Greg Aiello

Greg Aiello was born to be in the wild Greg grew up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California near Yosemite National Park At an early age he and his older brother Jeff producer of Motion ventured into the High Sierra to explore backpack fish and climb At 21 Greg went to work in the television industry as writerproducer for local broadcast affiliates around the country including WJXT in Jacksonville Florida and KPHO in Phoenix But his love for the mountains brought him back to California where he left the TV business behind to become a professional mountain guide specializing in longduration trips on the famous John Muir Trail which runs from Yosemite to Mt Whitney in the southern range of the Sierra As an accomplished mountaineer Gregs experience in the backcountry fieldcraft is deep In addition to his extensive time in Californias mountains Greg has summited Mt Aconcogua in Argentina climbed in the southern Alps of New Zealand ventured through Australias outback explored the jungles of Costa Rica and spent 10 days on the Galapogos Islands in the Pacific