Impact Ascents – A warm welcome from cold places

Impact Ascents is a specialist mountaineering expedition company. If you want to explore some of the world’s most remote and glorious mountains, you’ve found friends. If you’re keen to travel with minimum impact on the environment and a positive impact for mountain communities, we’re exactly the right company for you.

Impact Ascents is all about expeditions that create great memories and minimise damage to the places we love.

Bespoke and specialist to make the most of the mountains

Impact Ascents is focused and specialist. We offer a programme of mountaineering and trekking expeditions each year alongside a flexible, tailor-made planning service that uses our contacts and networks in-country to create your ideal trip. We can even advise on your training programme ahead of a big ascent.

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Himalayas

We’ve climbed and trekked in Nepal, India and Pakistan and love the Himalayas, not just the mountains but also the people who survive and thrive in these amazing landscapes. We go to the places you know and some you may not have heard of – and we ensure that the local teams and partners and their communities benefit from our approach and our investment.

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High Atlas

High mountains and great climbing don’t need to be a long-haul flight away. We also organise climbing expeditions to the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, making the most of the winter snow cover much closer to home. The Impact Ascents ethos is still to invest in the communities that support our expeditions and to “tread lightly” in these environments.

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Alps

Last but very much not least, Impact Ascents loves the Alps. We’ve climbed across the range, from France and Switzerland through Austria to Slovenia, and can recommend the best bases and routes for expeditions that have a low impact on the environment but some of the best climbing in Europe.

If you’re keen to climb and explore, get in touch

Whether you’d like to join one of our planned trips or you’d prefer to discuss putting together something bespoke, we’re keen to find out more about your aims we’d love to see how we can help so please give us a call or drop us a line.

YES – that’s what we mean by low impact

We’ve seen the worst in terms of community and environmental impact and we are determined to be the best we can. It’s not just about taking out our rubbish – our investment in the places where we travel is all about YES – that’s Youth, Education and Sustainability.

We offer financial support for local education, particularly for girls, in Pakistan and invest in the training of our porters, drivers and cooks wherever we’re travelling. For us, it’s all about taking care of the resources, people and animals that make these places so special.

Have we convinced you?

If not, we’d love to chat and answer your questions. We’re excited about the opportunities for great climbing and expeditions in stunning landscapes and we’d love to share that enthusiasm with you. And, if you share our ethos, that’s even better – let’s talk.