Mountain Guide Course

NNMGA Mountain Guide Course Introduction

Mountain guide exam could consist of one module in winter season, giving a total of 15 training days.

This proposed plan does not include the approach or the return. The dates of the courses are to be reconfirmed internally while, in the main, respecting the accepted dates.

Progressiveness in the training programme will allow the trainees to complete their mountain guide exam with the mountaineering module last; close to the reality of the profession.


Preliminaries for Mountain Guide Coruse:

The trainee completes his/her Aspirant Guide Course with all three components. Successful trainees will return two years later in February to pass his Mountain Guide exam.

Before enroll in Mountain Guide Course The Aspirant Guide should exercise on :

2 trekking peak ascents (NMA list)

1 expedition style ascent with at least two camps in altitude

8 days of ascents (without clients) on all type of terrain


Guide Exam schedule For Aspirant Guide 2011

Date:                     1/15 Feb 2013

Course length:  15 days

Rest day:             1 day every week

Location:         alpine peak bellow 6000m with glacier, snow, ice, rock and mixed route


Periodic Refreshment Training

Periodic refreshment training consist of single schedule on 4 training days.

NNMGA mountain guides must have to attain the periodic refreshment training within every three years cycle to refresh their technical skills and to adopt new techniques and regulation for Mountaineering Guiding arena.  

This is the mandatory provision for all NNMGA guides. Guides who do not attain the periodic refreshment training, his/her license should be confiscated.

 Periodic Refreshment Training Schedule

Guides 2009:

Date:                     9/12 March 2012

Duration:             4 days

Location:             Kathmandu/Hatiban

 

Guides 2010:

Date:                     9/12 March 2013

Duration:             4 days

Location:             Kathmandu/Hatiban


Guides 2011:

Date:                     9/12 March 2014

Duration:             4 days

Location:             Kathmandu/Hatiban