The professional mountain guides of the Méribel Mountain Guide Office offer you an original day to get to understand the snow-covered coat, the avalanche mechanism and the related rescue techniques.
If you like mountains in the winter in general and freeriding in particular, this offer is made for you !
This training day with one of our mountain guides will help you ski more safely when you’re out there on your own.
The program:
We will ski together in the Meribel valley, and explain how to ski safely in a group while going off piste. You will be introduced to the safety pack (beacon-shovel-probe), its use, but also to the structure of the snow coat through a snow profile analysis.
General information :
Session from 9am to 4 pm.
Meeting at 9amin front of the “Saulire Express” lift at Meribel Chaudanne.
Gear: bring your ski gear, your security pack if you have one, a 30L backpack. Lunch will be either picnic or restaurant, to be determined with your guide.
Good slopes, good food: a good programme… Why not for me too?
Ski off-piste + 3 Valleys = 2 reasons to explore this exceptional resort!
With the Meribel guides, off-piste touring, and the classic routes of Bellevilles, Meribel or Courchevel.
After a great morning spent skiing secret slopes where we leave our tracks far from everything, a delicious meal, in a carefully chosen venue, will reinvigorate us. The return to Meribel in the afternoon will be far off the beaten track.
The purest skiing pleasure awaits us! And, if you are a little apprehensive, we can help you to adapt and improve to overcome this feeling.
We might walk for half an hour (more or less!) to discover a more remote valley where the skiing is better.
In Practice: This ski off-piste day is offered to all skiers of class 3 ability and above with wider skis adapted to powder. Before setting off, your guide will provide the necessary safety gear: the indispensable trio of “shovel, probe and avalanche beacon”. You should bring a small backpack with a bottle of water and snacks. We can lend you a backpack if needed.
I dream of putting on skins to get off the beaten path !
Yes, escaping from the daily routine is possible!
For a long time alpine skiing has been the king of mountain winter sports. But, we must admit, ski touring is the best method for reaching the most isolated spots, and the most secret. You will be quickly seduced by the spirit of “discovery”, by the savage beauty of the wild spaces, which it allows us to access. Certainly, ski touring requires “effort” and “stretching your limits” but it is well rewarded with untracked skiing, a generous quota of unspoilt nature and the strong emotions of discovering new places.
Obviously, freedom should not mean the absence of safety!
Whenever you say “natural environment” there is some risk involved. A certain amount of knowledge is required, and we would go even further and say that some “familiarity” with the surroundings are needed to judge the level of risk on a given route. The practice of ski touring requires, among other skills, a minimum of technique in order to reach the summits safely. If you have any doubt in your abilities, hiring a mountain guide is simply the best solution.
Our valley, a vast area, is also spectacular and it is perfectly adapted to this sport: It is simply waiting to be discovered… by you!
Price indicated for 1 to 4 people, for half day climbing on Champagny artificial ice tower.
We limit our groups to 4 people maximum for safety reasons. Beyond a second guide will be necessary.
If climbing on natural icefall (multi pitches), it’s full day : Mône, Daille, Brévières etc : 550€ (1 or 2 participants sharing the price)
Ice fall climbing, what is this ? It’s climbing with ice axes and crampons on frozen waterfalls. This activity, borned in 70’s, has evoluaed a lot with new equipment technologies, and new activity as “dry tooling”. Today it’s playful activity, inspired a lot by rock climbing body language. Every body can try it, from 12 years old.
We have a chance in Meribel, we’re close to one of most famous artificial ice tower, situated in Champagny le Haut, ab 30mn by car from Meribel. This tower, with 22m high, propose different runs, easy to expert. You can forecast a half day for initiate yourself on ice climbing. If you enjoy it, we can propose you to climb a “true” natural ice fall with further pithces in a raw : emotions guaranteed !
Price: 550€
Ice fall climbing is directly linked to the ice fall conditions, please contact our office for booking. The price for the Champagny artificial ice tower is 370€ for 1 thru 4 participants. You can nevertheless book through the following form, your request will be registered but paiement will be done through our office, following mode of paiement that we will communicate to you when contacted by phone or email. Thank you.
Over 600km of pistes await you in the 3 Vallées, the largest ski resort in the world. You wish to discover it and enjoy it in the best conditions possible ? You would love to glide on the superbly groomed pistes without worrying about anything else ? Let us guide you through our “ski guiding” program ! With family or friends, let’s discover together the wonderful pistes of Courchevel, Méribel, and the Belleville valley !
Booking and additionnal information by phone directly at the Mountain Guides’ Office: +33 6 43 89 72 91
Please note that our ski guiding activity is not a ski lesson, we do not teach basic ski technique.
The Gébroulaz glacier is to Vanoise what the Vallée Blanche is to Chamonix : a wonderful place to discover glacier skiing !
A magical ski experience, on soft untracked slopes, in the middle of an incredible landscape !
From Méribel, we’ll take the ski lifts to reach the top of Val Thorens. We will then skin up for 2 hours to the Gébroulaz pass high up at over 3400m of elevation, where a well deserved break will preceed a highly enjoyable glacier descent into the wild.
Three options are offered to us:
For easy slope lovers, we will glide through great landscapes towards the Tueda lake in Méribel Mottaret, in the heart of the Tueda Natural Park.
For the more athletic it’s possible to go down on the Glacier and skin back up to the Glacier du Borgne. From there we’ll ski back down to Méribel Mottaret.
The nicest option, the “guide’s favorite”, is to join the typical village of Pralognan. This route is the most exceptional for its marvellous landscapes and slopes. A taxi will take us back to the 3 Valleys, a day you will never forget !
Required ski level: advanced to expert off piste skier, off-piste skiing experience is required.
