April 29, 2025 Well- that’s a wrap, folks! We’re finishing up guide training this week. Over the past week we’ve had field sessions for the guides to review and test on crevasse rescue, avalanche rescue, camp maintenance and many more topics. Our team going up to Denali also had their own field day and HQ […]
Mt. Rainier
IMG New Guide Training 2025

April 28, 2025 IMG is gearing up for the season on Rainier, and our new guides spent last week with with some of our supervisors, getting to know Mt. Rainier!
Guide Training 2025
April 24, 2025 New guide training 2025 underway on Rainier.
Denali Expedition Prep Seminar – After Bad Weather Comes Good!

April 3rd, 2025 IMG’s Denali Prep Expedition Seminar spent four days on Mt. Rainier last weekend, honing teamwork and essential mountaineering skills. Winter on Mt. Rainier provides the perfect environment to experience the challenges of a larger expedition, such as Denali, Aconcagua, or Everest. The team faced a mix of weather conditions while practicing technical […]
Denali Prep on Mt. Rainier!

March 29, 2025 Day one of Denali Prep Seminar on Mt. Rainier! Pristine snow, and blue sky’s as the team ascends to their basecamp. Max Bond (Photo)
Mt. Rainier, the perfect classroom for AIARE!
February 12, 2025 Enjoy the pictures from this weekend February 8th and 9th as Mt. Rainier showed what a perfect classroom it can be! There are few things like experiencing the mountains during the winter. The beauty, the majesty, the solitude, the vastness. IMG was proud to offer AIARE Avalanche level1 courses this […]
Success on Rainier!

August 25th, 2024 IMGs climbing teams had a successful morning on both Little T and Rainier. Lead Guide Annabelle Kays lead her team to the summit of Rainier via IMGs Emmons Shoulder Route under clear skies. Senior Guide Max Bond lead his team to the summit of Little Tahoma and captured photos of Annabelle’s team […]
IMG Guides Establish a New Route to Mt Rainier Summit

Aug 12, 2024 – We are very proud to say that our IMG guides have established and prepared a new route to the summit of Mt Rainier. Over the last week they have put in about 25 “guide days” of work to scout, establish and prepare the route so that on Sunday our 3.5 day […]
Mt. Rainier Summits!
July 30, 2024 Defying all odds with crummy weather the past few days, our 3.5 Day DC Climb led by Brad Swanson summited this morning via the DC! Congrats to this crew! With our last Kautz and Emmons launching in the next week or so, our big summer rush is starting to come to an […]
DC Summits!

July 16, 2024 Our guide team worked tirelessly over the past five days to reestablish a climbing route on the DC, and the fruits of their labor has delivered! Our DC summit climb this morning, led by Max Bond, reached the summit with the team. We’re full steam ahead in the Cascades!