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Our Outdoor Team

Yüksel Yilmaz
Yüksel Yilmaz (1966), Director of the outdoor- department:
People who know s him and his expeditions from recent years call him "Indy". He spends most of his time exploring the mountains alone. The local villagers in the in the Eastern parts
of the Taurus villages know him really well. Before we prepare our travel programs, he is the one who walks and explores all the routes at the first stage. If he still has free time, he also guides some of our groups. It's possible that he'll be your guide if you book one of our programmes .
He speaks Turkish, German and English.
Indy´s travel advice: Turkey - the most special adventure playground in the world

Dr. Adnan Sari
Dr. Adnan Sari (1965), mountain guide:
Medical doctor Adnan was born and raised in the Kackar mountains, near the
Eastern part of the Black Sea . He satisfies his passion for the mountains by guiding some of our groups. If he still has free time, "Adik" goes to mountains with his friend Yüksel. Adik is multilingual, speaking Russian, English, German and , of course,
Turkish. languages . Adik´s travel advice: Ararat ski climbing...

Vedat Aydin
Vedat Aydin , mountain guide
We introduced him always as the youngest member of our team, but since
Eren Yildirim has started in the team, he is not anymore. But Vedat has much
experience n the Turkish mountains as he had already climbed up all known
mountains in Turkey. Rock climbing is his hobby and is now training in his free
times studies in the Alpine club of the University in Antalya. Vedat speaks
German and English. Since he is working with us, he made his hobby to his job

Yildirim Beyazit Öztürk
Yildirim Beyazit Öztürk (1972), mountain guide:
In addition to our Mt. Ararat expeditions, he trains mountain guides for the
Association of the Turkish mountaineers.He is a good friend of Mustafa and
a professional skiing teacher. He is our guide for Mt. Ararat
for ski tours and Summer climbs....
He loves climbing mountains with ski.

Mustafa Tekin
Mustafa Tekin (1976), mountain guide:
He comes from the Palandöken mountains in Erzurum , and has a great
experience in the mountains of Turkey . He is a skiing teacher during the Winter
season. In the Summer time, he guides our groups to the summit of Mt. Ararat .
And in addition to his mountain experience he is an excellent cook.
He loves to climb to Mt. Ararat....

Caglan Zaimoglu
Caglan Zaimoglu, (1972), mountain guide:
Thats what he says;-): my name is pronounced chaalan but my friends call me mountain goat.Since I was a little kid I loved to climb. The love of nature and the mountains were great therefore I used to go to the mountains and camp every time I had a holiday.Then I decided to move away from the biggest city of Turkey to Antalya and started to work as a mountain guide. It was my dream job and now it became realization.I am enjoying my job and that positive effect reflects to my life. Caglan is speaking English...
Katharina Ter Hell
Katharina ter Hell (1969), Mountain guide:
Katharina has been living in Adrasan next to the Lycian Way since 2002. It is not
surprising that, with all her passion for hiking and nature, she knows every single stone
around here. Apart from the tours around Adrasan, Katharina also guides hiking
tours in all Lycian area and escorts expeditions to Mount Ararat . Katharina
speaks English, German, Dutch, Spanish and Turkish.
Her travel advice: Lycia , and Adrasan, of course.
Michal Pokorny
Michal Pokorny (1973), Mountain and Canyoning- guide:
Michal has been rafting and canyoning all around Europe . But in between he is also
guides our expeditions. His languages are: Czech, Russian, English and some German. Michal ' s advice: Turkey - excellent water adventures...
Selcuk Akar
Selcuk Akar (1975), mountain guide and the man in the background:
He has studied Physics, but wanted to experience basic natural rules. Like how to get by ski to 15.000 feet and down. The first time this happened automatically, but after we teached him he found out how to do this under self control. And now after all these, he loves this job and has decided to stay with us. And now Selcuk is our man in the background mainly. But you can see him sometimes leading a group in the mountains. Selcuk is speaking very good German and some English.
Eren Yildirim Yetkin
Eren Yildirim Yetkin ( on the way of becoming a good montain guide).
There is not much to say about him as he is the youngest member in our team and
has started 2006. But he is not new in the mountains..... he is a good rock climber, experienced from the university alpine club. As he is young he has enough time to learn and sure we will make an update to ths page after knowing more about him....;-)
Mustafa Kücükakca
Mustafa Kücükakca (1952), our cook and
Süleyman Yetkin (1966), cook and driver together:
It is very important for us to not only show the people the village life in Turkey , but also to let our guests feel it. The local meals are a part of this rule. Mustafa and Süleyman are a wonderful team, indulging our guests with terrific Turkish meals. On top of that, Mustafa is very funny person. From the beginning to the end of our t rip , he tends to be the most
important person of the tour.
Süleyman Yetkin

Kesit Tourism and Travel Agency
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