The guiding business depends on people so our students develop and practice people skills with a focus on the guide-client relationship. This includes communications, conflict resolution, story telling, and leadership. Wilderness Guiding is an exciting, fast-growing sector of the tourism industry. There is room for people who are interested in helping others realize their wilderness dreams. The program runs for 90 days, usually six days per week and ten to fifteen hours a day.
Students live on site in a base camp before moving on to smaller mobile units.
The program combines theoretical and practical training, and wherever possible, practical training is performed in the field, simulating guiding in its natural environment. A percentage of the final mark will be based on overall participation. This intensive program is very demanding of time, energy and personal space. While this makes the program more rewarding, it also means working as part of a team under intensive and sometimes adverse conditions. The program is physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding.