003, the Yukon Quest. Andy now lives in Anchorage and is married with two children; the whole family are avid skiers.