Employment With International Alpine Guides
Looking for employment in the guiding and avalanche instruction world?
An experienced guide perhaps looking for a new opportunity?
Looking to grow with an International guiding company that has extensive experience running trips around the world?
International Alpine Guides offers opportunities to the newer and more experienced guides alike.
Domestically, we are one of California’s largest and most diverse mountain guiding companies with bases in:
Mammoth Lakes in the Eastern Sierra
Truckee in the North Lake Tahoe area
Mount Shasta (Spring & summer)
Our permitted terrain ranges from SPI rock guiding, alpine rock, ski, to complicated glaciated alpine guiding. We offer work in all disciplines and have large and vibrant programs in rock guiding, alpine guiding, ski guiding, backpacking and AAI avalanche instruction. We are committed to the guiding profession as a viable career and are looking for committed mountain guides and instructors who feel the same.
IAG offers:
A very competitive pay scale tied to your level of AMGA and other professional training that in most cases exceeds national averages
An employer who values your work and backs that up by following and exceeding all California labor laws such as mileage reimbursement, employee (W4) status with workers comp & legal recognition of hours on overnight work assignments
Continuing education benefits with direct financial help towards AMGA and other continuing education courses
Rental Assistance for year round guides
End of season bonuses
Diverse guiding in the nations most diverse mountain terrain
Career path development with international guiding work and mentoring from IFMGA guides.
A fun and rewarding work environment with a top notch team of professionals
Please browse our current job postings below:
Posted 2/11/26
We are currently hiring for the following guide positions for the upcoming Winter 2025/2026 season & beyond:
Posted 2/11/26:
Eastern Sierra Based Ski, Rock, Alpine Guide & Avalanche Instructor - Year Round or seasonal Full Time
We are looking for qualified guides to lead guests on ski tours, alpine rock routes as well as teach rock & mountaineering courses in the Sierra Nevada year round. This is a full time 10 1/2 month position. AMGA ski, rock & alpine course or above required. WFR required of course. LNT training required (we can help provide this). 4 years professional experience working in avalanche terrain and a Professional Level 1 Avalanche course is a big plus.
We are also looking for additional full time seasonal guides to work this coming Spring and Summer season from May through early October in the High Sierra.
We are looking for friendly, flexible and professional individuals who would love to safely guiding our guests in the Eastern Sierra and High Sierra.
We offer a very competitive pay structure that includes:
Some of the highest pay in the industry: $235 to $425 per day depending on level of AMGA training/certification & assignment
Mileage
Benefits for continuing education in the guiding profession, such as help paying for AMGA courses
End of season Bonuses
Opportunity to guide on some of our other terrain such as Tahoe rock and Shasta Glaciers
Rental assistance for year round guides
If interested in this position shoot an email to Dave Miller at: Dave@internationalalpineguides.com
Posted 2/11/26:
Mount Shasta Guide - Late April through July or August 2026
We are looking for qualified guides to lead guests up basic alpine snow routes as well as ski descents on Mount Shasta for the coming season from Late April through either end of July or perhaps into August. This is a full time 3+ month position. AMGA alpine skills course or above preffered. WFR required of course. LNT training required (we can help provide this).
We are looking for friendly, flexible and professional individuals who would love to spend the Spring/Summer season safely guiding our guests on beautiful Mount Shasta. This is a perfect first alpine guiding job.
We offer a very competitive pay structure that includes:
Some of the highest pay in the industry: $310 to $425 per day (on overnight trips) depending on level of AMGA training/certification & assignment
Mileage
Benefits for continuing education in the guiding profession, such as help paying for AMGA courses
End of season Bonuses
Posted 2/12/26:
North Lake Tahoe Rock, Ski Guide & AAI Avalanche Instructor - Year Round
We are looking for and additional qualified guide to lead our guests on ski tours, teach avalanche courses and guide rock climbs in the North Lake Tahoe/Truckee area year round. This is a full time 10 1/2 month position. AMGA rock guide course and AMGA ski guide course required. We teach American Avalanche Institute avalanche courses which does not require an AIARE ITC course but does require a min of 4 seasons working in avalanche terrain (patrol, guiding, etc) WFR also required.
We are looking for friendly, flexible and professional individuals who would like to base out of the Tahoe/Reno area. There is also opportunity to take work assignments out of the North Tahoe area on the alpine rock and fantastic ski terrain of the High Sierra and Mount Shasta if desired.
We offer a very competitive pay structure that includes:
Some of the highest pay in the industry: $235 to $425 per day (on overnight trips) depending on level of AMGA training/certification & assignment
Mileage
Benefits for continuing education in the guiding profession, such as help paying for AMGA courses
Rental assistance for year round guides
End of season Bonuses
If interested in this position shoot an email to Dave Miller at: Dave@internationalalpineguides.com
At International Alpine Guides we have a strong team of mountain professionals, but are always interested in talking to new faces about joining our team. We are, at times, looking for outdoor professionals who share a love for the mountain lifestyle and are avid climbers, skiers & backpacker/adventurers. We have different categories of guides including:
Alpine Guide
Ice Guide
Rock Climbing Guide
Ski Guide
AAI Avalanche Instructors (Professional level 1 + 4 years working in avalanche terrain.)
Backpacking Guide
We operate at the highest standards in the mountain guiding industry and require our lead guides to have specific training and experience depending on the type of activity and terrain they will be guiding. We believe in the AMGA standard of practice which is scheduled to be fully implemented in 2022 and we plan to require all our guides to be compliant with those standards by then. In the meantime, we do have certain standards as move towards the SOP. Please contact me for more information. We are also interested in bringing on new guides.
What we can offer is:
A very competitive pay scale
Educational benefits towards AMGA and other courses
Mentorship
A fun and rewarding work environment
If you are interested in joining our team shoot an email to: dave@internationalalpineguides.com
Dave Miller
Owner/Director
IFMGA mountain & ski guide
