We are proud to say that The Peak is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned and operated small business headquartered in beautiful Southwest Montana. Since 2005, we have been providing world-class training to the people who live, work, and play in the outdoors. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds including military special operations, wilderness professionals, and outdoor enthusiasts.

Rod Alne, a retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant with over 27 years in Pararescue, started The Peak in 2005 to address shortfalls in military training. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Rod was one of the first Americans deployed to Afghanistan. At that time, a small percentage of U.S. forces were trained to conduct mountain warfare. In fact, other than the special operations members that were mountaineering enthusiasts, no one really had an idea how difficult and dangerous it was to operate in a high-altitude mountainous environment. When Rod retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2005, he decided to take the knowledge he gained from three decades of mountaineering and create a program that would pass on his mountaineering and wilderness travels skills. A friend convinced him to move to Butte, Montana and the Peak was born.

Initially, because of Rod’s extensive experience with Air Force Special Operations, the majority of our clients were from various military special operations units. Soon after, we began getting calls from wilderness professionals who, as part of their jobs, had to travel in the outdoors. Today, we are still very connected to our friends in military special operations but now we work with people from all walks-of-life. Our students are members of the community learning CPR, college students from our accredited Wilderness Preparation course, research institutions studying high altitude acclimatization and physiology, law enforcement/public safety, outdoor enthusiasts, and managers looking for corporate leadership programs that are a little more challenging.

Undoubtedly, the biggest factor in our success is the quality of people we have on our instructor team. Each and every one continually strives to become experts in their respective fields. We seek out only the best, brightest, and most passionate people to add to The Peak team in order to provide you the most up-to-date and relevant curriculum.

Although we believe Southwest Montana is an ideal location for most of our courses, our instructor team can come to your location or the locations of your choice and conduct training. All of our courses are easily tailored and customized for your specific requirements. Based on your needs, we will develop a training schedule and adapt our curriculum to what you want, not just what we offer. We also maintain agreements with various equipment and gear manufacturers in order to offer our clients quality gear at reasonable prices. Currently we are distributors for Black Diamond, Mammut, Yates, NRS, and Darn Tough.

Since 2005, we have been maximizing the performance of military special operations units, wilderness professionals, and outdoor enthusiasts in the environments “Where Performance Matters.”