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KE Leaders and Local Staff
A competent, caring and efficient leadership team is essential for any group of adventure travellers. By definition, this type of travel will involve the unexpected, be it sudden storms, route diversions or transport breakdown. Thousands of satisfied clients can confirm that KE leaders take such situations in their stride, be it as rescuer, nurse, diplomat or mechanic. All of our holidays are accompanied by a professional leader or a local guide selected on the basis of his or her experience and leadership skills. Most of these leaders have worked for KE for many years and many are guides or instructors with an unrivalled knowledge of the areas, cultures and environments in which they work. In addition to having the technical skills to ensure your safety, KE expects its leaders to be active members of the group. A leader should be fun to travel with and ready to share with you their enthusiasm for adventure travel and their knowledge of the area. Alongside the group leader, there will be a local support crew, which could be just a driver, or a complete team of guides, drivers, porters, mule-herders and cooks. The hard work of our support crews, along with the fascinating insight they can offer into their own culture, is integral to providing you with the very best holiday experience.
The KE Leader of the Year 2012 is ...
Ade Summers
We were overwhelmed with your votes for the KE Leader of the Year Awards for 2012. Once again it was a close call but just pipping his colleagues to the top spot was another of KE's long standing and extremely experienced leaders, Ade Summers.
Ade has led numerous trips for KE for many years all over the world. Concentrating mainly on climbing trips such as Mount Khuiten in Mongolia, Mera Peak in Nepal and Aconcagua in Argentina.
In 2013 you will find Ade leading KE trips in Nepal in Spring, Pakistan in Summer whilst slotting in a few of our more pioneering adventure treks and climbs around the world either side of these seasons.
Congratulations to Ade, who is now the proud owner of a Minimus Down Jacket, provided by the mountaineer's favourite manufacturer PHD.
Thank you to everyone that voted and a special big THANK YOU to all the KE Leaders and the work that they put in to help make every KE holiday really special.
KE Leader of the Year Awards 2013 - Vote Now!
The 2013 Leader of the Year Awards are now open so make sure you vote for your favourite leader this year. To vote please email us the name of the leader that you think should win and your reasons why. The 2013 winner will be announced in January 2014!
>> Vote for your favourite Leader
Meet the KE Leaders
Here is just a selection of our current leaders, we have over 60 in total! More leader images are being added all the time, so please let us know if your favourite does not appear. Read about each of our leaders, by holding the cursor over each image!
We also have a new monthly feature 'Meet the Leaders' where we will be introducing you to the some of the leaders that work all over the world for KE. Find out how they got into leading, what they do in their spare time and what their favourite music is.
>> View 'Meet the Leaders' page
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| Ade Summers | Kathy Murphy | Val Pitkethly | Pramod Shrestha | Rob Fraser |
Jo Chaffer |
Cameron McNeish |
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| Julia Tregaskis | Ben Walker | Tom Richardson | Jose Molina Lopez | Colin Prior |
Uden Sherpa |
Emma Jack |
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| Keith Robson | Issie Inglis | Mohammed Bouchaoud | Oli Vann | Serena Brocklebank | Mark Dodwell |
Sarah Allan |
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| Hassan Ait Brahim | Jane Godfrey | Charlie Boscoe | Mustapha Imharken | Mehmet Nuri Ozden |
Mr Thanh |
Senthil Kumar |
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| Dougie Stewart | Ricky Yonzon | Yousef Zobi | Stuart Holmes | Wil Cardenos |
Glenn Rowley |
Sarah Quee |
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| Hamid Oumezdou | Thinles Dorje | Steve Bolnick | Raslan Abbadi | |||
