Expert guides
Welcome to Olly Suzi expeditions expert guides area.
The selection of a truely legendary guide is the most essential factor in planning a successful expedition. Today the experience and expertise of your guide is often overlooked in a quest to promote 5 star ratings or fill back to back itinarys. At OSE we aim to change this. We firmly believe your guide is the single most important element in a safe and successful Safari, the true value in the equation- the difference between a run of the mill experience and a life changing one. We take the time to perfectly match the correct guide to your exact requirements. When on expedition with us your guide will meet you at your arrival destination and will be on hand to guide you personally into their specific wilderness regions. They will be involved with every facet of your journey- indeed your expeditions success and your safety will be their utmost priority at all times. Here follows a profile of the wilderness experts who will be on hand to guide you, one on one into the wild. Each one of these remarkable individuals has helped us in our work in the bush over the years. We count them as our friends and it is our hope that some day soon you will too.
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Alan Bowe is a Kiwi maverick. Having retired from the rat race at the tender age of 40, Alan decided to up-sticks and settle in on the remote and tiny island of Mounu- a wild pig and two bottles of vintage rum later Alan has pionered humpback whale diving and whale conservation in Tonga.
Canat is regarded as National Geographic's top Mongolian guide.
Canat has been guiding for 11 years in remote regions of western Mongolia and is a fluent speaker of English, Kazakh, Mongolian and Russian.
Craig A Ferreira is one of the few pioneers in white shark conservation, research, filming and diving. Craig was one of the leading White Shark Research Project team members directly responsible for having the white shark declared a protected species in South Africa in 1991.
Dhan Bahadur Tamang or Danny as he prefers to be called is presently working in the capacity of Chief Naturalist at Tiger Tops
Jungle Lodge in Chitwan, Nepal.
He has more that 30yrs of experience in this area and is an expert Tiger Tracker. He has contributed a lot of his expertise to the International Trust for Nature Conservation (ITNC). 
Dave Allen is one of the last of the great white hunters. Since the ban on hunting in kenya in 1977 Dave has focused on guiding bespoke flying safaris deep into the untouched bush of his beloved Kenya.
He is also one of Kenya's most experienced bush piolets.
Derek is one of Alaskas foremost brown bear biologists and a liscenced Alaskan guide.
A field research biologist Derek worked for the Alsaka Department of Fish and Game for over 17 years before retiring to guide select clients into his favourite brown bear habitat.
Legendary underwater and Arctic cameraman of the BBC's 'The Blue Planet' fame.
Doug Allan is a freelance cinematographer. He is best known for his topside and underwater photography in cold remote places, but his travels have taken him all over the world filming both animals and people.
Dr Victor Boyarsky is one of Russias greatest living polar explorers. We travelled with Victor and his team to Sredny Zemelya and on to the North Pole in 2000 tracking polar bears and count him as a good friend and fantastic guide.
Festo is one of the top game guides in Tanzania. After serving for 10 years as a game ranger in the Selous Reserve, festo was recruited and retrained in client guiding and scouting by Richard Bonham with whom he worked for 17 years.
Inge is one of the ambitious young polar guides working today. We will be working with Inge on both winter and summer polar bear tracking expeditions on Svalbard from 2007...
Kenth runs one of the largest dog sled kennels in Arctic Sweden. For the past 20 years Kenth's passion has revolved around dog sled racing and long range dog sled expeditions. His credentials are impressive. He is one of only a handful of native Swedes who have completed the gruelling Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. He is an Arctic survival expert, ex Lapland ranger, and has lived in the remote village of Poikijarvi all his life.
Kubaan is one of the most experienced and respected trackers in Southern Africa.
For 15 years Kubaan ran the tracking and survival training for South Africa's Elite- Special Task Force- a covert cross border police unit. 
In the field of Arctic survival lars Falt is a legend.
For 35 years he instructed at the Swedish Army’s Ranger School in Kiruna, Lapland and the Parachute Training School, Karlsborg. He has also trained with USA's Delta force and the UK Special Forces.
For the past 18 years Olly and Suzi have made over 40 expeditions to wild and remote Arctic, desert, ocean and jungle regions on all continents in search of predators and their prey.
In addition to their work as collaborative artists who work in the wild, they have amassed a range of diverse skills and experience relevant to their work both as artists and guides in remote regions.
Rich is one of the most respected BBC underwater cameramen working today. His work in the Galapagos is nothing short of legendary and has contributed key Hammerhead sequences to both Planet Earth and Blue Planet. Rich is also expert in the remote Cocos islands. 
Richard Knocker was born and brought up in Kenya, where he developed a passion for the bush on family safaris at an early age.
Robert Thompson is a native Alaskan Inupiat cheif, wilderness guide, trapper and expert tracker.
Robert's passion revloves around guiding his clients in the controversial Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska's most northerly wildlife refuge and his home. 
Robin is one of the great african safari guides and a wonderful naturalist. As of 2007 Robin will be leading a speciual extended walk into some of his favourite and unexplored regions of the Zambian bush.
Roger fairbairn is a maverick- adventurer, expediton guide, overland mechanic and 4x4 off roading specialist.
Roland Purcell and his wife Zoe are true African safari pioneers.
Roland became an ape fanatic as a young lad, while working for the Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda. Next, he tracked down the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, and started Greystoke Mahale (nicknamed Zoe’s Camp) there on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in far western Tanzania.
From your first zebra to riding elephants; tracking gorillas or chimpanzees to swimming with dolphins; canoeing big rivers, climbing big hills and walking through pristine wilderness; Africa is so diverse you can spend your life seeing it. Having been blessed with the ability to travel I know that Africa is my home and like all good things it needs to be shared.
Silva is one of a new generation of bush guides in western Tanzania who, out of a passion for the bush, have worked their way to top guide status.
Alongside Festo who specialises in guiding in in the Selous reserve, Silva has dedicted his life to guiding professionally in the Katavi region and has undergone the intense training of the all Nomad-Tanzania's top guides and over the course of his apprentiship has excelled in his training. To quote Roland Purcel- director of Nomad Tanzania-"Silva was born to be a bush guide- you cant teach someone to see the bush like he does- he's a natural!"
Skip Novak, born in 1952 is an American based in Europe. He is best known for his participation in four Whitbread Round the World Yacht Races since 1977.
Stephen Wilkins is a highly self- motivated and energetic individual with two main passions - people and sailing. He is an effective communicator, with the ability to operate as both a leader and team member. In terms of both career and sailing, Stephen has never been shy of challenges or adventure.
Tony worked with George Adamson (of Born Free fame) and his lions for 20 years.
When George was tragically murdered in 1989, Fitzjohn was invited by the Tanzanian government to help save the dwindling wildlife of Mkomazi on the Kenyan/Tsavo border.