July 24, 2017 You might wonder what a high altitude sherpa climber from Nepal might be doing this summer. Well, IMG Guide Phunuru Sherpa was in Yosemite Valley this past week training with the National Park Service Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR) Team. He reports a lot of great climbing and training up in the […]
July 18, 2016 IMG Lead Guide Justin Merle hit a mile marker on the Kautz Glacier of Mt. Rainier last week, July 14. Justin, a world traveled guide for IMG, now has seven summits of Mt. Everest to his name. But last week was all about Mt. Rainier. Justin completed his 150th successful ascent. […]
June 9, 2016 I completed my 500th successful climb of Mt. Rainier in 2010. Since that time I have been the sole member of the “500 clubâ€. That status changed on Tuesday when good friend, and RMI guide, Brent Okita completed his 500th ascent. I remember very well when Brent first started at RMI in […]
April 5, 2016 A few weeks ago we posted a note about a fire that took out IMG Guide Rob Jantzen’s van and subsequent home… Here’s a follow-up from Rob himself: ————— I would like to say a huge thank you to IMG, my fellow guides, clients, people I don’t even know, and the amazing […]
August 31, 2015 By Craig John Twenty eight years ago I worked my first climb as a guide on Mt. Rainier. It was actually a week long seminar with five other guides, one of which was Nawang Gombu Sherpa. We had done three days of training which included ice axe arrest, cramponing, rope travel for […]
May 8, 2015 On May 12 at 7:00 pm IMG Guide Craig John will be doing a multi-media presentation on Everest as a fundraiser for the Sherpa who we work with in Nepal whose homes were lost or damaged as a result of the earthquake. The event will take place at the Freeport Community Library […]
April 3, 2014 IMG has worked with the Chinese Mountaineering Association (CMA) since the 1980’s so it was no surprise that they got in touch recently to see if we could send over a couple of our IMG guides for a mountaineering safety seminar. Every year CMA hosts this meeting, and for 2015 it was […]
October 17, 2014 We at IMG are fortunate to have one of our awesome guides, Cedric Gamble, hanging out with us in the office this week while Tye’s out guiding our 3 x 3 trek in Nepal. We asked him for some nice blog material, and he delivered! School is a hazy memory of teachers, […]
October 16, 2014 So what becomes of our guides when Rainier season wraps up?  IMG Guide Cedric Gamble sheds a little light on where you might find them… Sunlight crept over the Cascade Volcanoes heralding in the last day of the 2014 Mt. Rainier climbing season. There were nine guides at Camp Muir that morning, so […]
September 29, 2014 As the summer turns to fall it gets harder and harder to get everybody together, so on Friday we rallied as many IMG guides, staff and partners as we could for the Mariners vs Angels game. 28 of us in total showed up to watch the Mariners defeat the Angels 4-3. […]
