Mountain Mentors

WHO WE ARE A community committed to self-development and support, in the backcountry* and beyond OUR VISION Backcountry* spaces where everyone belongs and feels safe WHAT WE DO Mountain Mentors facilitates one-on-one mentorship. Each season, we pair mentees and mentors and provide the programming necessary to empower pairs to define their intentions and objectives and to experience growth. In addition to one-on-one mentorships, at the heart of what we do is community. Our program offerings seek to energize, deepen, strengthen, and grow community both in our cohort and broader outdoors community. WE OFFER PROGRAMMING TO… Mountain Mentors serves individuals who are committed to growth and skill development, in the backcountry and beyond. Our programming is offered to marginalized genders including women, women-identifying individuals, and non-binary and gender non-conforming people who are comfortable in a space that centers the experiences of women in the outdoors. We recognize and acknowledge the intersection of race and gender identities and it is our hope that we can provide programming that is inclusive and accessible. Mountain Mentors serves communities in Greater Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton. We acknowledge that we operate on the ancestral and unceded lands of kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), St̓át̓imc Tmicw (St’at’imc), and Líl̓wat (Lil'wat) Peoples. For an understanding of the geographic areas of these lands, please visit native-land.ca. This acknowledgement is not an endpoint but rather a starting place for our reflection of the history of this land and of the places we learn, recreate, and are in relationship on.