Ascending Path

01/03/2023

We are hiring!

If a Summer spent guiding through the Alaskan wilderness seems appealing, we might be looking for you!

Send us a message, or email us at [email protected]

01/01/2023

🎉Ascending Path wishes you all a Happy New Year, full of memorable adventures all around the world!🎉

We are looking forward to seeing you in Alaska this upcoming Summer!

09/10/2022

This bull moose was spotted today swimming across the Spencer lake... He seemed a tad chilly when he got out…

05/25/2022

For our Girdwood peeps-

05/25/2022

Our season is from May through September. We work hard in the summer months and play hard in fall and winter. Guides are expected to be available the full 100 days, with pre-scheduled days off. We pay very well, with a tailored job offer to your specific case. Guides can expect housing assistance, swag, helicopter trips, great tips and lifelong friends.
AP's Climbing and Spencer Glacier Guides typically have a very strong background in roped and un-roped (hard ice) glacier travel, heli ops, rock and ice climbing, sea kayaking, risk management and have advanced medical certifications (WFR/EMT). If you do not have previous glacier and sea kayaking guiding experience, you will not be considered for a guide position. Most of our employees are already Alaskan residents, all with a cheerful, enthusiastic work ethic and a clean driving record. Many of our guides have international climbing and back-country experience, a bachelor's degree and freelance to other top notch guide services. Please read the job descriptions below and email us a cover letter and resume.
Please read through our website to get a better understanding of our background and the services we provide. If you are interested in joining our team of committed and dedicated guides, email us your resume and a letter describing why you want to work with us, the jobs you are applying for (preference is given to local Alaskans).
Thanks again for your interest in joining our team.

05/25/2022

Looking for steady summer employment in Girdwood? Answer phone calls with a smile and book clients for our fun adventure tourism business!!
See our employment page for more info and how to apply.

07/28/2020

There’s arguably no better adventure in Alaska than staying with our partner Alyeska Resort, and getting up on and INTO a glacier with our partners Alpine Air Alaska, LLC- then be shown the ropes by our fun guides!
Anyone have photos from their trip with us?!

The only kind of weekday blues we ever want to see 👌⁣
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📸: Ascending Path ⁣

07/04/2020

Happy Birthday America!
We’re a go for Heli Ice Climbs and Glacier Hikes. (All Clients need to show recent negative test results, and mask up)

We started the day today at Hotel Alyeska, enjoyed a Kaladi Bro’s Coffee, shopped some Patagonia (...so much better than Starbucks and North Face!)
Then we flew with the awesome Alpine Air- where we found a crawl thru tube and crushed some vertical ice. Great day!!

Alyeska Resort Alpine Air Alaska, LLC Patagonia Kaladi Brothers Coffee Spencer Glacier

05/14/2020

We dream of feathery ice....

04/23/2020

A really cool thing happened today. A long time friend (you know who you are!) purchased transferable store credit with AP for a family visit in 2021. We are so grateful for our supportive friends!!

04/21/2020

Alaskans, staycation this summer with mom & pop Girdwood, Alaskan owned Ascending Path Guides. We offer small ratio eco-day tours many of which can be bought out as a private. For the last 17 years growing our business in Girdwood from nothing, we have donated our trips and time, heavily discounted and for free when we could, to non-profits in our great state and offered local Alaskan discounts. Spencer iceberg kayaking tours, helicopter glacier hiking and ice climbing and glacier camping are all trips of a lifetime that we would like to share with you. Helping support AP this summer would also help the non-profits we support. Check out our website, call or email us for your discount code.

“Regardless of mandates, people’s travel habits have been impacted by this event, said Jon Faulkner, who runs Land’s End Resort in Homer. ”This isn’t just a little blip.