Hiring a guide is an excellent way to discover the best skiing, gain confidence and be given invaluable tips. A guide can take you to places in the mountains that you never knew existed and where it would be unwise to explore alone. Your guide also knows where the best snow is and has priority in lift queues.

If you want to explore a large ski area such as Chamonix, hiring a guide and splitting the cost between a few of you is an excellent way to discover the best skiing.  This way you can avoid  wasting time looking at piste maps and working out which lifts will take you where.  Your guide will know where the best snow is and the best route for the weather conditions of the day. Add to this the fact that you will be able to jump the lift queues as well and the advantages are obvious.

Skiing with a guide will improve your skiing, especially if you are stuck on an intermediate plateau. In Chamonix vast new areas then open up to you and the mountains just get bigger........

All your guiding can be booked through our office and at certain peak periods advance booking is strongly recommended.  The fees per day are approximately 300€ per day and 185€ per half day, depending on the itinerary and numbers in the group.  If you would like to contact Jean-Marie Olianti about guiding he can be reached by email on

For further inspiration please have a look at the Compagnie des Guides.