Skye Guides

Why work with Skye Guides? The Skye Cuillin are the only Alpine mountains in Britain. The work gives intense opportunities to learn, practice and fine tune techniques that will fast-track your guiding and instructing to the very highest levels. We’d like to hear from anyone with a high level of enthusiasm for Skye whether you […]

Skye Guides is a small company providing a range of services similar to that on offer through many mountain guiding bureaux in the Alps. We still have our original base in Luib but now run the business from Skye Basecamp in Broadford. Established in 1995 the company has built a reputation for providing outings, instruction and […]

Skye Guides operates as a close-knit team of instructors and guides to run the various courses on offer. They have been selected because of their professionalism and passion for the Black Cuillin as well as their experience, qualifications and an intimate knowledge of the terrain. In-house training is given through shadowing experienced Skye Guides. Low ratio […]

Mike Lates is the owner and director of Skye Guides. He started guiding on Skye in the 1995 and developed a reputation for providing Cuillin outings of the highest quality by sticking to private guiding and treating clients as his climbing partner for the day. This is the Skye Guides philosophy! He is as enthusiastic […]

Andy is back on Skye for his eleventh season with Skye Guides, an experienced and highly respected part of the team. He holds both MCI and WMCI awards and is a prolific climbing activist. Originally from Northern Ireland, Andy studied English Literature at Edinburgh University. Since then he has been darting around the country trying […]

Malcolm is a massive Cuillin enthusiast having been brought up on a diet of climbing winter routes here since he was a school kid. He has worked with us since 2010 and those of you who have been out with him will know that he is as enthusiastic as ever for Cuillin adventures. He has […]

Graham runs Frost Guiding , one of the major companies providing guiding in both summer and winter. If you want to tackle Alpine classics like the Matterhorn, try ice-fall climbing or top-end ski mountaineering, you can contact him directly or talk with us first. Graham started his guiding work with Skye Guides in 2005 and […]

Tom’s back again for more Cuillin fun this Spring. For half the year he is a senior instructor at White Hall Outdoor Centre near Sheffield, working with school groups. His summers are spent in the Alps and Greater ranges. Tom started rock climbing in the Lake District whilst at University. He first came to the […]

Gillian has worked with Skye Guides for 14 years. Her knowledge of the Ridge, climbing and rope skills and enthusiasm for the Cuillin guarantees a high quality outing every day. Introduced to the outdoors through skiing as a 3 year-old Gillian has been climbing since the mid-nineties. Starting with a stint at Outward Bound in […]

Lucy has been a big part of Skye Guides and Basecamp for many years and started working as a guide in 2019. She made the break from teaching after more than a decade of inspiring primary kids with the great outdoors and now uses the same enthusiasm and skill with clients.  Her Cuillin knowledge and […]

Mike joined the Skye Guides team in 2021 but has been guiding in the Cuillin for the previous 3 years. His calm steady demeanor will steady even the most nervous of guests. His geological knowledge is far better than most and a wealth of expedition experiences are always told with passion and a grin 😉 […]

Dan moved to Skye in 2020 and mixes his guiding with being the local postie! He qualified with his MIA whilst living and working in North Wales back in 2003. He has climbed extensively across Europe, particularly in Bavaria but also in France, Switzerland and Spain with other trips including a memorable trip to Jordon. […]

We are delighted to have Neil back again for his 3rd consecutive season. Holding the UK’s highest award, being a Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor (WMCI), Neil instructs and guides all aspects of climbing throughout the UK. Neil spends many of his winters on Scottish snow and ice and his springs/summers guiding on Skye. He […]

  Emlyn grew up on the border of the black mountains and the Brecon Beacons in South Wales, with a childhood was spent either hiking or mountain biking. He discovered climbing when he went to university in 2015. Since then he has climbed all around the UK, Europe, Canada and Iceland. He’s been working in […]

Aidan joined the team in 2023 on a part time basis then worked throughout the 2024 season. Originally from Portsmouth, he first came to Skye as an 18 year old and, as with so many people, the love affair continues to grow. He’s climbed in the Alps, Morocco, Norway and Spain but Scotland beats the […]

Henry joined Skye Guides in 2023 and then did stints in both spring and autumn ’24. He grew up in the Yorkshire Dales and started climbing on the Gritstone edges. He soon progressed to longer mountain climbs in the Lake District and now lives in North Wales. Work and climbing means that Henry increasingly finds […]