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Heliski started in Chile in 1987, when a small group of friends gathered together and decided to explore the majestic and beloved Andes mountain range. Little by little we discovered a wonderful treasure, which through the years, and with the incorporation of new friends and mountain lovers, who were in activity for 11 years, we decided to found Andes Heliski, the first heliski/heliboarding company in Chile.
The homologation of the vast territory, that we use exclusively, and the professionalism and preparation of each one of us makes of Andes Heliski a reference point for anyone wanting to live an unforgettable experience. Due to our continental weather, and the high peaks, snowfalls tend to be of dry and cold content. As an added bonus, the spring conditions are unbelievable! Our vast terrain is well suited for strong intermediate and expert skiers.
Andes Heliskiing
Doctor Manuel Barros Borgono 233
Providencia Santiago
Chile
phone: (562) 810 - 4800
email: info@andesheliski.cl
"Heliskiing above the Arctic Circle. The ultimate freeride skiing adventure in an arctic mountain region with half the size of Austria. Each year between the mid winter storms and the reindeer summer grazing a unique arctic area is open for untracked powder skiing aventures. Hundreds of unique peaks are waiting for your freeride tracks. The options for fantastic Heliskiing have nearly no limits. No other place in Europe offers the same possibilities for heliskiiing than the region of Bjorkliden, Abisko, Riksgransen and Kebnekaise."
Arctic Elements
Arctic Elements AB
Tjadervagen 17
139 53 Varmdo, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0) 70 341 50 35
info@arcticelements.com
"Arctic Heli Skiing is operated by Bergmenn Mountain Guides on the Troll Peninsula in Northern Iceland. After operating ski touring and ski mountaineering trips on the Troll Peninsula for the past 10 years we have now extended our program to Heli Skiing. The potential for world class down hill skiing is mind blowing with thousands of slopes and peaks waiting for their first descent with vertical descents of up to 1500m or almost 5000ft. Our vast terrain covers more than 4000 square kilometers, or 1500 square miles of breathtaking Arctic mountains with terrain that suits every skiers ability be it extreme couloirs or wide open glaciers. Our position just below the Arctic Circle with the mountains rising straight out of the sea allows for a skiing experience of a lifetime, skiing all the way down to the ocean basking in the rays of the Midnight Sun. This can give the concept of night skiing a whole new meaning."
Arctic Heli Skiing
Bergmenn Mountain Guides
Box 88 - 620 Dalvik
Iceland
Phone: +354 698 9870
email: info@bergmenn.com
"Fantastic Asia Ltd (aka FantASIA) - is a Kyrgyzstan based full service adventure travel company, founded and run by outdoor people for outdoor people and not only. We specialize in All Types of high quality travel services around Central Asia and can handle just about any travel arrangement necessary."
Fantastic Asia Ltd
Umetalieva str 16-37
Bishkek 720010
Kyrgyzstan
Phone: +996 312 906-360
email:nfo@fantasticasia.net
"The west coast of Greenland offers the most stunning and unparalleled heliskiing in the world. Descents of 2000 meters to the water's edge, coupled with the profound cultural experience, make Greenland Heliskiing second to none. Lodging in modern houses rented from the local population, we are in close contact with the locals in the beautiful little village of Kangaamiut."
Editors Note: In the winter of 2003 I spent a week with this outfit and the owner Hans Solmssen - and it was the single best week of skiing (heli or otherwise) I have ever had. Hans runs a first class operation. It's also difficult to see where on earth one might get better terrain and a more exotic location.
Swiss Guides
Verbier, Switzerland
Phone: +41 79 446 2289
"Gulmarg Heliski is a partnership between local Kashmir mountain guide Billa Bakshi and New Zealand ski industry businessman Martin Jones. With experienced international mountain guides, a Squirrel B3 helicopter, and a private helicopter base at our hotel - Gulmarg Heliski is proud to offer heliski and snowboard clients exclusive access to the PIR PANJAL RANGE - the very best Himalayan powder that Kashmir has to offer."
"With access to 22 peaks all over 4,000m you can choose from a huge range of north facing powder bowls, and the peaks of Sunrise and Sunset at 4,376m and 4,349m. The highest peak in the Pir Panjal Range is Punch Peak at 5,570m. From one of these peaks, runs are down to tree level at 3,000 m or down to 2,000 m at valley floor depending on snow and freezing level. Our helicopter is a brand new French made Aero-spatial AS 350 B3 that holds 4 people and your guide. "
Gulmarg Heliski
email: martin@gulmargheliski.com
"The skiing resort of Krasnaya Polyana is 60 km. away from Sochi, Russia, 550 m. above the sea level, in the south - west of the Main Caucasian Range. We invite all HELI-SKI fans to open the HELI-SKI season in Krasnaya Polyana."
"On behalf of the entire team we are happy to inform you that Himalayan Heli Adventures is beginning to offer heli-skiing in the Indian Himalayas."
Looks like an outfit that brings down a bird and pilot from Air Zermatt in Switzerland. Not much information on their website, though I would imagine it is done in conjunction with Swiss UIAGM guides - organized primarily for the benefit of their European clients.
Himalayan Heli Adventures
Phone: +91 9816025899
E-mail: hhs@sancharnet.in
"Himalayan Heli Ski Guides was founded in 2001. It is the first and only Company allowed to Heli Ski in the Kingdom of Nepal. Each year Himalayan Heli Ski Guides (HHSG) will open a new area in Nepal's Himalaya for Heli Skiing. In agreement with the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism, this will be done in a way, which pays respect to the native people, the environment and the wildlife."
"To date we have skied in the Annapurna, Everest and Dhauligiri region, mostly in the Annapurna region, with the main reason being the fact that it has a 70 kilometer long north facing mountain chain which means it holds the snow well and for a longer period of time thus making it very dependable, its also further west which is the direction most of Nepal's winter storms come from, which also means the area typically gets more storms and bigger storms then the eastern side of Nepal for example."
"The Ghandaki lodge is a comfortable lodge called Homde sitting at 3,200 meters in the Manang valley. Homde has the only airport in the region, it is normally open from mid March to December, with snow conditions predicting the operating status. All the rooms are comfortable and supplied with sleeping bags made for Everest expeditions thus insuring you a warm and comfortable sleep. All meals are prepared by our staff and are continental and local dishes. The area boasts spectacular views of the Annapurna's, Pisang Chula peaks etc. This region is known as the most spectacular part of the Annapurna trek."
Himalayan Heli Ski Guides
Phone: +33 9 71 39 03 59
email: info@heliskinepal.com
"We are glad to offer you a series of ski-tour programs, made and carried out only by professional staff of KanTengri LTD company. These programs discover Northern and Central Tien Shan in a different season - winter, spring and summer for wild slope ski and snowboard facilities. The altitude overfall is about 2000 meters. Even profesional skiers will never fill indefferent skiing on a fast snow and rare visited mountains."
Kan Tengri LTD
10 Kasteyev street,
050010, Almaty Kazakhstan
Phone: +7 727 2910200
email: info@kantengri.kz
"Kyrghyzstan has a lot of opportunities for heli-skiing in the mountains. 95 % of the territory of the country is lying in the mountains of Tien-Shan. Hundreds of virgin slopes are waiting for the skiers who love wild nature and nice free runs on the fresh snow. Experienced pilots of the helicopter MI-17 can land on the peaks and passes at the altitude of 4500 m, with the group of 15 skiers. The run of the decent is 1-5 km. Different regions are used for skiing."
Kyrgyzstan Heli Ski
68/9 Usenbaev st., Bishkek
720021, Kyrgyzstan
Phone: +996 312 280788
email: edelweiss@elcat.kg
"Welcome to Heli ski Riksgransen. We are situated 300 km north of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Sweden, the land of the midnight sun. From the ski resort Riksgransen we offer Heli skiing in the true wilderness of Swedish Lapland. We have a total heli ski area of 60 000 square km, with more than hundred peaks, about the size of Austria. The mountains in the close area provide 700-1000 m vertical and if you fly in to the more remote areas of Marma and Kebnekaise you get up to 1500m vertical."
Mountain Guide Travel
Rasundavagen 156
SE-169 36 Solna
Sweden
Phone: +46 70 249 4700
email: info@mountainguide.se
"Powder South Heli-Ski Guides is today South Americas's premier helicopter skiing operation, located in the heart of the Central Andes of Chile. After 5 seasons of successful operation, we proudly continue to offer excellence in heli-skiing deep in the enchanting and rugged Andes Mountain Range of southern South America."
"Powder South offers Heli-Packages in the Chilean Central Andes, primarily between latitude 32 degrees and 35 degrees south. We are based outside of Santiago, Chile where we have access to thousands of hectares of unlimited terrain, literally about 500,000 hectares/ or 1 million Acres! With all 4 areas we use from the Lodge. Our terrain offers the most beautiful faces, steep couloirs, exciting ridges, big bowls and even volcanoes"
"Open fire at the lodge after skiing, temperatures are mild at the lodge... terrain is intense up high At the lodge you will be able to enjoy all the amenities expected from a mountain lodge, an outdoor hot tub and swimming pool, gourmet cuisine, and infinite Chilean hospitality. Treat yourself to a massage after skiing, or read a book in front of the fireplace while served delicious appetizers prepared daily by our Chef."
"We have the privilege of high altitude dry snow, synonymous with champagne powder at its best. Snow accumulation comes from the Pacific Ocean, a mere 100 miles (160 km) west of the Andes. Flying conditions are best during winter, due to an almost zero thermal reduction, a daily weather phenomena in summer, caused by heat and cumulus build-up in early afternoon."
Powder South
1303 Sumac Ave
Boulder, CO 80304
USA
Phone: +1 303 447 2858
email: powder@heliskiguides.com
Operation run by Swiss guides with Swiss helicopters and pilots brought down each season. Seven day packages with accomidation.
Turkey Heli Ski SA
Verbier, Switzerland
Phone: +41 27 771 72 50
email: info@turkeyheliski.com
"Kamchatka, this long forbidden, mystical peninsula in the far east of Siberia is the goal of this voyage. Situated between the Okhotsk Sea in the west and the Strait of Bering in the east, this vast area was a restricted military zone and therefore a blank spot on the map. Today you can access Kamchatka, with 370 000 square kilometers nearly as big as France, and find a mainly untouched nature environment."
Kamchatka's landscape is ruled by an extensive number of more or less active volcanoes. About 10% of all the volcanoes on the dry land of our planet are to be found here. With it's 4750 meters, Klychevskaya is the highest of all of Kamchatka's and Siberia's summits.
From most of the volcanoes one can see the ocean. A more than 2500 kilometer long spectacular coast line forms wild fiords and cliffs. This unique nature reserve is home to the biggest Codiac and Grizzly bears on earth. These are particularly happy, when thousands of fat salmon fill the pristine rivers on their annual migration.
Our lift, a sturdy MI 8 helicopter with room for 20 passengers, is exclusively reserved for us. Our pilots showed their capability during perfect drop-offs in strong winds and sensitive decisions if the conditions got too rough. There are no restrictions in the choice of landing zones other than weather and snow conditions.
Vertik Alny Mir
Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7 495 785 3600
email: info@vertikalny-mir.com
"Where the Caucasus Mountains meet the Black Sea, they still show imposing summits higher than 3000 meters. Tucked into this wild Alpine environment we find the legendary ski area of Krasnaya Poliana."
"Half an hour taxi-ride off the coastal town called Sochi beams you right into a spectacular alpine valley crowned by proud summits glowing in the afternoon sun. The coastal resort town of Sochi and the neighboring mountain valley of Krasnaya Poliana has been a famous tourist destinations in the days of the Soviet Union. Today there are a number of hotels, chalets and restaurants, which are built to meet modern western standards."
Vertik Alny Mir
Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7 495 785 3600
email: info@vertikalny-mir.com
French outfit run by guieds from Chamonix. Programs runin conjunction with Russian guides in Krasnaya Poliana and Kamchatka
Les Voyageurs
Vallorcine - France
email: contact@heliski-russia.com
