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Guide
ganised tour or journey because they think this will mean
they will have a better experience to check the guide’s
qualifications beforehand.
Explorers in the past venturing into territory unknown
by their own people invariably hired guides. American
West explorers Lewis and Clark hired a Shoshone Indian
woman Sacagawea, and Wilfred Thesiger hired guides in
the deserts that he ventured into, such as Kuri on his
journey to the Tibesti Mountains in 1938.
Aside from knowing the way or the area geographically,
modern guides are usually hired to act as interpreters for
those travellers who do not speak the local language and
provide cultural, historical or other information on the
area visited. Travel companies organising tours of large
groups often have a guide or tour leader accompany the
group. They might also be trained in First Aid and have
other skills that reduce the risk for the tour operator to
conduct these tours or the travel agency selling them.
Here are some examples of guide professions:
Tourist guide
Main article: Tour guide
Austrian mountain guides Anselm Klotz (left) and Josef Frey
(right), 19th century
A guide is a person who leads anyone through un-
known or unmapped country. This includes a guide of the
real world (such as someone who conducts travellers and
tourists through a place of interest), as well as a person
who leads someone to more abstract places (such as to
knowledge or wisdom).
Guide - meanings related to
travel and recreational pur- A tour guide at the Centre Block in Canada.
suits Tourist Guides are representatives of the cities, regions
There are many variants of guides in this context, and and countries for which they are qualified. It depends
guides are often employed in any aspect of travel or ad- largely on them if visitors feel welcome, want to stay
venture, or wherever there is an advantage to the client longer or decide to come back. They therefore contribute
in terms of knowledge provided in improving the overall considerably to the perception of the destination. Tourist
travel experience or making the client feel more safe due Guides are able to help travellers understand the culture
to the presumed expertise of the guide. of the region visited and the way of life of its inhabitants.
These days guides will normally possess an area and They have a particular role on the one hand to promote
field-specific qualification usually issued and/or recog- the cultural and natural heritage whilst on the other
nised by the appropriate Guide’s Association or licensing hand to help ensure its sustainability by making visitors
authority. However this is not always the case, and it is aware of its importance and vulnerability. [EN
advisable for travellers paying a premium to go on an or- 13809:2003]
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Mountain guide Other skills may include traditional handicrafts and
cooking methods, fishing, hunting, bird watching, nature
Main article: Mountain guide
conservation and animal specialties.
Mountain guides are those employed in mountaineering;
These wilderness guided tours usually take place on
these are not merely to show the way but stand in the po-
foot (or skis or snowshoes if there is snow) but may also
sition of professional climbers with an expert knowledge
involve other vehicles such as cars, snowmobiles, ca-
of rock and snowcraft, which they impart to the amateur,
noes/kayaks, or sledges (traditionally pulled by huskies
at the same time assuring the safety of the climbing par-
or reindeers in countries such as Sweden, Finland and
ty. This professional class of guides arose in the middle
Canada).[1]
of the 19th century when Alpine climbing became recog-
nized as a sport.
In Switzerland, the central committee of the Swiss
Hunting guide
Alpine Club issues a guides’ tariff which fixes the charges See also: Outfitter
for guides and porters; there are three sections, for the Guides employed by those seeking to hunt wildlife, espe-
Valais and Vaudois Alps, for the Bernese Oberland, and cially big game animals in the wild. Hunting guides have
for central and eastern Switzerland. been important in many areas of the world, including the
In Chamonix (France) a statue has been raised to Jac- American west, the Adirondacks, and Africa, etc. Hunt-
ques Balmat, who was the first to climb Mont Blanc in ing guides in Africa of European descent are common-
1786. Other notable European guides are Auguste Balmat, ly referred to as White hunter, although this is becom-
Michel Cros, Maquignay, J. A. Carrel, who accompanied ing a less fashionable term these days, as in most African
Edward Whymper to the Andes, the brothers Lauener, countries today there are also native African "hunters"
Christian Almer and Jakob and Melchior Anderegg. or hunting guides.
Safari guide
Guides employed on safari, usually for "photographic sa-
faris", although the term can also refer to a "hunting
guide" or Professional Hunter. Safari guides who are self-
employed, working on their own account with their own
marketing and clientele (in contrast with those who
work for an employer) sometimes refer to themselves as
"professional safari guides".
Military guides and develop-
ment of Guides Regiments
In European wars up to the time of the French Revolu-
Adirondack guides (carrying and rowing guideboats on the Ra-
quette River, 1888 tion, the absence of large-scale detailed maps made lo-
cal guides almost essential to the direction of military
operations. In the 18th century the stricter organization
Wilderness guide of military resources led in various countries to the spe-
A wilderness guide is a person who takes a number of in- cial training of guide officers who had the primary duty
dividuals to visit some part of wilderness, such as forest, of finding, and if necessary establishing, routes across
bogs, hills, on or off marked paths, and ensure the safety country. In the history of the American west, Native
of the group while leading them through the wilderness Americans and mountain men were important in leading
which the guide has knowledge of. military units and settlers alike.
The first priority is the safety of the group, which is The genesis of the "Guides" regiments may be found
why wilderness guides are expected to have a command in a short-lived Corps of Guides formed by Napoleon in
of basic survival skills (such as making shelters, fire-mak- Italy in 1796, which appears to have been a personal es-
ing, hiking, orienteering and first-aid) as well as experi- cort or body guard composed of men who knew the coun-
ence in survival in extreme conditions and all seasons, try. Following the unification of Italy in 1870-71, the new
and how to deal with an emergency. The guide is also ex- national army included a regiment designated as Guides
pected to have a deep understanding of the nature of the - the 19th Cavalleggieri (Light Horse).
place he is guiding in, and able to answer questions of In the Belgian Army the two Guides regiments, creat-
the group concerning the local flora and fauna, ecology, ed respectively in 1833 and 1874, constituted part of the
geological morphology, as well as cultural history of the light cavalry and came to correspond to the Guard cav-
place visited.
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alry of other nations. Until the outbreak of World War
I, they wore a distinctive uniform comprising a plumed
busby, green dolman braided in yellow, and crimson
breeches. Mechanised in October 1937, both regiments
form armoured battalions in the modern Belgian Army.
In the Swiss army prior to 1914 the squadrons of
"Guides" acted as divisional cavalry. In this role these
light cavalry units were called upon, on occasion, to lead
columns.
The "Queen’s own Corps of Guides" of the British In-
dian Army consisted of a unique combination of infantry
companies and cavalry squadrons. After World War I the
infantry element was incorporated in the 12th Frontier
Force Regiment and the Guides Cavalry formed a sepa-
rate regiment - the 10th Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of
Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force).
In drill, a "guide" is an officer or non-commissioned
officer who regulates the direction and pace of move-
ments.
Guide - metaphysical meanings
Trip sitter
Main article: Trip sitter
A psychedelic guide is someone who guides a drug user’s
experiences as opposed to a sitter who merely remains
present, ready to discourage bad trips and handle emer-
Jim Bridger served as guide and army scout during the first
gencies but not otherwise getting involved. Guides are
Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne
more common amongst spiritual users of entheogens.
Psychedelic guides were strongly encouraged by Ti-
mothy Leary and the other authors of The Psychedelic Ex- References
perience: A Guide Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Trip
This article incorporates text from a publication now
sitters are also mentioned in the Responsible Drug User’s
in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Ency-
Oath.
clopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University
Press. Original text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Guided meditation
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