About the Author

Name: Jimmy Odén

Born: 1971

Nationality: Swedish

Lives in: Verbier, Switzerland, since 1993

Occupation: UIAGM mountain guide, Bureau des guides - Verbier

Memberships: Swedish Mountain Guide Association (serves on the training committee) and Swiss Mountain Guide Association.

Other: has been skiing fulltime since 1990, in the Alps, Scandinavia, Greenland and elsewhere