School for International Expedition Training

The School for International Expedition Training, also known as SIET, are a nonprofit mountaineering school dedicated to providing risk management, technical, and leadership training to aspiring mountain guides, outdoor educators, and mountaineers. The SIET team is staffed with highly experienced, professional instructors who have extensive backgrounds in experiential education, mountain guiding and personal expeditions. The instructors have earned their excellent reputations from their advanced technical skills, understanding of, and ability to teach risk management, years of experience and success teaching, in-depth and current knowledge of industry standards and of course, a deep passion for international mountaineering. SIET does not focus just on getting students to the summit, they focus on giving students the skills they need to lead future attempts on summits of their own for the rest of their lives.