Alpine guides: La Thuile,

Roberto Bonin
Ph. 0165 257378 -Mob. 347.9638346
bonin.roberto@gmail.com
www.mountainguidesaosta.com
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English

Gianni Carbone
Port. 347.4350182 - 340.4961634
carbogia@alice.it info@giannicarbone.com
www.guidealpinemontebianco.it
www.mountainguidemontblanc.com
www.giannicarbone.com
Main areas of operation: Courmayeur
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English

Gianluca Ippolito
Mob. 349.6908140
glcppl@gmail.com
www.mountain-action.it
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English

Alberto Miele
Ph. +39 338.2722764
alberto@zerovertigo.com
www.zerovertigo.com
Main areas of operation: La Thuile, Mont Blanc

Felicino Nicolino
Mob.328.9023510
nicolinofelix@libero.it
Main areas of operation: Monte Rosa
Spoken languages: Italian, French

Stefano Pivot
Mob. 349.5525119
stefano.pivot@gmail.com
www.mountainguidesaosta.com
Main areas of operation: Aosta Valley
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English

Other than cultural and historical itineraries of great interest, Aosta city is an optimum starting point for fantastic trips in the surrounding mountains. In winter, a two-seater cable-car leaving from the city centre allows easy access to the Pila ski slopes only a few minutes away where incredible ski itineraries and ski excursions leave from. Short car trips will allow access to some small lateral valleys situated around the Aosta plain where splendid Alpine ski trips across uninhabited and desolate landscape depart from that even in deep winter there is plenty of dry snow .
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English

Peakshunter is an association of alpine mountain guides.

Spoken languages: Italian, French, English.
Main areas of operation: all Aosta Valley, Monte Bianco, Gran Paradiso, Cervino, Monte Rosa.

The last association to be founded, a member of the Unione Valdostana Guide di Alta Montagna.
The aim of “Compagnie” is to offer classic high-mountain tours, Ice, Climbing, High-mountain and off-piste skiing, as well as teaching the former, and in particular new pursuits connected with the mountains such as Canyoning and Acrobranche.

Since July 1865, when Monte Cervino was claimed by Jean Antoine Carrel, Jean Baptiste Bich, Jean Augustin Meynet and Amé Gorret, the Cervino guides offer their experience from the Alps and other ranges to all those who wish to learn mountaineeering and adventure.
The climbing of the Matterhorn together with an Alpine guide of the society is an absolute added value and, in addition, there will be a sure overnight and particular dinner in the Carrel hut. The alpinist will live the ascent while discovering the history of the conquest of this mountain unique in the world.
In Summer the Cervino Alpine guide association proposes and organises alpine excursion of various difficulty levels, trek tours, daily hikes, canyoning, ferrate and climbing activities on cliffs.
In Winter the association proposes Freeride hikes both on skis and snowboard, heliski, ski-tourism, ice waterfalls and snowshoes tours.

Spoken languages: Italian, French, English, German, Spanish

As Wild as You is a sports association that offers various sports activities both in Summer and in Winter,  from mountain biking to hiking and mountaineering up to 4,000 m. It is made up of Alpine Guides able to work in Italian, French and English, and is based in Champoluc, Val d'Ayas. 

From Antagnod, the capital of the high valley in one of the most beautiful and bright locations in the entire Aosta Valley, your eyes travel along the long sparkling mountain chain overlooked by Monte Rosa by over 4600 metres.
From Champoluc, the cable cars allow us to reach considerable heights where amazing off-piste ski itineraries and ski excursions depart from while in springtime high-altitude shelters such as Mezzalama and the Mantova allow skiers and mountaineers to reach the Monte Rosa summit.
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English, German (written)

The Gran Paradiso park and mountain, the first of Italy’s “four thousanders”, have long since been popular with visitors and mountaineers, but it is only in the last few years that enthusiasts from all over Europe have started coming to Cogne in winter to climb the valley’s beautiful frozen waterfalls with the piolet-traction technique.
Ideas:
Mountaineering, trekking and trip round the Gran Paradiso, guided trips over rock, ice or mixed terrain, guided trips on the glaciers, canyoning,
courses or lessons to learn rock climbing, ice climbing and dry tooling, cramponnage/ruisseling school - trips with crampons on frozen waterfalls, activities for kids, games with ropes,
winter trips on snow shoes, sping or winter ski mountaineering trips (also on the peak of the Gran Paradiso), offe-piste, descents down theVallée Blanche.
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English, Spanish, German

The Courmayeur Alpine guides association, free Alpine guides association, was founded in 1850 as a non-operant company and the second guides association to be founded in the world.

At the beginning the guides accompanied the clients in the surrounding areas crossing the Alpine foothills, but with the second climb from the Italian side from Monte Bianco in1863, the Courmayeur guides expanded their operations considerably from 1870 onwards in a series of new climbs. At the beginning of 1900 the first expeditions outside Europe were organised
This was the great era of Arctic, Antarctic and Himalayan expeditions, and mountaineering was growing in popularity.
The Alpine guide’s work is no longer limited to guiding mountaineers in the summer but also other pursuits in the winter. The association also organises rock and ice climbing other than the traditional pursuits. The majority of winter work is high-mountain skiing such as at the Vallée Blanche, the Toula and the Haute Route. For a few years there have been beginner climbing lessons integrated with theory on Alpine flora and fauna The association manages its operations at Rifugio Monzino (shelter) and the Museo Alpino Duca degli Abruzzi (Abruzzi Alps museum).

The Courmayeur Alpine guides association offers mountaineers and skiiers a whole range of quality services, constantly updating their practices

The prestigious Alpine guides association offers: snow-shoe walks, ice-falls, winter and summer mountaineering, high-mountain and off-piste skiing, heliski, indoor climbing, collective climbs, classic climbs, canyoning and hiking.

Spoken languages: Italian, French, English

The Alpine Guides Society of  Gressoney was created in 1963.
It owns the Città di Mantova Mountain Hut that is located at 3.498 metres on the Monte Rosa Glacier at Garstelet and it is the point to start some of the most famous ascent on the glacier, like the capanna Margherita, the Piramide Vincent, the Lyskamm, the Dufour, and to go towards Zermatt or the Sella Mountain Hut. The alpine guides will accompany you in all the activities linked with mountains: from hikes to classic alpinism, from showshoeing to heliskiing, from climbing to ski-tourism.

Different are the activities and courses that will allow everybody to discover the charming world of mountains.

During Summer: private or group ascent to the Mont Rosa, élite alpinism, activities for kids and youth, trekking, via ferrata, climbing, in Winter freeride and off-piste skiing, heliskiing, snowshoeing, ski-tourism, ice waterfalls, self-rescue course

Spoken languages: Italian, French, English, German

Guidemonterosa s.r.l. was set up in 1995 by a number of local Alpine Guides, who believed in the potential for development of winter mountain tourism in their area.
The activities practiced during the winter are: Freeride, heliskiing , ski mountaineering, ice climbing, snow shoe trips.
The programmes on offer for the summer are: Mountaineering on Monte Rosa, Mont Blanc, in Switzerland, on the Matterhorn and the Dent d’Herens, trekking on the glaciers of Monte Rosa, climbing and travel climbing, vie ferrate.
The full programmes can be seen at www.guidemonterosa.com

Spoken languages: Italian, French, German, Spanish

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Main areas of operation: Mont Blanc, Mont Rose, Grand Paradis, Matterhorn areas.
Spoken languages: Italian, French, English.

The Rutor-La Thuile Alpine guides association offers:

During the winter season:
heliski, off-piste skiing areas with ski-lift, Vallée Blanche, high-mountain skiing on the main Aosta Valley routes. Other pursuits to be sampled are indoor climbing, the ice-falls climb and the night-time walks with snow-shoes.

During the summer season:
excursion itineraries in evocative Alpine and mountain scenery, on easy routes and paths, climbs toward Alpine shelters and lakes in the Aosta Valley. There are climbs to the main summits in our region, high-mountain tours on ice and rock, spending the night in high-altitude shelter, climbs to the ‘4000’ in the Valley. Glacier walking, rock climbing and climbing in the equipped gym, iron roads, indoor climbing. There is mountaineering school with teaching of mountaineering techniques, in oder to learn about the mountains safely.

Spoken languages: Italian, French, English

The Valgrisenche Guide Society was founded in 1986 on the initiative of some young mountaineers in the valley with the encouragement of Perret Luigi Guida Emerita.

The guides carry out the activity in the mountains of the Aosta Valley and the whole world. The first Valdostan ascent to K2 by Marco Camandona and numerous other expeditions to Pakistan, Himalayas, South America, Alaska, Caucasus, Africa and Uzbekistan, as well as the daily activities in the Alps are a wealth of experiences that allow the Guides of Valgrisenche to give unforgettable experiences.

Languages spoken: Italian, French, English

The Gran San Bernardo, Ollomont and Valpelline valleys, in the middle of the one of the most important mountain ranges in Europe, offers a fairy-tale winter, with no over-crowding. A week of skiing through fairy-tale forests and highwayman’s passes connecting Cervino with Mont Blanc and passing through the Grand Combin and Mont Velan. In one weekend you can ski following in the tracks of the Lynx, between untamed mountains full of charm, tasting the great desolation of enchanting scenery. Ice waterfalls, off-piste skiing, easy hills, where snow shoes can replace skis and steeper slopes where skiing mixes with mountaineering. Everything has an unmistakable flavour of untouched nature rich with history During summer, the Alpine guides will bring you on evocative excursions, in the untouched beauty of unique and untamed mountains, telling you the history and legends.
Spoken languages: Italian, English

The Gran Paradiso Alpine Guides Society is made up of professionals able to make known every aspect of this infinite passion for the mountains. The company, based in Valsavarenche, is organized to discover the beauty of the Aosta Valley mountains and beyond. The Alpine Guides organize daily, in summer and winter, many activities, among which it is a must remember the ascent and climb of the Gran Paradiso (4,061 meters), one of the most majestic 4,000 of the Alps.

Languages spoken: Italian, French, English, German