Why Ski With Alpine Guides?

By focusing exclusively on ski touring and ski mountaineering, we've been able to concentrate 20 years of experience and knowledge into what we believe is the best ski touring guiding service available.

All of our our ski guides specialise in ski touring, focussing their work on this particular discipline, as opposed to off piste or other forms of ski guiding. This extra knowledge and expertise allows us to offer high levels of instruction and guiding, delivered by people who are truly dedicated to the sport. We think you'll notice the difference in our team, who are renowned for their enthusiasm, knowedge and skill on the mountain.

All of our itineraries are planned with flexibility in mind, which means choosing meeting points, accommodation and transport to give us as many options as possible. Our guides have a very wide knowledge of different ski touring regions across the Alps, so if the weather and snow conditions work against us, we still have the ability to move to other areas in order to keep a tour running - rather than being tied to a particular place and having to make the best of it. As anyone who's done any amount of ski touring knows, it can be very frustrating skiing in resorts during poor weather, rather than doing what you came to do! Sometimes this means moving considerable distances, but as a result we always manage to go ski touring and give you a good holiday.

We are a small outfit with just a handful of guides, which means we get to know our clients well and build up many lasting friendships over the years. This helps us a lot when planning and tailoring itineraries - often we involve clients in planning our programs, so you get an input into the tours that we run. Because of this, we hit the ground running each week, so you get more value from your guide when you ski with us.

We all know that skiing in a group of a similar standard is far more enjoyable than when people have widely differing abilities. That's why we make a big effort to advise people carefully and ask the right questions, in order to make sure that everyone has the right skills and fitness for each tour. We do this in order that you'll have a good trip and hopefully we'll see you again - but also because it's safer for everyone and makes our guiding work much more enjoyable. The guide who answers your email and gives you advice before the trip, also has to manage the consequenses on the hill - which makes big a difference to the quality of advice you get!

We're very keen on taking photos! All the images you see on the website were taken on our regular ski weeks by guides and clients - ie we haven't paid a professional photographer, or purchased images from a photo library just to dress the site. If you bring along a USB stick, we'll give you plenty of great photos of your trip, or post them out to you later on a CD.