Ridge is a climbing co-op for alpine mixed, technical rock and cascade ice. Eleven full-member guides. A shared rack, a shared library, a shared logbook — and a fee structure that returns every surplus in January.
+4,000 m
ED2 · VI / M6
11
842
47
We don't offer "adventure". We offer rope-days. Each discipline has grade thresholds, season windows, and a skills call before sign-on. No shortcuts, no package deals.
Multi-day alpine objectives in the Mont Blanc massif, Bernese Oberland and Dolomites. Co-op permits for north-face routes most outfits can't access.
Route-development weeks with first-ascensionists in Valle dell'Orco.
We bring screws, tools and lanterns; you bring the nerve.
SRT Level II, crevasse extraction, short-haul coordination.
Map, compass, altimeter. White-out procedure in the Écrins.
26.04 → 29.04 · -12°C / +2°C · wind 18 km/h SW
The logbook entry, verbatim, from a guided ascent last April. Bearings, elevations and times as recorded at each station.
Alarm at the Couvercle refuge. A lit match, a damp boot, rope flaked on the table. The guide reads the window aloud from the fax bulletin.
Crampons on at the glacier lip. We move roped, twelve metres apart, head-torch beams crossing the sérac field at Jardin de Talèfre.
Bergschrund crossed on a snow bridge. Single screw in at the base of the couloir. The sun hits the summit ridge above us; we stay in shadow.
M5 mixed. Hook, torque, hook. A nut in a thin seam, a drytool on a wafer of granite. Breath held; rope paid out in half-metres.
Knife-edge corniced. We walk it unroped at the guide's call — fall-line to one side, ocean of cloud to the other. Thirty-seven minutes to the cross.
Eight rappels down the voie normale. Rope-ends weighted, knots dressed, prussik backed. The descent is always where people die; nobody talks much.
Every number below is a count of rope-days, summit registers and incident logs. No rounding. Published annually to all members.
3,742
member-days on the rope in 2025
47
named first ascents in the last decade
94.3%
summit rate across guided objectives
0
fatal incidents in co-op history
Each of our guides is a full co-op owner. Roster for the 2026 season below — click a portrait to see their logbook and open rope-days.
Inés Torralba
UIAGM · Aspirant 2011
Granite · Patagonia · waterfall ice
Koen Vastenhouw
IFMGA · since 2008
Big wall · alpine mixed
Tomás Arellano
UIAGM · first ascents
Dolomitic limestone · aid
Saskia Rinderknecht
IFMGA · ski mountaineering
High-altitude · expedition
Mattias Lindqvist
Rescue lead · SAR-II
Technical rescue · logistics
Norah Bakhtari
UIAGM · crag development
Sport projects · equipping
Three letters a month, delivered on paper and in plain email. No brand placements. Written by the guide who ran the route.
“Ridge doesn't market itself like other guiding outfits. They showed me a topo, told me the weather window was three days out, and said: decide tonight. That's the tone. I came back stronger for it.”
Etienne Quirion
480 EUR / yr
Rope-day from 220 EUR. Surplus rebated every January.
Talk to a full-member guide for thirty minutes. No pitch, no package. A skills conversation and, if it fits, a logbook entry for your first rope-day together.