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VANCOUVER — New questions are being raised about a wilderness expedition company that allegedly discriminated against a B.C. job applicant because of her Christian background and university education.

A number of experienced outdoor guides working in Canada say that Amaruk Corp., which promotes itself as a 16-year-old company with luxury travel facilities around the world and hundreds of employees, some of them trained in military crafts, is not necessarily what it claims to be.

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“There appears to be one person behind the entire thing, and while he seems like a very Internet-savvy person with a lot of energy, I’m not sure that he has ever led people on a wilderness expedition anywhere,” says one outfitter, who, like other guides, did not want to be identified.

Amaruk presents itself as global enterprise run by Norwegian outdoorsmen with military backgrounds. “The Norse background of most of the guys at the management level means that we are not a Christian organization, and most of us see Christianity as having destroyed our culture,” an Amaruk hiring manager named Olaf Amundsen wrote to Bethany Paquette, who submitted a job application to the outfit last month.