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    »  Haute Route trek
    »  Technical alpine climbs
    »  Glacier trekking
    »  4000 metre peaks
    »  Crystal hunting
    »  Via Ferrata

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    »  Mont Blanc
    »  Mont Blanc Granite
    »  Mont Blanc Limestone
    »  South of France Limestone


UIAGM registered Guide de Montagne


ABOUT NEIL HITCHINGS

INTERNATIONAL (IFMGA) MOUNTAIN GUIDE SERVICE

 

I discovered rock climbing at the age of 16 and it quickly became the passion of my life. From rock climbing I graduated to Alpine summits and frozen waterfalls.

I settled in the Chamonix valley in the late 1970s and, among other things, I have worked as a ski-patroller at the Brévent ski area in Chamonix. At that time I was almost certainly the only Englishman to be working as a ski patroller in France. This work involved maintaining security on the marked pistes, evacuating the injured from the pistes and avalanche control. For several years, before deciding to become a guide, I ran my own rope access business.

I have now been working year round as a fully qualified U.I.A.G.M. guide sice 1995. I am a member of the (A.I.G.M.B.) Association Internationale des Guides du Mont Blanc, based here in Chamonix. I have also been instructing and guiding for the Dutch organization E. B. Ski & Alpinisme, also based in the Chamonix valley.