Rustyn Mesdag

Rustyn was born in Seattle, Washington. He was working as an alpine guide when, in 2004, he relocated to Chilean Patagonia, where he started a guide service outside of Torres del Paine National Park, specializing in long-distance treks and big wall climbing.

For twenty-five years, he has been leading climbers, travellers and trekkers through the most extreme terrains around the world. Aside from the guide service, he moonlighted as a travel writer, published an English-speaking travellers’ newspaper in Patagonia, operated equipment centers, and immigrated between four countries. When he’s not working on expedition ships, he finds himself living the off-grid life in Central Washington.

Always looking for the next adventure, Rustyn still finds himself working around the world, in such places as South America, Antarctica, Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland, the Amazon, and East Africa – helping others explore. Rustyn speaks English, Dutch, and Spanish and is more than happy to sit and spend time discussing world travels, off-grid living, alpine climbing and the in’s and out’s of cold weather equipment management.