IFMGA Mountain Guide
This is the highest internationally recognised qualification for instruction
and guiding in rock and ice climbing, mountaineering and off-piste skiing
and ski touring with the coveted IFMGA carnet.
Guides throughout the world can be recognised by the same distinctive badge.
This badge is your guarantee of their professional training and competence
in all aspects of mountaineering and client care.
International Ski Guide [more]
British Association of Mountain Guides
With high entry requirements, tough assessments, and an apprenticeship
(aspirancy) over a period of three years, only a handful of individuals
qualify as a British Mountain Guide each year. The British Association of
Mountain Guides (BMG) is a member of the International Federation of Mountain
Guides Associations (IFMGA).
This membership, shared at present with guides from sixteen other countries,
gives British Guides absolute equivalence with Guides in Alpine countries
and throughout the world. The award of the International Guides Carnet demands
the highest standards of skill and professionalism in all aspects of mountaineering.
[www.bmg.org.uk]
Mountain Instructors Certificate- UK Mountaineering
The MIC is the highest qualification for the instruction of mountaineering,
both summer and winter, in the United Kingdom. The summer part of this award,
the MIA, is a pre-requirement of the MIC. In my work at Plas
y Brenin...[more]
Alpine Mountaineering
From the first inquisitive forays as a teenager, to climbing the Walker
spur in a day, Alpine climbing has been a rewarding apprenticeship.
Throughout has been a sense of discovery, adventure, and the camaraderie
of the rope. To share this excitement with others, as an Alpine guide, is
a dream come true.
The Alps offer a tremendous variety of adventures. There are big sweeps
of Granite in the Bregaglia; the spiky towers of the Chamonix Aiguilles,
and impressive limestone walls in the Oberland and Dolomites.
These are just some of the amazing rockaneering adventures. Even the smallest
and most straightforward North faces provide sunrises charged with anticipation.
The impressive icy sweeps of the Grandes Courses give way to cold bivvys
and weary (but contented) sunsets, shared with good friends.
There is something for everyone.
