Rolfe Oostra

Rolfe Oostra: High Altitude Mountaineer and Explorer 

Rolfe is a high altitude mountain guide, explorer and expedition leader.  He is Co- founder and director of 360 Expeditions.

He climbs and guides on every continent including on the 7 summits (the highest point on each) and with his infectious enthusiasm, an enduring sense of humour and outstanding leadership credentials he is in high demand.  He has led countless charity expeditions some consisting of up to 700 participants on London to Paris bike ride.  He has also organised private complex expeditions to the 8000m peaks including the summit of Everest.

His character and ability to adapt and to effortlessly problem solve while being incredibly accomplished and skilled in this adventure environment whether it from simple day treks to complex multi month expeditions  has propelled him into the elite bracket.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Rolfe is the head guide for 360 over seeing every aspects of an expedition on the ground. He guides in the Himalayas, on mountains such as Ama Dablam (6,812m), Manaslu (8,156 m), Everest (8,848m), Lhotse (8,516m),  Cho Oyu, (8,201m) Mera Peak (6,476m) and Island peak (6,189m) usually combined with Everest Base Camp (5,550m). When it’s off season there, he heads for South America to climb on Aconcagua (6,962m), in Europe on Elbrus (5,642m) or he can found in the Pyrenees (his home ground) running expedition skills courses. 
• One of Rolfe’s favourite mountains is Kilimanjaro (5,895m) and he has been to its summit 59 times (more than any other western guide).  
• In an epic ‘boy’s own adventure’ Rolfe spent two years in the Amazon basin, hacking through the jungle, wielding machetes, paddling 4,500km of uncharted tributaries in Brazil and Bolivia in dug-out canoes, and living with tribes who had rarely encountered foreigners.
• He spent four months in the Congo Rainforest basin paddling 1,100km up the Congo and Mawimi rivers, dodging angry hippos and civil wars, before trekking 450km from Beni to Kisingani.
• In 2011, Rolfe was the first Australian to ski off the summit of Muztagh Ata (7,548m) in the Himalayas, after a completely unsupported ascent, a style that he excels at. 
• In 1998 he and his wife, Marni lived with a remote, unvisited Samburu tribal community in Kenya and afterwards with the Hamar of Ethiopia, where he was privileged to witness ceremonies unseen by outsiders before him. 
• Rolfe has climbed countless named and unnamed peaks in New Zealand, the Andes, Africa and in the Himalayas, and put up new routes in Greenland, and the Karakoram.  
• You can find out more about Rolfe on the 360 Expeditions site and get an idea of what he does by watching these videos filmed on his expeditions. https://www.youtube.com/user/360Expeditions or follow him on FaceBook. https://www.facebook.com/RolfeOostra360?fref=ts