Rob Gowler

A part of the AMS family since 2001, Rob is one of AMS’s fundamental guides who handles our toughest guiding and teaching assignments. He has been a full-time climber and backcountry skier since 1989, and a professional mountain guide since 1995. Rob is highly organized; he was our field staff and operations manager from 2005 to 2012. He can also be found working in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Moab, Utah, teaching rock climbing, ice climbing, and avalanche courses. He is a backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering guide and has led successful expeditions, both skiing and climbing, in Alaska, Ecuador, Peru, and Patagonia, where he climbed Fitzroy in 2001. He has worked as a snow safety/avalanche forecasting and high-angle rescue for the World Free Skiing Championships in Valdez, Alaska. A Spanish speaker, Rob has led over 15 expeditions to Aconcagua, the highest mountain in South America. He is often in far-off lands, flying in his paraglider, piloting his drone, or surfing. Rob draws on his extensive expertise to work for film production companies filming and managing a myriad of risks in remote wilderness locations across the planet. He writes, “I love AMS and feel extremely privileged to work for the best.”