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BallaghBlyth Outdoor Professionals BallaghBlyth is where you can find all your professional outdoor guiding/instructing and photography needs! Sophie Ballagh
Kia Ora! Ewan Blyth
G'day!

Sophie is an outdoor professional from New Zealand. She has been adventuring, instructing and guiding in her home country and around the world for the last decade. Sophie holds numerous New Zealand Outdoor Instructors Certificates as well as having completed her Boat Masters, Advanced Wilderness First Aid and Marine Radio Operators licences. Sophie has been engaged in key roles in designing and im

plementing outdoor education programmes and expeditions throughout New Zealand and Asia and has professionally instructed in white water kayaking, sea kayaking, rock climbing and off-track navigation. During her professional guiding career, Sophie has lead countless multi-day sea kayaking expeditions in the rugged fiords of her native New Zealand and along Canada’s famed BC coast in addition to guiding clients on river trips and multi-day hiking journies. Her expertise extends to the polar world where she has spent many seasons guiding clients on hikes, sea kayaking trips and small boat excursions around the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, along the Antarctic Peninsula and around the rugged and remote South Georgia. Sophie has a vibrant outlook on life that is infectious and lends itself with her natural instincts to teach and share knowledge. She has always lived for and with Mother Nature and is at home in a tent on an icy peak as she is in a bivvy on the edge of a mighty river. Sophie is one of the rare folk who has brought her passions in life to her work and it shows through in all aspects of her life. Born in Tasmania, Australia, Ewan spent his childhood growing up on a farm and exploring the vast wilderness of his home state. Ewan has now travelled widely, for work and pleasure, leading expeditions in Vietnam, summiting peaks in Ecuador, undertaking reconnaissance missions for hydropower projects in the wilds of PNG, leading extended sea kayaking trips in the rugged South-West of Tasmania to canyon guiding in the Japanese Alps to name but a few of his adventures. Qualified in off-track navigation, wilderness first aid, small vessel operations, sea kayak guiding and instructing and the design of hydropower projects (extremely useful in tackling technical outdoor scenarios!), Ewan has spent the last few years working living and working onboard commercial tourism vessels in the polar world. Combining these experiences with his background as a global engineering design consultant, Ewan has developed a wide set of management and critical thinking skills that has stood him well in his personal and professional pursuits. An avid photographer and a side-line writer, Ewan enthuses greatly in sharing his passions via action, prose and imagery of both the still and moving variety. And through exploring the marvels of our physical world, Ewan has developed a profound respect for the power of exploring our inner world, our minds, and in doing so, hopes to inspire others to see the connections and take on their own explorations, their own adventures.

15/02/2025

After many years in the game of polar guiding, the time was right for a new challenge. Bringing together a decade plus worth of lived experience, another decade plus of hard earned outdoor adventuring lessons, years of personal development and mindset growth work, countless hours of leadership theory training and many other skills and knowledge felt fitting to honor the responsibility and privilege of leading such a talented team and delivering for many guests what is and will be a life highlight. The breadth of areas an Expedition Leader in Antarctica needs to cover seems to push ever outwards, yet the basics of leadership theory and being a kind and humane being remain at the heart of this role. And whilst our depth of experience and knowledge stood us well, the learning curve followed standard trends!
Grateful for the opportunity Antarctica21
Thank you to some of the most humble, friendly and hardworking people on the planet - the crew of MV Magellan Explorer
Respect, love and gratitude to the wonderful souls that were our team this season
Gratitude to our various EL mentors over the years - you know who you are
And to those who have travelled with us, lets do it again sometime for these are indeed the memories life’s reflections are built on.
Photo credit thanks to .parada &

11/06/2024

Proud to be assisting friend and mentor Huw Kingston to bring his latest adventure to the big screen in Tasmania ⛷🗻🥾🎬

TRAILER - Huw Kingston skis and walks the 700km length of the Australian Alps over 50 days, en route dropping in to ski at each of the dozen Australian mainland…

11/05/2024

What a spectacular light show last night!! We were even seeing the Aurora Australis from our north facing aspect at home!!

07/05/2024

Yet another course! We can’t stop learning!! Working with to expand ourselves and create freedom in our lives

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