Next Level your Mountain Skills

Get the knowledge and confidence to move in the mountains well. Learn to climb gearm alpine, do rock rescure & avalanche safety.

Choose The Mountain Skill You Want To Learn

Rock Climbing

Multi-pitch Gear & Trad Climbing Courses

Banff Multi Pitch Rock

Banff Multi Pitch Rock

Climb a classic Banff multi pitch rock route!

Your guide will teach you to take rock climbing to the next level with the best multi pitch climbing techniques. You will expand your climbing skills while achieving something great – a classic route in Banff you can talk about forever!

No experience required
Cost: 1 Person $593
2 People $323 each

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Multi Pitch Pro Weekends

Multi Pitch Pro Weekends

Smooth systems make multi pitch climbing manageable and fun! Take your team’s safety seriously by forming smooth skills that will set you up for success.

Touching on a range of safety systems and climbing skills, you will sharpen your skills and expand your experience so that you can complete multi pitch climbs with confidence.

Rock safe or equivalent.
COST: $427 PER PERSON

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Spring Into Rock

Spring Into Rock

Launch your rock climbing season with this value packed three in one climbing course.

Set yourself up for success this spring. We will complete three courses in four days, along with getting in a ton of climbing experience. Check the boxes on Rock Safe, Lead Rock, and Trad Leader!

Rock Leader and 10+ days of outdoor lead climbing experience
COST: $863 PER PERSON

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Trad Lead Weekends

Trad Lead Weekends

Make the jump from clipping bolts to placing gear! Take your safety seriously by forming smooth skills that will set you up to achieve success.

TThis two day course uses specific learning progression to increase your confidence and comfort. We are excited to empower you to interact with the technically demanding art of leading on traditional climbing equipment.

Rock Leader and 10+ days of outdoor lead climbing
COST: $485 PER PERSON

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Alpine Climbing Courses & Camps

Try Alpine Climbing

Try Alpine Climbing

If you enjoy hiking and scrambling, come try alpine climbing. It might be for you!

Join us for an unforgettable experience of alpine climbing a technical mountain.. This fun, thrilling experience lets you explore places that are inaccessible to most travellers.

Avid hiker, some rope skills from rock climbing are helpful.
COST: $322 PER PERSON

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Heli-Glacier Adventure

Heli-Glacier Adventure

This amazing helicopter and alpine travel trip takes you to untouched places!

Alpine climbing is the most rewarding and exciting way to move in the mountains. This trip allows you the thrill of Alpine climbing without the hard work to get there. Experience the Rocky Mountain alpine high places.

No experience required
COST: $599 PER PERSON

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Cline Tairns Heli-Alpine Camp

Cline Tairns Heli-Alpine Camp

Helicopter access! All inclusive alpine climbing from high camp! These are some of the most amazing climbing adventures.

Immerse yourself in the experience of camping in high places and climbing routes that would be otherwise out of reach.

Basic alpine skills, comfort with backpacking and tent sleeping
Cost: $1799 Per Person

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Multi Day Alpine Climbing Trips

Multi Day Alpine Climbing Trips

Hut based adventures or alpine climbing from a high camp, these are some of the most amazing climbing adventures

Immerse yourself in the experience of camping in high places and climbing routes that would be otherwise out of reach./p>

Alpine Skills or Try Alpine Climbing
COST: $459 PER PERSON

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Alpine Skills Weekends

Alpine Skills Weekends

Start alpine climbing with a solid foundation! Alpine climbing is fun, but it can be a bit overwhelming at times.

Begin learning to read terrain, manage multiple overlapping risk factors, move in snow and understand glacier travel. Take your team’s safety seriously by forming smooth skills so that you can achieve success

Rock Safe or Equivalent
COST: $497 PER PERSON

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Alpine Leadership Week

Alpine Leadership Week

Join us for an unforgettable week of alpine leadership and skill development.

Refine the skills and tools required to make decisions and climb in the dynamic alpine environment. You should leave this course feeling empowered to confidently begin alpine climbing independently.

Alpine Skills, Rock Safe, or equivalent experience
COST: $1161 PER PERSON

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Classic Canadian Rockies 11,000ers

Classic Canadian Rockies 11,000ers

Tackle one of the famous Rocky Mountain 11,000 foot peaks.

Alpine climbing is the most rewarding and exciting way to move in the mountains. We incorporate all mountain disciplines to fluidly summit one of the highly sought after Canadian Rockies 11,000 ers.

No experience required for 2 day bookings, Alpine Skills or Try Alpine Climbing for 1 day bookings

COST: $322 PER PERSON

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Rock Safe Rescue Courses

Rock Safe Weekends

Rock Safe Weekends

Your safety doesn’t happen by accident.

Our highly trained guides will sharpen and expand your safety skills so that you and your climbing team can confidently manage the range of challenging scenarios you might find yourself in.

Lead Rock or Equivalent
COST: $427 PER PERSON

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Rock Safe Pro Weekends

Rock Safe Pro Weekends

Take your multi pitch safety skills to the next level, and sharpen your ability to handle complex incidents while in a challenging environment.

Our highly trained guides will sharpen and expand your safety skills so that you and your climbing team can together manage the range of scenarios you might find yourself in while multi pitch climbing.

Rock safe or equivalent.
COST: $427 PER PERSON

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Multi Pitch Pro Weekends

Multi Pitch Pro Weekends

Smooth systems make multi pitch climbing manageable and fun! Take your team’s safety seriously by forming smooth skills that will set you up for success.

Touching on a range of safety systems and climbing skills, you will sharpen your skills and expand your experience so that you can complete multi pitch climbs with confidence.

Rock safe or equivalent.
COST: $427 PER PERSON

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Spring Into Rock

Spring Into Rock

Launch your rock climbing season with this value packed three in one climbing course.

Set yourself up for success this spring. We will complete three courses in four days, along with getting in a ton of climbing experience. Check the boxes on Rock Safe, Lead Rock, and Trad Leader!

Rock Leader and 10+ days of outdoor lead climbing experience
COST: $863 PER PERSON

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Trad Lead Weekends

Trad Lead Weekends

Make the jump from clipping bolts to placing gear! Take your safety seriously by forming smooth skills that will set you up to achieve success.

TThis two day course uses specific learning progression to increase your confidence and comfort. We are excited to empower you to interact with the technically demanding art of leading on traditional climbing equipment.

Rock Leader and 10+ days of outdoor lead climbing
COST: $485 PER PERSON

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Alpine Skills Weekends

Alpine Skills Weekends

Start alpine climbing with a solid foundation! Alpine climbing is fun, but it can be a bit overwhelming at times.

Begin learning to read terrain, manage multiple overlapping risk factors, move in snow and understand glacier travel. Take your team’s safety seriously by forming smooth skills so that you can achieve success

Rock Safe or Equivalent
COST: $497 PER PERSON

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Alpine Leadership Week

Alpine Leadership Week

Join us for an unforgettable week of alpine leadership and skill development.

Refine the skills and tools required to make decisions and climb in the dynamic alpine environment. You should leave this course feeling empowered to confidently begin alpine climbing independently.

Alpine Skills, Rock Safe, or equivalent experience
COST: $1161 PER PERSON

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Ice Climbing Skills

Try Ice Weekend

Try Ice Weekend

Canada has the best ice climbing in the world! Come climb frozen waterfalls with us!

This two day adventure starts when you meet your guide and get your equipment. From there we will travel to our climbing site. The two day tour allows us to focus on coaching you in technical skills like footwork, balance, and fluid movement. It also gives you more extended time for climbing while visiting a different location each day.

No Experience Required.
COST: $485 PER PERSON

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Lead Ice

Lead Ice

Unlock your potential for winter adventure. Sharpen the specific skills required to lead climb while climbing a frozen waterfall.

Your guide will teach you how to expand your ice climbing skills to the next level and work toward lead climbing progression with progression.

Try Ice or 5 days of ice climbing experience.
COST: $215 PER PERSON

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Avalanche Safety Skills

AST 1 Weekend

AST 1 Weekend

This course will give you confidence in understanding and managing avalanche risk.

Whether you ski, snowshoe, splitboard, or ice climb, avalanche safety training is for you. Learn how to manage the terrain and snowpack you choose to play in.

No Experience Required.
COST: $302 PER PERSON

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Companion Rescue

Companion Rescue

This one-day companion rescue course is designed for individuals who are looking to review and then build upon the rescue skills taught in AST 1

We will update you on the latest techniques for searching, probing, and shovelling. You will then spend the day learning how to solve multiple burials, close proximity burials, and deep burial scenarios.

AST 1 Prerequisite
COST: $204 PER PERSON

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Learn to Lead climb rock or Ice. Learn rock rescue to climb safer. Head up to the Alpine and learn about the dynamic Alberta Rocky Mountains.

The Alberta Rockies are made for adventuring. We want to help you next level your mountain skills, whether you are just learning to lead or are an experienced alpinist and want to brush up on rescue skills, we want to share summer in the mountains with you!   

Built upon the belief that adventure can be transformational, let Girth Hitch Guiding take you on a life-affirming journey through the ancient mountains of the Alberta’s Canadian Rockies. Based out of  Nordegg, Alberta we thrive on introducing outdoor enthusiasts – from beginners to experts – to our beautiful mountains.

Need Help?

We have a progression decision tree on our Chose Your Adventure page.

Would you like help planning your custom Guided Adventure? We’d love to be a part of your Mountain trip!