Partners
At Home in the Mountains of the World
SummitClimb - worldwide partners
Regional Partnerships: A crucial factor in the success of expeditions, climbing, skiing, and trekking trips is knowing the right local contacts—whether in South America, Africa, the Himalayas, Karakorum, Central Asia, Antarctica, or Papua.
Over many years, we have built reliable networks: professional partnerships and personal friendships. This ensures that you can always count on delicious meals, timely transportation, well-maintained vehicles, safe arrival of luggage, and immediate alternatives if plans change.
In short, without our dependable local partners—cooks, kitchen staff, drivers, Sherpas, porters, and agencies—none of this would be possible. We prioritize the well-being of these individuals, offering fair wages, training opportunities, and high-quality equipment. This approach benefits everyone involved and brings joy to all participants.
Africa
Felix Berg, our CEO, lived a year in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, in 2002. Thereby he got to know the country and its people, and those who are capable of reliably organizing mountain trips and safaris. These long-term partnerships and dedicated teams are what make us stand out as tour operator in Africa. Our center for all tours in East Africa is logically located in Nairobi, a meanwhile extremely modern city. It is about 150km away from both Kilimanjaro like Mount Kenya and therefore an excellent starting point for safaris and mountain tours. In Moshi, Tanzania, we have established a partner agency that supports all our Kilimanjaro climbs. Our trips to Uganda, Central Africa and North Africa are organized or supported by reputable agencies in the respective countries.
Asien
Over many big expeditions and small treks, we have build reliable and long-standing partners in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, in Russia (unfortunately now closed to the terrible conflict), in Western China and Tibet/China (both reopening 2023 / 2024), and Pakistan. We are also proud to have some of the best country experts in our ranks, and reliable partner agencies. Along the entire Greater Himalayans, in the Karakoram, Pamir, Tien Shan and Caucasus we offer a variety of exciting treks, climbs and expeditions, and can accommodate individual tours.
Europe - Alps and Pyrenees
Our Europe stretches from our head quarters in Switzerland to the Swiss mountains (alps inn generell) and France (pyrenees) to Mount Elbrus in Russia (unfortunately currently suspended in terrible crisis). The Alps are the home of many of our guides and a favorite vacation destination for many of our participants. At SummitClimb we focus on expeditions to the big mountains of the world, so "only" our preparation events and the ascent of Elbrus take place in Europe. Soon you will find here more information about our European teams and partners.
Polar – Antarctica Expeditions
After cooperating with ALE since 2018, we have been on Antarctica with our own setup since 2022: Felix and Magdalena led a small expedition and climbed Mount Vinson, Mount Shinn and Mount Rossmann. With our expertise from explorations on the highest mountains in the world, we are well equipped to lead your expedition in the extreme environment of Antarctica.
Southern American Climbs - Andes
In South America we maintain good relationships with well-known mountaineers and mountain guides. Along the Andes, jungle, snow mountains, plateaus, coasts can be combined to diverse mountain trips. In the mountains of the Andes many well known alpinists started their career in the higher mountains, like our managing director and expedition leader Felix Berg in 2000 with a youth expedition in the Peruvian Cordilleras. Felix was on Kangchenzönga in 2002 with Ivan Vallejo from Ecuador ("Desafio 14" - ascent of 14 x 8000m, completed May 2008), since then one of our valued Summit-Climb-friends.
