Guide Qualifications:

Peace of Selby Wilderness Owners - Art Mortvedt, Damaris Mortvedt, and Be Sheldon. Each offers over 25 years of Arctic living.

Art Mortvedt has completed over 10 polar expeditions to both the North and South poles. He is an elected member of The Explorers Club, New York and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London. As a bush pilot and aircraft owner, Art has logged approximately 5000 flight hours in the Alaska bush. As an Alaska Registered Guide, Art has guided wilderness expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctica. Art has studied the traditional lifestyle of Inupiat Eskimos and other traditional cultures in South Africa, Australia, the Cook Islands, Greenland, and the Falkland Islands.

Damaris Mortvedt has spent over 30 years in Alaska teaching in remote Indian and Eskimo villages. She has cooked professionally in the Antarctic and in camps in remote areas of Alaska. She enjoys sharing the art of skin sewing and birch bark basket making.

Bernice Sheldon is a retired teacher who has spent over 30 years living in northwest Alaska Eskimo villages and in central Alaska. She enthusiastically shares her knowledge of Inupiat Eskimo culture and artifacts, and local bird species. She also enjoys sharing her quilting hobby.