Mountain guide
Also called ski guide, alpine guide, hiking guide
Mountain guides assist visitors, interpret natural heritage and provide information and guidance to tourists on mountain expeditions. They support visitors with activities such as hiking, climbing and skiing in addition to ensuring their safety through monitoring both weather and health conditions.
What you'd do
Fitness and recreation instructors and programme leaders · ILO- Planning and carrying out recreational and fitness activities
- Monitoring recreational, sports or fitness activities to ensure safety and provide emergency or first aid assistance when required
- Evaluating and monitoring clients’ abilities and fitness and recommending activities
- Demonstrating and teaching body movements, concepts and skills used in fitness routines and recreational activities
- Instructing in the use of equipment
- Explaining and enforcing safety procedures, rules and regulations
- Indoors
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Lots of contact with people, including the public
- Good freedom to decide
- Usually under 40 hours a week
- Deadlines now and then
- Varied tasks, little repetition
Will there be jobs?
Yes, good prospectsMany jobs will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
About averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,400 a month (Bulgaria) to €6,600 (Luxembourg), before tax.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see typical pay there, for people under 30, and compared with all jobs.
Among technicians and associate professionals in the EU, women earn 16% less per hour than men. Technicians and associate professionals · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Usually post-secondary or a short degreePost-secondary training or a short degree in earth sciences is the usual route.
697 institutions in the EU offer science and maths bachelor's degrees. Pick a country at the top of the page to see where to study and the official course finders.
Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.25 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 6 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for fitness and recreation instructors and programme leaders. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).