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Chamonix Mountain Guides
Alpine Adventures is a young dynamic and highly motivated company directed by Dave Etherington an IFMGA guide. We offer you good-value and professionally organised guided holidays and courses in the French, Swiss and Italian Alps. Our specialist alpine mountaineering, off-piste skiing, ski touring, and rock climbing holidays are all run by English speaking IFMGA high mountain guides, holding the highest internationally recognised qualification for mountain and ski guiding.
Our aim is to provide an adventure holiday that is safe, enjoyable and suits your level of experience and fitness. All our adventure holidays have been carefully designed to ensure that you will always be adventuring with like-minded people.
Please take a look around our web-site, its designed to facilitate easy access to the information you require. If you need more information or have specific questions then do e-mail or telephone Dave or Leonie in the office. If we are not in the office we're out enjoying ourselves in the mountains and will get back to you as soon as we can!
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Dave, Leonie Etherington
Alpine Adventures
138 Route du Bois - Rond
74310 Les Houches
France
Telephone:
For callers from outside France 0033 4 50 54 73 44
For callers from within France 04 50 54 73 44
e-mail info@alpineadventures.co.uk
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Dave Etherington - Mountain Guide
I started climbing in 1982 in the local quarries in Lancashire, with regular trips to the Lake District, North Wales and Scotland. I made my first trip to the alps in 1985 and have climbed here ever since. I have made 5 trips to the Himalaya on climbing expeditions and also worked a a climbing guide out there.
I qualified as a British Mountain Guide in 1994. I spent 8 years instructing and guiding at Glenmore Lodge, the Scottish National Mountaineering Training Centre.
I have lived in the Chamonix valley since 1999 with my family and work throughout the European Alps summer and winter, climbing and skiing.
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Simon Abrahams - Mountain Guide
I have been climbing and mountaineering in the UK and around the world for the last 25 years and have worked full time in the mountains since 1987. I live in Chamonix in the French Alps and am therefore ideally situated for all your Alpine and Worldwide Guiding requirements
I have worked and climbed extensively all over the UK, the European Alps and in the greater ranges of North America, South America and the polar regions, particularly Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica. I’ve had some great adventures, made good friends and achieved many fantastic ascents along the way, sometimes first ascents and always in an alpine style.
Another part of my role as a Mountain Guide has seen me working and advising on many film projects around the world, including, Batman - 'Batman Begins', James Bond - 'Die Another Day', IMAX - 'Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure' and BBC/KEO Productions - 'Blizzard, Race to the Pole'.
In Winter, my focus turns to skiing and snowboarding. I have pursued both for the last 18 years and have taken my boards with me wherever I have gone, whether it has been making first snowboard descents in Antarctica, working on Ski Patrol in Canada or skiing in my own backyard, here in Chamonix.
I have a passion for the mountainous areas of the world and also for sharing them with others. My years of dedication, knowledge and experience can help make your dreams a reality. I hope to see you soon.
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Stuart Macdonald - Mountain Guide
I first visited the Alps at the age of 17 and immediately fell in love with the mountains. Since then I have taken every opportunity to climb and in 2003 I quit my career in the British Army to spend more time in the mountains. Over the years I have climbed around the world from the frozen mountains of the Antarctic to the giants of the Himalayas and quite a few places in between.
Achievements have included summitting Mount Everest, making first ascents on South Georgia, and climbing numerous Alpine test-pieces including the North Faces of the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses. Equally at home on rock, ice, mixed or on skis, I just enjoy being in the mountains. I am based in Chamonix in the French Alps and hope I can share my passion for the mountains with you.
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Willie Todd - Mountain Guide
Mountain guide Willie Todd has been climbing and skiing in the Alps for more than 20 years, and now lives with his family in the Chamonix valley. Equally at home on skis, on rock and ice or flying his paraglider, he has done many new climbs on rock and ice and has worked both at Glenmore Lodge in Scotland and for the Scottish Avalanche Information Service.
During the summer Willie spends his time taking clients up the alpine peaks and running training courses for beginner alpinists. In the winter, although he continues to climb, his work becomes more ski based, taking groups of skiers off-piste skiing and ski-touring.
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Steve Hartland - Mountain Guide
I am a British Mountain guide with many years Alpine experience. Available year round for: Alpine mountaineering, Ice climbing, Ski-touring - introductory / multi-day trips, Off piste - ski the Vallee Blanche.
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Steve Boydon - Mountain Guide
Climbing and skiing for 25 years. Extensively around Europe from the Costa Blanca in Spain through to Scotland. Australia, USA, Alaska and Russia.Qualified mountain guide since 1990, living in Chamonix for the last five years.
Enjoys all aspects of mountaineering from easy day ascents of rock or ice, to multi day trips such as the Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt.
A weakness for Digestive biscuits, in fact used to be known as McVitie Man by his friends.
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