After "trying out" a number of guides, she has been working with Metin Emlek since 2012. Metin is a licensed guide with 20+ years of experience guiding on Mount Ararat. He speaks Kurdish, English, and some Farsi. He is happily married with two beautiful children. Amy and Metin work with a select group of local drivers, cooks, porters, and hotels to organize tours.

Amy L Beam is also a human rights activist and has advocated for and helped the Yezidis, a non-Muslim minority who were displaced from Shingal, northern Iraq, when the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists attacked their homeland in August 2014. She has helped many of the women and girls who were enslaved and raped by ISIS. She is the author of "The Last Yezidi Genocide," 2018, 400 pages. You may follow her activism work on her public FaceBook.

A number of people in Dogubayazit, Turkey, have misrepresented themselves to be Mount Ararat Trek. Please be aware that they are not in any way part of Mount Ararat Trek business. The only person who does reservations for Mount Ararat Trek is Amy Beam. Be careful when choosing who to organize your tour.