Aleš Kunaver (June 23, 1935 - November 2, 1984) was a Slovenian alpinist and tour guide. Kunaver was the longtime head of the Commission for Expeditions to Foreign Mountaineers of the Alpine Association of Slovenia, member of the mountaineering society of Yugoslavia, representative of Yugoslavia to the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA), and a candidate for President of the Alpines Commission. Kunaver was the first Yugoslav Himalaya film cameraman. He was also the head of six Yugoslav Himalayan expeditions, the driving force behind the Martins Mountaineering School. Ku