{"id":19492,"date":"2010-07-22T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/the-alpine-scotsman-mike\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:08:49","slug":"the-alpine-scotsman-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/the-alpine-scotsman-mike\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alpine Scotsman Mike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alpine Scotsman Mike Guest \u2013 \u201cthe Motor Mouth\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When we ran into Mike Guest in the Swiss Alps, just about starting up the <br \/>Alpine Legends business, we pretty soon realized we couldn\u00b4t set up a guide <br \/>team without this energetic smiling Scotsman! Born in Edinburgh the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of <br \/>July 1980, the Scottish mountains always been a playground, either on MTB <br \/>or on skis. Pretty naturally Mike found his way to Engelberg, Switzerland, which <br \/>now has become one of his favorite ski resorts and the base during the last <br \/>powder seasons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2010\/mike-smile-snow-enegelbug_99198973.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with <br \/>abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to <br \/>learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. Those are some of Mike\u00b4s <br \/>mottos in life. As well, Mike has many strings to his bow. Scotland has more <br \/>than mountains, a lot of wind and seas around too. So this summer the busy <br \/>Kite surfer Mike, after been touring as event technician, also kite surfs as much <br \/>as possible. Except for continuing to serve and guide our guests around the Alps, <br \/>Mike\u00b4s vision for the future is to build up the Kitesurfing school in Scotland. Sounds <br \/>very much Mike, compared to his dark secret from the early years in Edinburgh, <br \/>when the active young man used to practice ballet\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2010\/mike-bike_99199302.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of Mike\u00b4s best memories from different adventures was the night ski touring <br \/>with Legend Roger Kingston from Hairs mountain Heli Wanaka, New Zealand. \u201cRog <br \/>comes over for his chill time in Engelberg and we did the classic Titlis round tour and <br \/>had a mad full moon pow pow mission, nothing steep, no crazy lines, but pure and <br \/>simple fresh pow pow boot deep. As you made your turns you could almost hear <br \/>every snow flake move under your feet. Oh yeah and to top it off there was a bottle <br \/>of wine at the hut waiting for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2010\/mike-aviemore-203_99199528.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Scotsman is looking forward to another winter in the Alps, in the fancy <br \/>Peak Performance guide clothes, and I am sure our guests that already went <br \/>traveling with Mr Guest also look forward to his return. We round it off with <br \/>another wise phrase from Mike;\u00a0 \u201cWe are on this planet to SHARE the knowledge <br \/>we have with each other. For me this comes in the form of my guiding work with <br \/>Alpine Legends, the teaching of kite surfing and the guiding of people on the bike <br \/>in the hills. I get my buzz from making people buzz!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alpine Scotsman Mike Guest \u2013 \u201cthe Motor Mouth\u201d When we ran into Mike Guest in the Swiss Alps, just about starting up the Alpine Legends business, we pretty soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}