Requirements for Entry

• Assistant Rock Guide Program - must have been successfully completed.
• Experience - you must show that you are capable of guiding clients, demonstrating smooth, confident, efficient movement while climbing, protecting, anchoring, and belaying.
  • On alpine routes involving glaciers, snow, ice, rock, and mixed terrain at 5.10b/c wearing rock shoes and 5.8 in mountain boots
  • On Grade 4 Waterfall Ice
• Personal Climbing Standard - you must demonstrate a personal climbing standard of 5.11 in rock shoes, 5.8 in mountain boots, and Waterfall Ice Grade V.
• Advanced First Aid - an Advanced Wilderness First Aid course with a minimum 80 hours is required. Courses from this partial list of providers have proven adequate in the past. Contact the ACMG if you are uncertain about other programs.
• Avalanche Course- the CAA level 1 plus experience, is a minimum prerequisite for the training level of the Assistant Alpine Guide Program. Experience shows those candidates who enter with the CAA Level 2 have an easier time with the decision making and hazard evaluation tasks.

The above is an absolute minimum. To demonstrate these skills in an exam setting requires a great deal of confidence, ability and fitness. Most candidates enter the program with a much higher personal standard than that at which they will be examined.