CONTACT: info@cdnalpine.com Box 40087 Canmore, AB T1W 3H9 The safety, efficiency, and fun that comes with hiring a professional guide can add greatly to the climbing experience. We are a small and friendly guiding service that prides itself on providing a personalized experience for each and every guest. You will soon find that your guide is also a friend, partner, and mentor in the mountains and you will want to come back over and over again. NEW:Check out CRAG's Blog to see what we have been up to lately! Certification & Experience All of our guides are passionate and extremely skilled climbers. They have spent thousands of days climbing in the mountains of Canada and around the world. Canadian Rockies Alpine Guides have much experience climbing, guiding, and instructing in the Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. Canada has one of the most rigorous guide training programs in the world. The process starts by gaining many years of personal climbing experience at a high level. In order to become certified as an Alpine Guide, a number of very challenging courses and exams must be completed in the areas of rock climbing, ice climbing, mountaineering, avalanche safety, and wilderness first aid. This process lasts a minimum of three years during which time much mentorship and practical experience takes place. When hiring an ACMG guide you can be assured that you are using one of the most skilled and certified guides in the world. Learn more about the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG). Jay Mills - Owner & Head Guide Canadian Rockies Alpine Guides is owned and operated by Jay Mills. Jay is an ACMG Alpine Guide and has been guiding and instructing climbing in the Rockies for more than a decade. His specialty is mentoring his guests through the process of learning to mountain climb. His guests always find him willing to take the extra time required to explain what is happening and even to teach the art of leading if desired. Jay has also climbed a number of extreme routes in the Rockies, Alaska, and elsewhere, including nearly 100 first ascents of rock climbs up to 5.12, ice climbs up to WI6 M7, and alpine routes of all types. Samples of his top climbing achievements include: Mt. Alberta - North Face (VI 5.10+, A0) First single push ascent of Lowe/Glidden Route. Mt. Alberta story... Mt. Hunter - Moonflower Buttress (VI M6 WI5 A0) Alaska. To top of buttress. Mt. Hunter - Deprivation (VI M7 WI5) with new variation. To summit. Single 45 hour push, round trip. Alaska climbing stories... Mt. Robson - Emperor Ridge (V 5.7) Single 25 hour push, car to summit. Mt. Kitchener - Grand Central Couloir (V 5.9 W5) One day single push. Mt. Andromeda - Andromeda Strain (V 5.9+ W5) Mt. Bryce - North Face (IV 5.7) Solo, one day single push. Mt. Temple - North Face Greenwood/Jones (V 5.9) Mt. Aconcogua - Polish Glacier Direct Solo. World's highest non-himalayan peak. Big Corona (V WI5+R, M7) - Ice climb, First Ascent. Big Corona first ascent story... Polar Circus (V, WI5, 700m) - Solo, speed ascent in under 3 hours round trip. Linked with Murchison Falls. Polar Circus/Murchison solo linkup story... Mt. Cline - East Face (IV 5.10) - First Ascent.