Elke Braun - Elwert, Alpine Recreation
When Twizel’s Elke Braun-Elwert was asked at school what she wanted to do for a living, she knew the answer: mountain guiding. “My father was a mountain guide, so I grew up exposed to it,” she says. “But Dad told me I had to go to university first and get an education. He wanted me to have something to fall back on in case I injured myself.”
Braun-Elwert’s father owned the guiding company Alpine Recreation. He saw the benefit of having an instructing or teaching background, which is not necessarily taught in traditional guiding courses. “He recommended I become a ski instructor first and then
