Pete Wright

Peter was born in Whitehorse Yukon and raised in the Atlin area and surrounding mountains. His father ran a outfitting business in Atlin, guiding for 50 years. Pete was adopted by the Etzenlee clan as a small child where he grew up in an all aboriginal family. In 1998 he began heli skiing with CMH (Cariboo Mountain Helicopter) in the Cariboo mountains working in the Cariboo Lodge in Valemount BC. Pete is a CSIA Ski Instructor and Canadian Wilderness First Aid certified advanced level. Pete is a certified Level One Canadian Ski Guide (CSGA) with Canada Avalanche Association training, CAA and CSGA advanced crevasse rescue training.

Over the years he has done many expeditions in the Atlin mountains, crossing the Juneau ice cap to the pacific from Atlin, leading Ski Mountaineering Expeditions on the St. Elias range and Mount Logan among others in the Yukon mountains.

During the summer months Pete owns and operates a gold mine in the Cariboo Goldfields near Barkerville BC.

His hobbies are mountaineering and ice climbing (Africa, Himalayas, Canada and Europe) Rock climbing (USA, Canada, Mexico and Thailand)

Pete says he would love to show off his home town Atlin and mountains to our heli ski guests, and drop in on his  family in Atlin.