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Guide A guide is a person who leads travelers or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations The term can also be applied to a person who leads others to more abstract goals such as knowledge or wisdom Contents Travel and recreation Tour guide Mountain guide Wilderness guide Hunting guide Safari guide Fishing guide Military guides and Guides regiments Metaphysics Trip sitter Guided meditation In Islam See also References Austrian mountain guides Anselm Klotz left and Josef Frey right th century Travel and recreation Explorers in the past venturing into territory unknown by their own people invariably hired guides Lewis and Clark hired Sacagawea to help them explore the American West and Wilfred Thesiger hired guides in the deserts that he ventured into such as Kuri on his journey to the Tibesti Mountains in Tour guide Tour guides lead visitors through tourist attractions and give information about the attractions' natural and cultural signi ?cance Often they also act as interpreters for travelers who do not speak the local language Automated systems like audio tours are sometimes substituted for human tour guides Tour operators often hire guides to lead tourist groups Mountain guide Mountain guides are those employed in mountaineering these are not merely to show the way but stand in the position of professional climbers with an expert knowledge of rock and snowcraft which they impart to the amateur at the same time assuring the safety of the climbing part yThis professional class of guides arose in the middle of the th century when Alpine climbing became recognized as saport A tour guide at theCentre Block in Canada CIn Switzerland the central committee of the Swiss Alpine Club issues a guides ? tari ? which ?xes the charges for guides and porters there are three sections for theValais and Vaudois Alps for the Bernese Oberland and for central and eastern Switzerland In Chamonix France a statue has been raised to Jacques Balmat who was the ?rst to climb Mont Blanc in Other notable European guides areChristian Almer Jakob and Melchior Anderegg Auguste Balmat Alexander Burgener Armand Charlet Michel Croz François Devouassoud Angelo Dibona Andreas Heckmair the Innerko er family Conrad Kain Christian Klucker and Matthias Zurbriggen Wilderness guide A wilderness guide leads others through wilderness areas and works to ensure the safety of their clients Wilderness guides are expected to have a command of survival skills such as making shelters ?re- making navigation and ?rst aid and an understanding of the ecology and history of the location where they guide Other common skills among guides include traditional handicrafts and cooking methods ?shing hunting bird watching and nature conservation Wilderness tours usually take place on foot or skis or snowshoes if there is snow but may also involve other vehicles such as cars snowmobiles canoes kayaks or sledges Adirondack guides carrying and rowing guideboats on the Raquette River Hunting guide Hunting guides are employed by those seeking to hunt wildlife especially big game animals in the wild European hunting guides working in
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