Tour Leaders
He has been in outdoor tourism business as a tour leader, multi activity tour guide,mountain guide and finally operation manager since his university study. He is also a volunteer for search and rescue associations as a mountain rescuer. Ercan is the partner founder of the company. We can describe him as very positive easy going travel mate, a patient tour leader with lots of experience and love to his job. He usually guides for our Mt Ararat Expeditions,Kilimanjaro Expeditions,Mt Damavand Expeditions,Atlas mountains as well as our adventure and culture trips in differents countries. He is also our alpine ski touring guide. He speaks fluent English and a little German. He owns International Fİrst Aid Certificate on Wilderness, American Heart Association CPR and AED Certification, Canadian Avalanche Association Avalanche Awareness L1 and L2 Certifications.
Leaving his long-term job, Gökhan has pursued the spirit of exploration and chose to be one the three founding partners of Montis Trips and Expeditions.
Since he started mountaineering in '94, he has been exploring the planet intimately by walking or climbing.
Gökhan, who enhance our company and expeditions with his organizational skills, has climbed Aconcagua (6962 m) in Southern America, Mont Blanc (4810 m) in the Alps, Elbrus (5642 m) in Russia, Kazbek (5047 m) in Georgia, driven across Patagonia (Ruta 40) and leaded several expeditions in Himalayas, Caucasus, Taurus, Kaçkar Mountains and Mount Ararat. He is also addicted to ski touring.
He is a neat and highly disciplined organizator besides being a positive and joyful host.
He speaks English fluently. He has ESCI (Emergency Care & Safety Institute) International First Aid in Wilderness Certification, American Heart Association CPR and AED Certifications. He is also licensed ham radio operator.
His mountaineering career started in 1993 as a fellow member of Hacettepe University Mountaineering & Outdoor Sports Club. As being experienced, he had a become a long time volunteer as an instructor in the club. He brought his leadin skills out to tourism professionalism and guided for trekking and climbing tours between 1998-2017 at different adventure travel companies.( in Ankara,Cappadocia,Antalya regions) He joined MONTIS Trips & Expeditions in 2017, October as a partner and trip leader. Ozgur’s cheerful and friendly manner added a positive value on his calm and experienced character in the mountains. It is always a unique chance to have him as a leader. He has a great variety of experiences over different places. He has trekked, travelled, summited and guided in Aladag Mountains, Bolkar Mountains,Mount Ararat, Suphan, Erciyes, Hasan Volcanos, Kackar Mountains, Bey Mountains, Lycian Way, Saint Paul Trail, Carian Trail, Cappadocia Trails, Otzal Alps-Austria, Algau Alps-Germany, Eastern Sierra Mountains and Yosemite Nevada-US. He is certificated for ‘’Wilderness First Aid, ECSII’’ and ‘’CPR&AED, AHA (American Heart Association ). He is also a permanent member of AKUT (Search and Rescue Team). He is good at downhill and backcountry skiing and ornitology. He has a good level of English and beginner level of Italian.
Our trips and expedition are a richly valued by Mustafa’s leadership and experience. He has an impressive experience on Turkey’s and world’s climbing and trekking routes. He is a passionate traveller and a succesful alpinist who trekked and climbed in Andeas,Pamirs, Tien Shans,Alps,Caucassus and Himalayas. He also achieved to reach the top of the planet, Mt Everest! He speaks fluent French and English.
With no doubt, he is the most experienced leader of the team about Nepal. He lead and organised many culture – trek tours in Nepal. He is a real Nepal freak. Mustafa’s participation will put a spell on your trip!
Starting his mountain and nature adventures in 2007 in the forests of Uludağ, Onat has been professionally and voluntarily providing mountaineering and rock climbing training since 2011. Onat, a geologist, provides training and consultancy on geology projects set in the mountains. He is a specialist of technical routes and trekking tracks in Aladağlar, he has been a tour climber leader and rock climbing instructor in winter and summer in many mountains such as Kaçkar Mountain summit and trekking routes, Ağrı Mountain, Tahtalı, Tunç Mountain, Hasan, Erciyes, Uludağ, Suphan. Onat's life motto is to discover, have fun and climb. Montis, which has been among the tour leaders team since its establishment, has been participating in the Montis team full time since 2016, making its difference with the dynamism and joy of Onat. Speaking English, Onat holds the International ESCI First Aid Certificate in Nature, American Heart Association CPR and AED certificates, Irata L1 and Sprat L2 certificates in the rope access industry.
He started climbing in 2004 with HUDDOSK (Hacettepe University Mountaineering and Nature Sports Club). He served in various branches of his club. Since then, he has been climbing in Aladağlar, Kaçkarlar, Erciyes and Hasan Volcanic Mountains, Uludağ Keşiştepe and Western Taurus Mountains and rock climbing areas such as Sivrihisar, Karakaya, Hüseyin Gazi Rocks and Geyikbayırı. In his climbing career; Aladağlar includes first exit, first winter exit, new route and first re-exits. He has a good knowledge of strength, strength and endurance training. He is still working as an instructor at HUDDOSK.
Being on the road… Achieving the small awards that life offers us… He led various climbs and groups in Ağrı, Kaçkar, Aladağlar, Caucasus, God Mountains, Pamir Mountains. He is a strong good companion, a patient and loving tour leader, one of the most successful alpinists raised by our country. He took part in workshops and organizations for the development of managerial skills for many different companies and middle and upper level managers. He speaks English.
He is one of the most talented outdoor sportmen of Turkey. His expert level outdoor abilities are yielded from nordic ski to scuba diving, biking to high altitude mountaineering and alpinism. He has been to the roof of the world, Mt Everest. As we have not enough space here to state his worl wide valid sertification at expert and instruction levels! He speaks fluent English.
A single word, mountain lover , indicates Selo. He is one of the well known members of country’s mountaineering society. He has always been the most preferrred leader’s of us. Patient, sympathizer,well disiplined tour leader and a well covered trip organizator. You will recognize the safety feeling due to his experience at first glance in a tour. He achieved many climbs on world’s mountains and travelled to many remote places. He guides for our trekking trips, climbing expeditions and outgoing tours. He speaks German and fluent English.
In this adventure that she started, following the spirit of the journey, saying that the opportunity does not happen, there were mountains, paths, historical places and of course cultural treasures. Later, she understood that she could increase her versatile personality, research and experiences by sharing with people, and eventually became a guide by taking the professional tourist guide cockpit. She guided many tours for many years and shared her knowledge with thousands of people. She owes this high dose of joy and energy to making new discoveries and sharing these discoveries with people. It invites you to plan new projects, research and tourism in different fields and to discover many beauties of the world together! Nurhan, the tour leader and guide of our cultural tours, adds joy, travel and endless knowledge to organizations! Especially the Black Sea Region trips become much more colorful with Nurhan.