Mountaineering Courses
Scrambling Skills Course
Scrambling Skills Course Open the door to a world of mountain adventures… Exploring the mountains, beyond the established trails takes skills, practice, and a serious approach. This scrambling skills course is designed to help you take your hiking trips to the mountain tops. Taught by experienced ACMG guides who have spent their careers scaling technical…
Read MoreIntro Mountaineering Course
This long weekend mountaineering course initiates you in to the world of Mountaineering through a development of climbing skill sets. We start with the basics at out local cliffs and progress through the weekend to attempt a high alpine summit. For the neophyte, there’s safety in numbers so this course runs at a 6:1 student to instructor ratio.
Read MoreGlacier Travel + Crevasse Rescue
Learn the necessary skill for glacier travel and crevasse rescue course. We will cover glacier dynamics, glacier assessment, risk factors, glacier travel and companion rescue (crevasse extraction)
Read MoreAdvanced Mountaineering Course
Tantalus Advanced Mountaineering Course Next Level Mountain Climbing Skills Whether you’re looking to summit the local volcanoes of Mount Garibaldi and Mount Baker, or the alpine rock splitters in the Bugaboos – all climbers need the skills to safely travel through these varied landscapes. This course offers the fundamental skills for any aspiring mountaineer. Before…
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Popular Trips
Altus mountain guides is a group of motivated professionals dedicated to providing our clients with outstanding quality in the mountains with safe adventurous trips. From our base in Squamish and Whistler BC we provide you access to the most amazing mountain experiences the West Coast has to offer. Our exciting itineraries showcase the Coast Range but reach beyond to the interior ranges of the Selkirkʼs and Purcellʼs and onto the Rockies. We also offer trips internationally from the historic and classic European Alps to the windswept wilds of Patagonia.