SATU KOURI

Satu is the R&D Lead and a Program Manager for Cloud Nine, whilst working on her resume for the ACMG Ski Guide stream. She is also a recent graduate of Timberline Alpine Academy's Outdoor Adventure Guide Diploma program. Originally from Finland, Satu has spent the last decade travelling the world, and completed a BSc focused on the human mind and body & climate change at Amsterdam University College, before finding her place to call home here in the Canadian Rockies.

Satu has always been an adventurous soul, with her love for the mountains tracing back to the family's ski holidays in the Alps and mountaineering stories of the Himalayas that she discovered in her early teens. Whilst volunteering in Tanzania, she summited Mount Kilimanjaro at the age of 17, and in 2018, she set off to Nepal for 3 months of trekking, where she met her future husband, Tom. Together they completed the Everest Three Passes trek, followed by a summer of road tripping and rock climbing across Europe. Ultimately, Satu's undeniable love for the mountains lead her to pursuing a career in the outdoor industry that accommodated the mountain lifestyle fulfilled with activities from ski touring, snowboarding, rock climbing, scrambling, and stand-up paddle boarding.

Besides all things mountain, Satu enjoys dancing, songwriting, drawing, and always learning something new about us human beings and the natural world around us.

You will find Satu instructing on our AST 1 courses and tail guiding on many of the C9G programs, and most likely, on the other end of the phone or the emails. If you would like to get in touch with Satu about partnership opportunities with Cloud Nine, please contact her at satu@cloudnineguides.com.