Josh Hoeschen

A long-time AMS guide, Josh is our Operations Manager and is based at our headquarters in Talkeetna. He oversees expedition and course management, including fieldwork, briefings, communications, staffing, and strategy. He joined the school in 2006 and has been guiding Denali expeditions and custom technical climbs, instructing mountaineering and skills-specific courses, and working on film production assignments ever since. Along with his work at AMS, Josh works during the (Alaskan) winter months as a mountain guide in Antarctica and as an adjunct faculty member for Alaska Pacific University, his alma mater. In his spare time, when not guiding or exploring Alaska’s wilderness, Josh can be found playing music and inventing some of the greatest forms of punctuation, like the Question mark.