Office Staff

Founder and CEO, lived in Nepal for more than five years beginning in 1972.  He speaks Nepali with native fluency, and eight other languages.  Prior to founding ATC in 1982, he was a professional photographer in New York and Kathmandu, and produced an album of Nepali folk music for Smithsonian/Folkways Records. 

Steve’s daughter and COO of ATC, celebrated her second birthday at her Nepali grandparents’ home in eastern Nepal, and by the age of seven had several Himalayan treks under her belt.  She has traveled and led groups throughout the Indian subcontinent, trekked in Europe and lived for a while in Patagonia after her graduation from the University of Vermont.