It’s been a long winter, but spring has arrived at IMG headquarters and our first crew of climbers with it! This first program is a Winter Expedition Prep Seminar. This seminar is an excellent training opportunity for future Denali/McKinley climbers, and covers the skills you’ll need to reach the summit. It feels so good to […]
August 28, 2025 Thank you all for a wonderful 2025 season on Rainier! Our climbs on Mt Rainier have ended, and our guides are hard at work preparing our gear and camps for the winter season ahead. It’s been a summer filled with smiles and summits and incredible memories. We’re looking forward to morechallenges, […]
May 25th, 2025 A successful week for International Mountain Guides on Mt. Rainier, as 2 of our Disappointment Cleaver teams enjoyed summits. Team #1 lead by Juliana Garcia celebrated the first summit of the 2025 season, with cold and breezy conditions and limited visibility from the crater. Team #2 lead by Angie Diana, summited […]
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 […]
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!
April 24, 2025 New guide training 2025 underway on Rainier.
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 […]
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)
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 […]
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 […]
