Overview
The Mountain Guide School

The Mountain Guide School provides you with the training, skills, and certifications you need to begin a career as a mountain guide. Training and working in the mountains of Patagonia, Alaska, and New Zealand, you will lay a foundation of strong technical skills such as belaying, building an anchor, or judging the avalanche hazard of a slope. Later, as you make the transition from student to practitioner, you’ll put these skills to use every day, for months on end. In this way, the skills you learn will be so well practised that they will become second nature. Finally, you will make the transition from practitioner to leader, as you are put in charge of other aspiring mountaineers and are responsible for leading them in the mountains.

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The days were challenging, but the rewards were simply amazing. It was great learning so much and putting it into practice. I would definitely recommend the Mountain Guide School to anyone who wants a challenging and incredible experience!

Vicky C, UK

Highlights

Earn an internationally recognised Mountain Guide Certification, as well as a Wilderness First Responder, Leave No Trace Trainer, and Avalanche Level II Qualification; Spend 2 years working as a Mountaineering Guide with companies across the world; Cross the Patagonian Ice Cap; Personally organise an international expedition.

Location

The glaciers, ice caps and mountains of Alaska, Patagonia, and New Zealand.

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Field Conditions

The course is approximately 21 months long, and you will spend 16 of those months in the mountains. You will be living in tents with either other students, guides, or trainee guides. You will be expected to take care of yourself and your team-mates while enduring some of the most challenging conditions on the planet - 100+ kph winds, rain, snow, exhaustion, lack of personal space, and lots and lots of hard work.


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What's Included

Instruction and certification by qualified mountaineering guide trainers, food, local transport and lodging while on the course, group and technical equipment, an in-country support structure. Please enquire for further details.

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