🇬🇧  Want to get better at tree skiing, freeride, touring, ski mountaineering, steep skiing? My route to skiing the hardest routes in the Alps didn’t just happen overnight but the you don’t have to spend years obtaining all this knowledge for yourself when I can coach you to better performance in all aspects of the sport from technical skiing, touring, mountaineering, nutrition, training, injury avoidance, psychology, strategy, evaluating conditions.

I have gained knowledge and experience from many walks of life. As a teenager I was heavily focused on racing mountain bikes and at 16 placed 3rd Junior in the Scottish MTB Series. The support and training I got covered base fitness, high intensity training HIT, power and endurance, strength, injury prevention, nutrition, massage, visualisation and psychological development. As an engineer on high risk offshore construction projects I’ve learnt how to evaluate and mitigate against risk, whether it be physical or financial risk. Certainly a skill I use continuously while in the mountains.  And my skiing followed a similar path of development from initial instruction on piste, racing slalom, offpiste, mountaineering skills, avalanche evaluation, steep skiing, back country and remote wilderness skills. I was already a steep skier before coming to Chamonix in my teens, but that was just a foundation on which to build and develop into a big mountain skier. After 40 years on skis I’m still learning, but I’ve learnt a lot along the way and can save you making some of the mistakes I learnt the hard way and fast track your development.

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Envie de vous perfectionner en accrobranche, freeride, randonnĂ©e, ski alpinisme, ski de pente raide? Mon parcours pour skier les itinĂ©raires les plus difficiles des Alpes et devenir guide ne s’est pas fait du jour au lendemain, mais vous n’avez pas besoin de passer des annĂ©es Ă  acquĂ©rir toutes ces connaissances par vous-mĂŞme, seul, car je peux vous entraĂ®ner et vous aider ainsi Ă  obtenir de meilleures performances dans tous les aspects du sport : ski technique, randonnĂ©e, alpinisme, nutrition, entraĂ®nement, prĂ©vention des blessures, psychologie, stratĂ©gie, Ă©valuation des conditions.

J’ai acquis ces connaissances et cette expérience dans de nombreux horizons.

Adolescent, j’étais fortement concentrĂ© sur le vĂ©los enduro Ă  haut niveau : Ă  16 ans, je me suis classĂ© 3e junior des Scottish MTB Series. Le soutien et l’entraĂ®nement que j’ai reçu alors m’ont permis d’enrichir mes connaissances sur l’acquisition d’une condition physique de base, l’entraĂ®nement de haute intensitĂ© HIT, la puissance et l’endurance, la force, la prĂ©vention des blessures, la nutrition, le massage, la visualisation et le dĂ©veloppement psychologique.

En tant qu’ingĂ©nieur sur des projets de construction offshore Ă  haut risque, j’ai appris Ă  Ă©valuer et Ă  attĂ©nuer les risques, qu’ils soient physiques ou financiers. Certainement une compĂ©tence que j’utilise continuellement en montagne. Et mon ski a suivi un chemin de dĂ©veloppement similaire depuis mes dĂ©buts sur piste, puis slalom de course et hors-piste, jusqu’Ă  l’acquisition de compĂ©tences propres Ă  une Ă©volution en milieu sauvage Ă©loignĂ© ou dans l’arrière-pays: l’évaluation des avalanches, ou du risque en ski de pente raide. Adolescent, avant de venir Ă  Chamonix, j’étais dĂ©jĂ  un skieur de pente raide , mais ce ne fut que la base sur laquelle s’est construite mon devenir de skieur en haute montagne, en milieu hostile. Après 40 ans sur les skis, j’apprends toujours, mais j’ai beaucoup appris en cours de route et je peux vous Ă©viter de commettre certaines des erreurs que j’ai apprises Ă  la dure et accĂ©lĂ©rer votre dĂ©veloppement.

 
 
 
 
Ross Hewitt West Face of Mont Blanc
Skiing the 2000 m Himalayan sized West Face of Mont Blanc by the Sylvan Saudan route. I fortuitously met Saudan the next day while out on my mountain bike
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The Matterhorn East Face, getting ready for that first turn
Ross Hewitt Skiing the Matterhorn East Face
Skiing the Matterhorn East Face
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The Eiger – Cedric Bernardini sheltering out of the fall line of the serac
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Cedric Bernardini setting off down the West Face of the Eiger with the vertiginous North Face just feet away on the right
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Col de la Verte, Argentiere Basin
Ross Hewitt Guiding Chamonix Freeride 54
Tacul Shouder with Mt Blanc in the background
Ross Hewitt Guiding Baffin Island skiing 167
Marcus Waring skiing an 1100 m line in Gibbs Fiord, Baffin
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Polar Star Couloir, Beluga Spire, Baffin Island
Ross Hewitt skiing a 1450 m Couloir in Baffin Island 2014
Ross Hewitt skiing a 1450 m Couloir in Baffin Island 2014
Ross Hewitt New Zealand
Ross Hewitt above Mueller Lake, New Zealand
Mt Mallet West Face
Mt Mallet West Face
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The East Face of the Matterhorn after we skied the face, June 2015
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At the top of the Mt Mallet Shoulder
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Me on the Frendo Spur by Luca Pandolfi
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Photo by Cedric Bernardini of me at Skyway
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Photo by Cedric Bernardini of me on the Tacul Shoulder
ross hewitt in chamonix by cedric bernardini
Skiing under the Chamonix Aiguilles by Cedric Bernardini
Ross Hewitt Guiding freeride on the para face
Mach 2 on the Para Face
Ross Hewitt ski Guiding freeride on Grand Envers
Jim Lee shredding Grands Envers
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Me freeriding amongst the Patagonian spires above Frey hut
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Aiguille du Midi, One of the greatest ski lifts in the World
Lofoten Norway rosshewittguiding.com 44
New routing in Lofoten by Michelle Blaydon
Ross Hewitt in front of Peuterey Ridge of Mont Blanc by Ben Tibbetts
In front of the Peuterey Ridge of Mont Blanc by Ben Tibbetts
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Entreves Spur by Ben Tibbetts
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Epaule du Tacul by Cedric Bernardini
Ross Hewitt Steep Skiing in the Miage Basin in Aigle Couloir
Steep Skiing in the Miage Basin in Aigle Couloir
Ross Hewitt Guiding Chamonix Freeride 47
Ski touring in the Vallee Blanche area
Ross Hewitt showing friends the Marbree Couloir by Sam Strauss
Me showing friends the Marbree Couloir by Sam Strauss