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Multi-skilled specialists on the world stage
Naoyuki Kato is a mountain guide and snowboard guide who enjoys traveling around the world and sharing his excitement with people through guiding.
As a personal guide, he guides mountains all over Japan throughout the year, and in the winter he is the director and head guide of TENGU CAT-SKI GUIDES in Hokkaido and Kita Daisetsu. He ski guides in Alaska, Canada, and the European Alps, as well as nationally in the spring. Fascinated by the mountains through snowboarding during college, he enrolled at the University of Alaska Fairbanks after graduating.While enjoying the wilderness life while attending school, he built a unique mountaineering style of climbing and descending glaciers using a splitboard. . He has carved his footsteps in difficult mountains such as Denali (6,194m) in Alaska, and after returning to Japan, he has devoted himself mainly to Himalayan 6,000-8,000m peaks.
"STEEP DEEP"
Various tours and correspondence as a personal guide
In recent years, based in Europe, the United States and Japan, especially Hokkaido, he has been working as a guide while finding value in fair mountain trips that return to his origins. The base is North Taisetsu. A private guided tour of the surrounding area in a small group.
- Able to meet all needs from beginner to advanced
- English support is available, so Japanese organizers can feel at ease
- Various workshops (splitboarding, self-rescue, etc.) are also possible
Profile
Naoyuki Kato
[Qualifications, etc.]
・IFMGA/UIAGM International Mountain Guide
・JAN Avalanche Operator Level II ・Professional Member
・Wilderness Medicine Institute Wilderness First Responder
・patagonia Snow Ambassador
Karakoram
Ambassador
guide area
| main guide area | Hokkaido (Eastern and Northern Hokkaido including Northern Daisetsu) |
| Other areas | Overseas and Honshu are also possible |
| Representative name (guide qualification) | Naoyuki Kato (International Mountain Guide) |
| Main guide name (guide qualification) | Naoyuki Kato (International Mountain Guide) |
| Number of affiliated guides | 1 full-time employee (including 1 qualified employee) |
| guide ratio | 1 guide: 5 guests * Up to 2 people for mountaineering using ropes |
| percentage of guests | Skiing/Snowboarding (4 vs. 6) / Men and Women (5 vs. 5) |
rental
Gear rental is negotiableprice
| 1DAY | From 50,000 yen (depending on the number of people) |
| other | Mountaineering using ropes is also available |