<strong>Susan Oakey-Baker</strong> has twenty years of outdoor experience, having spent time ski touring, mountaineering, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, whitewater rafting and biking all over the world. She has worked as a nationally certified backpacking guide in Africa, Nepal and North America and has guided more than 100 people, ranging in age from 16 to 85, to the top of Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, for the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia. Her photographs and writing have been published in <em>Pique</em> magazine, the Alpine Club of Canada <em>Gazette</em> and the <em>Canadian Alpine Journal</em>. She lives in Whistler, British Columbia with her husband, Joe, and their 6-year-old son, Sam.
