Guide
     
 
A guide is a person who leads people through unknown or unmapped country, or conducts travellers and tourists through a place of interest.

Etymology:

The word "guide" was incorporated into (Middle) English via Old French "guider" which meant "to guide, lead, conduct" it was originally taken by Old French from Frankish "*witan" meaning "show the way" from Proto-Germanic "*wit-" meaning "to know". The French word influenced by Old Provencal "guidar" meaning "guide or leader" is from the same source.
 
 
 
Tour Guide:

A tour guide is a person who leads tourists or other travelers around a town, museum, or other tourist site, or on a longer tour along a fairly well established tourist circuit. Such a tour is called a "guided tour".

When the guide works at a particular location, such as a museum, they may be called a docent. and is often involved in providing entertaining, relevent, organised and themed Heritage interpretation. The role consists of leading groups of visitors around cultural or environmentaly significant places.


Tourist Guides may lead an individual or group as part of a package holiday. Included in the guiding, considerable importance is placed on the guide's capacity to have a good knowledge of local stories and local history. The position requires a person with patience and excellent communication skills, and involves public speaking.
 
Mountain Guide:

Mountain guides are those employed in mountaineering; these are not merely to show the way but stand in the position of professional climbers with an expert knowledge of rock and snowcraft, which they impart to the amateur, at the same time assuring the safety of the climbing party. This professional class of guides arose in the middle of the 19th century when Alpine climbing became recognized as a sport.

In Switzerland, the central committee of the Swiss Alpine Club issues a guides’ tariff which fixes the charges for guides and porters; there are three sections, for the Valais and Vaudois Alps, for the Bernese Oberland, and for central and eastern Switzerland.

In Chamonix (France)a statue has been raised to Jacques Balmat, who was the first to climb Mont Blanc in 1786. Other notable European guides are Auguste Balmat, Michel Cros, Maquignay, J. A. Carrel, who went with E. Whymper to the Andes, the brothers Lauener, Christian Almer and Jakob and Melchior Anderegg.
 
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