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ABOUT NEIL HITCHINGS
INTERNATIONAL (IFMGA) MOUNTAIN GUIDE SERVICE
I discovered rock climbing at the age of 16 and it quickly became the passion of my life. From rock climbing I graduated to Alpine summits and frozen waterfalls.
I settled in the Chamonix valley in the late 1970s and, among other things, I have worked as a ski-patroller at the Brˇvent ski area in Chamonix.
At that time I was almost certainly the only Englishman to be working as a ski patroller in France. This work involved maintaining security on the marked pistes,
evacuating the injured from the pistes and avalanche control. For several years, before deciding to become a guide, I ran my own rope access business.
I have now been working year round as a fully qualified U.I.A.G.M. guide for 10 years. I am a member of the (A.I.G.M.B.) Association Internationale des Guides
du Mont Blanc, based here in Chamonix. I have also been instructing and guiding for the Dutch organization E. B. Ski & Alpinisme, also based in the Chamonix valley,
for 10 years.
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