Mountaineering expeditions, courses & holidays
Mountaineering Council of Scotland
based: Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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The MCS represents hill walkers, climbers, mountaineers and ski-tourers who live in or who enjoy the mountains of Scotland. They provide a range of course for members covering many aspects of the sport including: winter skills, bouldering and avalanche awareness.
| ski mountaineering/touring | bouldering | climbing/scrambling | mountaineering | winter skills | Scotland |
Plas y Brenin
based: Snowdonia, Wales, UK
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Huge range of scrambling, climbing and mountaineering holidays, courses and expeditions in North Wales and Scotland; including mountaineering skills; winter hillwalking, mountaineering and climbing courses; and avalanche awareness courses.
| climbing/scrambling | mountaineering | winter skills | Wales |
Queenstown Mountain Guides
based: Queenstown, New Zealand
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New Zealand mountaineering and Alpine climbing school with a team of professionally certified IFMGA/UIAGM mountain guides; also offering backcountry ski touring and rock climbing trips. They provide guided climbs of Mt Cook, Mitre Peak, Mt Tasman and Mt Aspiring.
| ski mountaineering/touring | climbing/scrambling | mountaineering | New Zealand |
Alpinism & Ski
based: Wanaka, New Zealand
Mountain challenges in the Southern Alps of New Zealand; offering mountaineering courses, guided mountain ascents and ski and snowbaord touring.
| ski mountaineering/touring | climbing/scrambling | mountaineering | New Zealand |
Amazing Peru
based: Cuczo, Peru
Holidays and escorted tours around Peru and South America including Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands ...
| walk/trek/hike | historical tours | animals/safari | mountaineering | South America | Central America |
Aventuras Patagonicas
based: Wyoming, USA
Aconcagua, Alps, Antarctica, Bolivia, South America and Patagonia expedition guides and mountain climbing outfitters.
| mountaineering | mountain guides | walk/trek/hike | climbing/scrambling | ski mountaineering/touring | expeditions | Alaska | South America |
Swiss Mountain Guide
based: Aigle, Switzerland
Professional mountain guide offering snow sport and mountaineering adventures, hiking, mountain climbing, expeditions and skiing.
| ski mountaineering/touring | ski safari | telemark skiing | expeditions | mountaineering | worldwide |
Tangent Expeditions International
based: Cumbria, UK
The ultimate arctic experience, arctic mountaineering, ski-touring and dog sledding expeditions.
| expeditions | ski mountaineering/touring | nordic ski touring | dog sledging | mountaineering | Greenland | Arctic |
Wild Russia
based: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Adventure travel consulting and expeditions to Baikal, Kamchatka, Mt. Elbrus and others.
| mountaineering | Russia |
Mountaineering, a definition
This section is reserved for strictly mountain climbing and mountaineering expeditions and trips, (Alpinism in Europe) using a reasonably tight definition of the activity. Here at Travel-Quest we define it as the sport or activity of climbing mountains, (generally at higher altitudes than trekking or hiking), almost always requiring the use of specialist technical gear and equipment (ropes, harnesses, ice axes, crampons etc.), with the aim of reaching the summit of the mountain.
We have separate dedicated sections for other related mountain activities that are sometimes also refereed to under the term 'mountaineering', these include ice and rock climbing, scrambling and ski mountaineering.
We also have a separate section for trekking peaks – the very popular high altitude mountain ascents which can be tackled by fit individuals and which generally require no/or limited use of technical gear – mountains such as Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua and Cotopaxi. See the full definition on our trekking peaks page.
FRANCE: Mont Blanc ascent
A challenging mountaineering trip, and perhaps the challenge of a lifetime on the highest Alpine peak, Mont Blanc (4,810 m).
The first three days of this mountaineering trip are spent in Chamonix acclimatising and learning the necessary technical, snow and ice skills on the Glacier du Tour.
Depending on conditions, the trip then spends three days climbing either the Goûter or the more challenging Cosmiques Route, staying at mountain refuges. The final ascent, with one mountain guide for every two climbers, to the summit is on the final day. This trip is offered on various dates between June and September each year.
An alternative destination for mountaineers – the Messner Mountain Museums
When you've some time off from climbing your own peaks here's a place to spend some time – an extraordinary network of six mountain-top museums curated by Reinhold Messner, the Italian mountaineer and extreme climber, often considered to be one of the world's greatest mountaineers, well known for the first Everest ascent without supplemental oxygen.
These six museums, in South Tyrol and Belluno, are designed to showcase man's involvement with mountains, to cover the history of rock climbing and mountaineering, to look at the science and geology of glaciers and mountains, the mythology surrounding them and the history of the peoples who live in them.
CATEGORY DEFINITION FOR TOUR OPERATORS WISHING TO BE LISTED:
The travel-quest mountaineering and mountain climbing section lists expeditions, holidays, tours and vacations that involve mountain climbing in the high peaks. See the definition further up the page for more details.
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