Guides & Tours in Morzine — 15 of Our Favourites

The one-kilometre pathway will take you through different enchanted set pieces where the story is told through the poetics of light, music, imagery, set design and interactivity. A travelling music-maker takes flight in his hot air balloon, spreading enchanted melodies throughout faraway lands. But a terrible storm is raging in the distance… Follow the traces of this whimsical character and join him on his quest. Let your senses guide you along your journey, and let yourself get lost in a world of amazement, where music is seen and light can be heard.

Open all year from dusk. for current times and prices, click on the website link.

Your off-piste lesson begins with a friendly meet-up at a convenient location in Morzine or the surrounding area, where you’ll chat through your goals for the day and review all the essential safety equipment needed for skiing beyond the marked pistes.

Before heading into the backcountry, your instructor will guide you through a thorough safety briefing. You’ll learn key avalanche protocols, practise transceiver checks, and understand how to plan a safe route based on current conditions. This solid foundation ensures you can enjoy the adventure with peace of mind.

Once on the mountain, you’ll explore off-piste terrain across Morzine and the wider Portes du Soleil that suits your ability. Your instructor will provide tailored coaching focused on freeride technique, helping you handle powder, steeper gradients, and variable snow with greater control and ease. Real-time tips and focused drills will help you progress quickly and confidently.

At the end of your session, you’ll review what you’ve achieved and receive personalised advice for developing your off-piste skills further, all while enjoying the stunning alpine landscapes that make Morzine such a fantastic place to ski.

Where to meet

• ⁠Avoriaz - At the top of the Prodain Express Cable Car on the snow. Outside Le Spot Cafe
• ⁠Morzine - At the top of the Pleney Cable Car on the snow
• ⁠Les Gets - At the top of the Chavannes Cable Car on the snow. Outside Le Yeti resterant

A full or half day with one of their experienced local guides all for yourself.

They don’t mix groups, so it would be just you and your friends or family, ensuring a day that will fit your level and wishes perfectly.

It can be a guiding only day, or you can opt to mix it with some skills practice. The choice is yours.

Prices are excluding bike rental, meals, lift passes, or insurance. The team will be more than happy to book your lift pass on your behalf, or help you rent bikes.

Once the skiing has finished and the slopes closed, some pistes are kept open for this fun activity!.

You will start from Avoriaz station and slide over 1000 metres downhill to ​Prodains. The professional and qualified instructors will make sure everyone is safe and has fun!

Please note that you will need a valid ski pass and your own helmet. You will be provided with the sledge and a head torch. 

This activity is only suitable for adults and children over the age of 14.

There are a lot of topics you can work on; body position, bike/suspension setup, braking, cornering (flat turns/berms), off camber, jumps, and more.

In order to have a good balance between exercises and riding, the instructors recommend a minimum of two hours per session.

Prices are excluding bike rental, meals, lift passes or insurance, but the team will be more than happy to book your lift pass or help you rent bikes.

Evolution 2 offers a range of guided trips for skiers, snowboarders and ski-tourers where you can explore the Portes du Soleil and further afield.

Follow your guide on a ski-mountaineering or ski-touring trip on a half day or full day outing.

Or if you're feeling more adventurous, let them take you from refuge to refuge in the Vallée Blanche of the Massif du Mont Blanc Chamonix, and Zermatt.

Explore off-piste with a fully qualified guide and all the necessary safety equipment and really see what the mountains have to offer!

An ideal activity to bring your family and friends together while getting closer to nature. Every trail is an adventure and they offer various trails and hikes around Morzine. Their qualified instructors will safely guide you to awesome sites and will share their knowledge about the area, the fauna and flora along the way.

Your instructor will lead the way whilst you enjoy the landscapes. It’s a refreshing way to escape and to forget about your everyday hustle and bustle.

Go off the beaten track, away from the pistes and discover remote parts of the mountain the forests, search for animal tracks and look for Chamois.

The activity takes place on the Dranse river and will last approximately two hours. You can be collected from Morzine or Avoriaz and taken to the start of the activity. There will be a maximum of 12 people per group.

You'll descend into the canyon in several ways - walking, jumping, swimming, abseiling, sliding, etc. This activity can be done during the summer months and is a fun activity for all the family and friends!

Canyoning is suitable for all abilities from the age of 12 upwards, however, you must be able to swim and have a reasonable level of fitness.

For families with children from 8 to 11 years old, you can take part in this activity in the easier Balme canyon next to Cluses (45 minutes drive from Morzine).

Wander through ancient beech woodland then descend 110 m via steps and bridges anchored in the rock and follow information panels explaining how glaciers and erosion sculpted the cliff faces. You might spot chamois and giant “giant’s cauldrons” swirling in the gorge below.

The site has welcomed visitors since 1893, when local joiner Jean Bochaton built staircases and walkways to give access to the river. By 1908 it was officially protected as a geological treasure. Since 2012 it's part of the UNESCO Chablais Geopark. In 2020 a glass viewpoint, the “Pas du Diable”, was added, this is a thrilling 50m high perch over the gorge.

Today you can enjoy a well-maintained, family-friendly route open from the end of March to the end of September every year. It's perfect whatever the weather warm and refreshing in summer, atmospheric in rain and very manageable for most visitors, aside from the steps and vertical drops.

You’ll finish with a rewarding return through the forest and perhaps a stop at the picnic area or visitor centre. With around 50,000 visitors each season, the site is lively yet never overcrowded: a friendly, unforgettable glimpse into the raw natural power visible in the Chablais region.

ESF Montriond Les Lindarets are the specialist ski and guiding school for Montriond, a little village just down the road from the centre of Morzine. At the base of the 'Les Lindarets' sector in the heart of the 'Portes du Soleil' ski area, Montriond/Les Lindarets is a fantastic location to start from for your ski guiding as you're just one chairlift away from Avoriaz, Châtel or Les Crozets. So if you're staying in Montriond, or even elsewhere in Morzine, you can easily access the whole 'Portes du Soleil' area.

Whether as part of a group or in private tuition, their guides will introduce you to some of their favourite off-piste places. Find fresh powder, see amazing scenery and enjoy getting away from the crowds as you explore the enormous terrain of the Portes du Soleil.

From experts to beginners, the guides will help you improve your technique and develop your confidence. They will take you to places that are suited to your ability and ensure that you have a memorable experience!

For those of you that really want to go off the beaten track - this ski school also offer ski-touring guides.

ESF Montriond are happy to offer specially adapted packages for single skiers, families and groups of friends. Tailor made programmes to suit you.

All their fully qualified instructors speak English and a variety of other languages.

Every Wednesday morning, you can take a free guided tour of Morzine’s fruitière, the village cheese dairy and watch how traditional local cheeses are made. The tour lasts around 30 minutes and gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the production process, with a chance to ask questions along the way. In season, you can also visit freely without a guide.

The dairy was revived in 1996 by Nicolas Baud and his team, who still make cheese here every day. You’ll see how they produce local favourites like Tomme, Abondance and Reblochon, which are all made with milk from the surrounding valley. Because Morzine lies within a protected AOP (Appellation d’Origine Protégée) zone, much of the cheese carries this quality label.

There is a shop next door, where you can taste and buy cheese to take home.

Bike hire and courses are available. Open daily in July and August for the summer season and throughout the winter for snow biking.

Call or send a message for prices and availability.

They have an open air sports activity park in the heart of the mountain forest, designed for any age group and any level of fitness. Have some fun at the tree top adventure park. With three different circuits consisting of ropes, cables, platforms and zip lines, you can swing from tree to tree. A great activity for adults and children alike.

Try canyoning and enjoy leaps and whoops along the mountain rocks, including an abseil down the beautiful Nyon waterfall. If you fancy something a little less wet then try your hand at Via Ferrata, climbing or even mountaineering.

Winter activities are also available.

Call for availability and prices.

Built in the First World War, Via Ferrata (translating to ‘Iron Road’) was once used as a mode of transport for the soldiers at war. Now a hundred years later, it is a free activity for hiking and climbing enthusiasts who are willing to brave the cliff for the beautiful views that it provides. Each step taking you up the small metal rungs which cling to the rock face.

Once we got to the car park in St Jean, the journey began with a 20 minute steep hike following the trail through the forest to reach the cliffs edge. With the climb itself then taking an average of around an hour and a half non-stop to complete, followed by a 30 minute even steeper hike back down, it was definitely a good work out! 

I stood there in the 30 degree heat in my harness and helmet, looking up at the 200 metres of vertical rock that I was about to climb. It is imperative for any climb to ensure that you have all of the correct equipment, so my climbing partner and I had rented ours for a half day from Intersport in Morzine for just 10 euros.

“Once you start..” my friend warned, “..there’s no going back.” Slightly nervous, I slipped on my gloves and clipped my harness to the metal cable that followed all the way up to the top. If you were to lose your footing you are attached at all times to the metal cable, so falling to oblivion is not an option. Instead if you were to fall, a thick piece of rope is released from your harness on impact and lets you drop five metres, acting as a shock absorber and although it may still hurt, you would be theoretically fine. Except you can only use this option once, after that there is no shock absorber – it just hurts. “What if I fall?” I called up to my climbing partner. “Just don’t fall.” He casually stated, already five metres up the cliff and counting.

Already feeling like my fitness levels were being tested from the hike, I stepped on the first metal rung clipping my harness to the highest point of the metal cable that my little arms could reach and began to climb up the steep rocky cliff. At first I worried that the continuous clipping of the two attachments on the harness to the metal cable would be a nuisance, but after a couple of metres you get into the routine of climbing, clipping, unclipping and admiring the view and I began to find it fairly easy. The trick is to always clip your harness to the next highest point of the rope that you can at all time and to check that you are clipped on securely before continuing to climb.

There are six levels of difficulty, from easy to extremely difficult. Feeling that that might be a bit much for my first time on the Via Ferrata, we opted for Level D, difficult. And although difficult, the views on the way up, if nothing else made the challenge all the more worthwhile.

As we climbed higher and higher up the vertical cliff we began to wonder who implements the metal rungs and hooks for the metal cable and how do they do it – risking their lives by hanging out an helicopter maybe or did they quite literally just climb the cliff and stabilize mini metal steps as they went along? It was at that point, at just over half way up, we came across the aerial walkway. A single, slim wooden beam that reached around two metres across to the other side of the rock, with only the metal cable to hold on to you walk across it. Maybe they made them with the helicopters after all. You would think this the scariest part of the climb, and for those who do not have the best relationship with heights to begin with, perhaps it would be. Yet I personally found it the most thrilling, giving you the best views from such a height – providing you also keep one eye on your feet as well!

With no rest stops available, I began to feel my arms weaken. Mixed with the heat and dehydration, each step up and pulling my body up action began to take its toll. I advise that if you were to complete this climb, then bring water, preferably in a container that you could clip to your clothes/harness so it is easily accessible whilst climbing. “Just 6 more parts, you’re almost there!” my climbing partner called down to me. I looked up and could see the tip of the top edge and climbed as fast, and accurately as I could, not underestimating any step, yet equally in a ferocious bid to reach the top and successfully finish the climb before my arms gave way.

When we reached the top, the amazing view was more than worth the journey to get to it. Adrenalin pumping and bodies aching, we sat down to take it all in. Each fear, shot of nerves and ‘don’t look down’ moment had been forgotten and all that was left was the eureka feeling of completing the climb, mixed with excitement at being ready to do it again – as soon as my arms recovered that is!

At the top of the mountain, with a plastic cup of champagne in hand, my climbing coach and I cheered to steep cliffs – and the people who set the set the routes on them, those guys deserve a raise!