Private Guiding
Bespoke mountain guiding. follow your dreams. Your mountain. Your day. Guided by an Everest summiteer.
A bespoke day in the UK’s finest mountains, planned entirely around you — your first Munro, a classic ridge, or simply moving through wild country with someone who knows it well.
Guiding stripped back to its purest form.
A one-to-one — or small-group — mountain day built around your goals, your pace and your ambitions. There’s no fixed itinerary and no crowd to keep up with. This is different from my Outdoor Challenges, which are about teams. Private guiding is about you — an individual, a couple, a family or a few friends who want a mountain expert to themselves for the day.
You don’t need to be an athlete. You just need to want it.
First-timers
Summit safely and learn from someone who’s climbed the highest mountain on Earth.
Experienced walkers
Step up to scrambling, ridges or winter ground with an expert alongside you.
Munro-baggers
Chase specific summits, remote peaks, or the ones that need a rope.
A personal challenge
A birthday summit, a comeback after illness, a goal that means something — guided with total attention.
The Highlands are home. The UK is the playground.
The Scottish Highlands are my heartland — Glen Coe, Torridon, the Cairngorms, the Mamores and the Skye Cuillin among them. I also guide in the Lake District, Snowdonia (Eryri) and the Peak District. If you have a specific mountain, ridge or route in mind anywhere in the UK, tell me — chances are we can make it happen.
What’s included — and what’s not.
Included
- A fully personalised day, planned around your goals and ability
- Expert guiding from a qualified Mountain Leader and Everest summiteer
- A thorough safety briefing and dynamic risk management throughout
- Route planning, navigation and weather-window advice
- Technical group equipment for scrambling and winter days (helmets, harnesses, ropes as required)
- Action photography of your day, sent to you afterwards
- A detailed kit list and pre-day guidance so you arrive ready
Not included
- Transport to and from the mountains
- Accommodation
- Lunch and personal food
- Personal insurance
- Personal equipment and clothing (full kit list provided)
If your objective needs me to stay away overnight, a small travel & subsistence contribution applies, always agreed with you upfront.
A premium day, led personally by me.
Rates are per day, so the more of you there are, the better the value. Group size runs from 1:1 up to 1:8.
Summer & standard hill days
| Group size | Per day | Per person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | £395 | £395 |
| 2 people | £440 | £220 |
| 3 people | £485 | £162 |
| 4 people | £530 | £133 |
| 5 people | £575 | £115 |
| 6 people | £620 | £103 |
| 7 people | £665 | £95 |
| 8 people | £710 | £89 |
Standard summer hillwalking and Grade 1 scrambling. A day is typically 6–9 hours on the hill.
Good to know
Multi-day adventures: days three onward are discounted 10% — ideal for a Torridon weekend. Securing your day: a 25% deposit confirms your booking; the balance is due 14 days before we meet. Weather: if conditions make your objective unsafe, we’ll adapt or reschedule at no extra cost — your deposit is always protected against weather. Gift a summit: private guiding days make an unforgettable gift — ask about vouchers.
The Founder’s Ascent — your personal summit.
Ready for more than a day out? The individual journey pairs a private guided hill day with an inspirational webinar, a shareable virtual challenge, and a full Mental Toughness assessment with 1:1 coaching — bookended by a measured re-assessment, so you can prove the change, not just feel it.
Explore The Founder’s Ascent →It’s not just a guided day — it’s a duty of care.
Personal advice before you book, an expert leader making the safety calls, careful risk management on the hill, and the right technical equipment provided — the practical support that gets you up the mountain and safely home.
For bigger objectives we’ll also talk you through Global Rescue — a membership you hold for emergency evacuation & repatriation (a rescue service, not insurance), which we recommend alongside your own cover.
See all client benefits →Know someone who’d love a day in the mountains? Introduce them.
The best compliment is an introduction. Join our Refer-a-Friend programme, share your personal link, and when a friend books one of our challenges, the Masterclass or an assessment, they get a warm welcome on their first booking — and you get a thank-you reward once they’re booked in.
Join the Refer-a-Friend programme →Rewards apply to our entry-level products (open-challenge places, the Masterclass and single assessments), one reward per new customer, paid once their first booking clears.
Ready for your mountain day?
Tell me the summit, ridge or challenge you have in mind, and let’s build the day around it.
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