Trekking · Rafting · Ski touring · Since 2011
Go further than the car park.
Guided trips for people who want the ridge, not the viewing platform. Eight guests, one guide, huts and tents we know by name, and a pace set by the slowest person in the group on purpose.
- 8
- Guests per guide, never more
- 4.9★
- From 1,120 guest reviews
- 14
- Trips in four regions
- 4,000
- Guests who came back for another
Small groups, slow mornings, big days.
We run fourteen trips in four regions and we have run most of them for a decade. The huts know us. The rafts are ours. The guides are certified, permanent, and paid whether the trip fills or not, which is why they will tell you honestly when the weather says turn around. Groups are eight because that is how many people one guide can actually look after on a ridge, and because eight people can still fit around one table at the hut.
- Every guide holds an IFMGA, IRF or equivalent certification and a current wilderness first-aid ticket.
- Prices include the huts, the meals on the hill, the transfers and the kit we lend. They exclude flights and nothing else.
- If we cancel, you get everything back. If the weather cancels a day, we have a plan B we have already walked.
Where we are going
The three that fill first. All fourteen, with dates, are on the trips page.
- Deposit 20%, balance eight weeks out
- Full refund if we cancel
- Minimum four guests to run
Dolomites High Route
Hut to hut along the Alta Via, ridge walking with cables where it matters, and a rifugio dinner every night.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Group
- Up to 8
- Difficulty
- Moderate to hard
- Departures
- June to September
In the price
- 6 nights in rifugi, half board
- Guide, via ferrata kit
- Transfers from Bolzano
Not included
- Flights
- Lunches on the hill
from£2,450per person
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Iceland Rafting Week
Three rivers in five days, glacier melt and grade III–IV, camping under a sky that never quite goes dark.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Group
- Up to 8
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Departures
- July and August
In the price
- 4 nights camping, all meals
- Rafts, dry suits, guide
- Transfers from Reykjavík
Not included
- Flights
from£1,980per person
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Patagonia Trek
The Torres del Paine circuit, the whole way round, with two rest days built in for the wind to do what it does.
- Duration
- 12 days
- Group
- Up to 8
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Departures
- November to February
In the price
- 11 nights refugios and camps
- Guide, porters for camp kit
- All meals, park fees, transfers
Not included
- Flights
- Personal kit
from£4,600per person
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Prices are per person sharing. Single supplements are available on the hut trips and are small.
A day on the trail
The guide is up first. Weather checked, route confirmed or changed, porridge on. Nobody is hurried.
Slowest person sets the pace, on purpose. Breaks every hour, longer ones at the views.
Cheese, bread, whatever the hut packed, wherever the guide has been saving for you.
In by four, boots off, a beer on the terrace and dinner at seven with the eight of you around one table.
What it looks like
What they said afterwards
4.9/5
Post-trip surveys
“I am not fit and I was terrified of holding everyone up. Ana set the pace to me from the first hour and nobody minded, because that is the rule. I did the whole High Route. I still cannot quite believe it.”
“Day two the weather turned and Tomás turned us around at the col with a plan B he had clearly walked before. We saw a different valley, ate at a different hut, and nobody got hurt. That is what you are paying for.”
“Three rivers, five days, one raft that we started to think of as ours. Kai is the calmest person I have ever seen in a grade IV rapid.”
“Four of us and Lena, six days on skins. She rewrote the plan every morning off the avalanche bulletin and not once did the new plan feel like the lesser one.”
“The circuit is hard. They do not pretend otherwise, and they do not let the group leave anyone behind. Twelve days later I had eight new friends and no toenails.”
How we keep eight people safe
Certified, permanent guides
Checked every season
IFMGA, IRF or national equivalent, plus a current wilderness first-aid ticket. Guides are employed, not booked per trip, and paid whether it runs or not.
A plan B for every day
Every trip
Every day of every trip has an alternative the guide has already walked. When the weather turns, the group turns with it.
Satellite communicator on every guide
Every day
Two-way, with the office and mountain rescue on the other end. Checked in at the hut every night.
Kit inspected before departure
Before every trip
Rafts, ropes, via ferrata sets and dry suits are logged and inspected to manufacturer schedules and retired early.
Swiftwater rescue on every river
Every river day
Every raft guide is a swiftwater rescue technician, and a safety kayaker runs each grade IV rapid ahead of the rafts.
Ratios that do not bend
Always
Eight guests per guide on foot, six per raft on the water, four per guide on skis. A waiting list does not change them.
Full risk assessments for each trip are sent with your booking confirmation and are available on request before it.
The next departures
The Patagonia Trek runs through the southern summer, twelve days out of Puerto Natales. Next summer's Alps, Dolomites and Iceland dates go live in October.
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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| 1 — Closed | ||||||
| 2 — Closed | 3 — Closed | 4 — Closed | 5 — Closed | 6 — Closed | 7 — Available | 8 — Available |
| 9 — Available | 10 — Available | 11 — Available | 12 — Available | 13 — Available | 14 — Available | 15 — Available |
| 16 — Available | 17 — Available | 18 — Available | 19 — Closed | 20 — Closed | 21 — Closed | 22 — Closed |
| 23 — Closed | 24 — Closed | 25 — Closed | 26 — Closed | 27 — Closed | 28 — Limited | 29 — Limited |
| 30 — Limited |
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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| 1 — Limited | 2 — Limited | 3 — Limited | 4 — Limited | 5 — Limited | 6 — Limited | |
| 7 — Limited | 8 — Limited | 9 — Limited | 10 — Closed | 11 — Closed | 12 — Closed | 13 — Closed |
| 14 — Closed | 15 — Closed | 16 — Closed | 17 — Closed | 18 — Closed | 19 — Booked | 20 — Booked |
| 21 — Booked | 22 — Booked | 23 — Booked | 24 — Booked | 25 — Booked | 26 — Booked | 27 — Booked |
| 28 — Booked | 29 — Booked | 30 — Booked | 31 — Closed |
- Available
- Limited
- Booked
- Closed
Each coloured run is one twelve-day departure, Saturday to Wednesday week.
Is this your kind of trip?
You will love it if
- You want the ridge, not the viewing platform
- You can walk six hours with a pack and enjoy at least four of them
- You like eating with strangers who will not be strangers by Tuesday
- You are fine with weather being the boss
Probably not if
- You want a private guide and your own schedule
- You need a hotel bed every night
- A day being turned around by weather would ruin the trip for you
Not sure about the fitness? Call us. We have talked hundreds of people onto the right trip and a few off the wrong one.
Go further than the car park.
Eight guests per guide, huts and tents we know by name, and a deposit you get back if we cancel. The rest is weather.