01Nepal · Manang
Annapurna
Circuit Plus
The classic circuit — then off it, up the arête the trekkers photograph.
Est. 2009 · Chamonix — Kathmandu — Talkeetna
Apex Expeditions
Guided ascents beyond the guidebook.
- 0seasons
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- 0summits guided
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Featured expeditions · 2026–27
Three lines.
No queues.
Teams of six. One guide per two climbers above the last camp. Read the numbers before you read the prose.
Annapurna
02Peru · Cordillera Blanca
Alpamayo
Southwest Face
Sixty degrees of fluted ice. The most beautiful mountain does not care.
03Alaska · Denali NP
Denali
West Rib
Cold, committing, direct. The rib is the honest way up the mountain.
Route profile · Annapurna Circuit Plus
One line,
drawn well.
Forty-two kilometres of walking earn nine hundred metres of climbing. The profile below is the actual acclimatisation ladder — camps where the bodies said so, not the brochure.
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Two nights at every camp above 4,900 m. Slow is a strategy, not a compromise.
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Summit window opens 03:40. Turn-around is 11:00, and it is not negotiable.
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Descent to Camp I the same day. Sleep low. The mountain keeps the change.
The rope
Who ties in
first.
Every Apex lead guide holds the full IFMGA carnet. Certifications open the door; the numbers below are why you follow them through it.
Ingrid Solheim
IFMGA · Norwegian Mountain Guide Assoc. · Lead guide, Himalaya
0summits above 6,000 m
Reads snowpack the way other people read weather apps. Called the 2023 Manaslu retreat four hours before the serac went.
Marco Bettini
IFMGA · UIAGM Aspirant Examiner · Lead guide, Andes
0ascents of Alpamayo
Has climbed the Southwest Face in every condition it offers. Ties the same knot at 5,900 m that he ties at the trailhead.
Pasang Nuru Sherpa
IFMGA · Nepal National Mountain Guide Assoc. · Expedition leader
0ascents of 8,000 m peaks
Grew up at 3,800 m in the Khumbu. Carries the weather in his knees and has never once been wrong about the wind.
Ethos · Safety
We turn around.
That is the skill.
- 2 : 1Client-to-guide ratio above 6,000 m. Above the last camp it drops to one-to-one on request.
- 2×Independent weather desks — Bern and Kathmandu — forecasting every route, every six hours.
- 100%Of our porters and camp staff insured to guide-level cover. It is not a perk; it is the price of the rope.
- 0Summits worth a life. Seventeen seasons, three hundred and twelve summits, everyone home.
“The mountain decides the schedule.
We decide everything else.”
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