National School of Skiing and Mountaineering

The National School of Skiing and Mountaineering, in Chamonix

The National School of Skiing and Mountaineering is a prestigious institution of Chamonix, which trains mountain guides and instructors. The Chamonix audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this high place of mountain teaching, a pride of the capital of mountaineering.

The school that trains the mountain guides

The National School of Skiing and Mountaineering, known by the acronym ENSA, is an emblematic institution of Chamonix and a world reference in its field. Created in the middle of the twentieth century, its mission is to train the professionals of the mountain: high-mountain guides, ski instructors and leaders, who must follow a demanding course to exercise their profession. Located in Chamonix, the cradle of mountaineering and the theatre of the first great ascents, the school perpetuates a long tradition of excellence and mountain know-how. It contributes to the influence of the town as the world capital of mountaineering and the guarantor of safety in the mountain. The National School of Skiing and Mountaineering is a pride and a major institution of Chamonix.

What to see

Here you discover the emblematic institution, known by the acronym ENSA, which trains since the middle of the twentieth century the high-mountain guides and ski instructors at the end of a demanding course, a world reference perpetuating the tradition of excellence of Chamonix, the cradle of mountaineering. The National School of Skiing and Mountaineering is a pride of Chamonix. It is a stop for mountain enthusiasts, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The National School of Skiing and Mountaineering lies in Chamonix, reachable on foot. It is a training establishment whose access follows its own uses; you admire the building from outside. You discover it during a walk in the town.

What does the National School of Skiing and Mountaineering train in Chamonix?

The professionals of the mountain: high-mountain guides, ski instructors and leaders, at the end of a demanding course; known by the acronym ENSA, it is a world reference created in the middle of the twentieth century.

Where is the National School of Skiing and Mountaineering?

In Chamonix, in the Mont Blanc valley, in France.