Manzoor Ahmed

Manzoor Ahmed is a ski guide whose knowledge of the Pir Panjal’s backcountry routes is the sort you only get from a lifetime in these ranges. Off-piste Gulmarg is not a marked run with a patroller at the bottom. It is a set of decisions. Manzoor is the guide you want when those decisions start.

He reads wind, aspect and old tracks with the confidence of someone who has walked and skied the same bowls in lean years and fat years. Guests notice the calm more than the CV: he does not rush a group into a face because it looks good from the gondola.

On Himalayan Ibex trips he works the ski-guide roster — lessons that turn into tours, tours that turn back when the snowpack says so. Local, certified in the work, and at home on the mountain.