Legal basis: §§ 3(1)Z 1, 4 and 13 Salzburger Bergsportführergesetz (Salzburg Mountaineering Guide Law), LGBl Nr 24/2011
An alpine guide is a person that provides his/her services in return for payment as a guide or an escort for mountain trips and for the training of people in alpine areas. Skiing tours are also regarded as mountain trips. Alpine areas are areas which require specific mountaineering knowledge and technical skills for hiking due to their objective hazards (e.g. danger of slipping and falling, loss of orientation, danger of avalanches). Classified as alpine areas are in any case glaciated areas as well as areas with an alpine difficulty level or areas where mountaineering safety equipment is used on existing or new routes.