Ajaz Ahmad Sheikh

Ajaz Ahmad Sheikh brings ten years of guiding on Gulmarg’s most demanding terrain. He carries an encyclopaedic knowledge of local slopes — where the snow holds, where the crowd goes, where a nervous skier can still have a good morning.

His manner is calm and reassuring. First-timers feel it immediately; experienced skiers notice that he does not waste runs. The hill is large. A good guide spends your energy on the right snow.

With Himalayan Ibex he is a ski guide in the full sense: instruction when you need it, mountain sense when you do not, and hospitality that is Kashmiri rather than scripted.