Climb wild routes and peaks in the alps focused on technical movement and fun climbing

The Routes - Rather than climbing a single peak, our goal with Private Alps climbing is to climb for fun! The focus is on routes that will challenge your abilities and push your boundaries. There is no place better than the Alps for access to exposed, technical alpine climbing. Routes we often guide include:

• The Cosmiques Arête Route
• The Entrêves Traverse
• The Lachenal Traverse
• The Rochefort Traverse
• The East Ridge of Pyramid du Tacul
• Aiguille d'Index
• The Crochues Traverse

European Huts & Logistics - No camping required! We'll use lifts, trains, buses and refuges to make the approaches to our climbing objectives as easy as possible. Refuges are equipped with bunk beds, blankets, pillows, and full kitchens and bars to keep us well fed, hydrated and entertained before and after our climbs.

Build Skills. If you're focused on building skills for bigger objectives, the Alps are the perfect place to quickly build the skills you need to build comfort and efficiency in alpine terrain. Whether you need to build rock skills or steep cramponing skills, there are plenty of options to advance your climbing to the next level.

Pre Trip Meeting

Before we start our climbing days, we'll meet in Chamonix, France for a gear check. Our guides will make sure you have the right gear for the objectives and help you:

• Minimize weight
• Optimize your layers based on the weather forecast
• Choose how much food and water to bring

We'll pick a climbing objective for each day. Depending on the objective we will either access the route via lift, train, car or refuge. Most long routes will require access from a refuges.

Accommodations will be a combination of hotels in Chamonix and refuges in the mountains and may change based on weather and appropriate climbing objectives. Hotels that we recommend are:

• Point Isabelle
• La Folie Douce
• Hôtel Vallée Blanche

Here are the skills and fitness you'll need for your course:

• Intermediate Alpine Climbing Experience - Including cramponing and ice axe techniques including self arrest practice, basic rope skills. You should feel comfortable on steep, firm slopes of 40 degrees or more. If you need experience with these skills, sign up for a climb on Mt Shasta, Mt Baker, The Eastern Sierra, or The North Cascades
• Glacier Travel Experience - You should have experience on travelling on crevassed glaciers on a rope team.


• Excellent fitness - Able to spend 12-16 continuous hours outside, moving uphill at over 1,000’ per hour for durations of 1-2 hours between breaks. Participants should be able to hike 12-15 miles, climbing 3,000-6,000 vertical feet throughout the course of the day. People with excellent fitness typically have a strenuous workout 4-6 days per week. Be ready for a difficult day in the mountains!


• Mountaineering Gear - Come prepared with your own gear or rent from us

This is a Private trip, either 2:1 client to guide ratio or 1:1 client to guide ratio.

Here's what's included with your trip:

• IFMGA Certified Mountain Guide
• Ropes & Group Climbing Gear

• Overnight accommodation at Huts / Lodges
• Lift, train or bus tickets for you and your guide, if needed
• Bottled Water, drinks and food beyond dinner and breakfast at Huts
• Sleeping Bag Liner for Huts
• Personal Climbing Gear and Layers
• Guide Gratuities

Refuges (Mountain Huts) really simplify the gear needed for alpine climbing in the Alps. Download our Alps Climbing Gear List Here:

🔽 Download the Mont Blanc 3-Day Gear List

Gear Specific to Climbing in the Alps

• Sleeping Bag Liner