They naturally gravitate towards companies that offer guided expeditions enabling them to realise their dream in a neat, single-fee package: these include Jagged Globe (www.jaggedglobe.com), which offers British mountaineering guides.

His passion was the Tatra mountains, therefore, he moved to Zakopane and worked as a mountaineering guide.

Norman Clyde served as a mountaineering guide, and Ansel Adams was the official photographer (on later trips, he would also serve as assistant manager and director of evening entertainment).

In this period he earned his living writing computer programs and acting as a mountaineering guide.

On Sunday, at about midnight, the rebels attacked in Solukhumbu district, home to Nepal's largest population of Sherpas, famous as mountaineering guides.

One of the deaths this year was that of an experienced member of a rescue team; another was a mountaineering guide from Washington State.

In recent years, La Grave has also become a popular location for ice climbing (thanks in part to British mountaineering guide, Terry Taylor - now retired).

It was here that we said goodbye to our mountaineering guide, Des Marshall.

Its leader, Eric R. Simonson, was a mountaineering guide who had climbed Everest.

When mountaineering, basic mountaineering instruction is given by our mountaineering guides.