Multi-day crews in the desert towers, sandstone caves and sea cliffs we know best. Small groups, real guides, and a trip you'll talk about for years.
We’re an adventure travel expedition club and academy, guiding small crews since 2010. We climb, surf, ski and hike in the wild places we love, and we teach the whole way, because the best trips change how you see a place and how you show up in it.
Guided multi-day Explorers and international Expeditions, built on our own Expedition Impact curriculum. We handle the logistics, the gear, Camp Zero and the camp kitchen, so you can focus on the rock, the waves, the snow and the people.
Guides, teachers and travelers out of Boston, led by founder Austin O’Brien, who has guided since 2007, working side by side with local guides wherever we go. A crew that climbs hard and still stops to smell the flowers.
To create impactful experiences where conversing with the environment comes first, and to send you home a better traveler, a stronger climber and a steward of the places you visit.
Explorers keep you in North America for a long weekend on world-class rock. Expeditions cross an ocean for a week or more. Both are built around the same idea: slow down, listen to the place, and climb better because of it.
A four-day crew trip to a legendary US crag. We handle the camp, the gear list, the beta and the coaching. You show up ready to climb.
A week or more abroad with local guides, cultural time and the Expedition Impact course woven in. Planned with you one-on-one from the first call.
Perfect Wingate splitters in the Utah desert. Hand cracks, taping, cams, and desert storms rolling over the towers.
Steep, pocketed sandstone in the Kentucky hardwoods. Big jugs, long pumpy sport lines and rhododendron tunnels on the approach.
Desert granite in the cool season. Friction slabs, splitter cracks, scrambles to summit blocks and real dark-sky nights.
Classic White Mountain sport climbing on Rumney schist, with Camp Zero a short walk from the cliffs and rides up from Boston.
Granite sea cliffs where the Maine woods meet the Atlantic. Otter Cliffs, the Precipice and sunrise on Cadillac Mountain.
Japow season in Western Hokkaido. Deep, light powder, birch glades, onsen soaks and late-night ramen, guided by certified IFMGA and JMGA guides with Yuki Homes stays. Five departures this winter, from front-country powder days to remote backcountry.
On the table. Ramen bar lunches at the ski lodge, onsen soaks before dinner and nights out at local restaurants and izakayas we book for you. Breakfast is early and hearty so you’re fed and on the lift for first tracks.
Prices are single occupancy. Double occupancy on request.
See full trip →Volcanic crags in the Andes, the Papallacta hot springs, and a day planting native trees to regrow a fire-scarred forest in Tangan.
On the table. Farm life starts at the Tangan hacienda: home-cooked meals made with what grows on the land, Andean soups after a day on volcanic rock, and fresh fruit from the market. We open with a welcome dinner and close with a farewell feast in Quito.
A sport climbing workshop on the Croatian coast. Single-pitch limestone above the Adriatic, swims after sessions, and a big step up for gym climbers.
On the table. Market runs in Split and Hvar, a welcome dinner at Fife, camp dinners cooked at Clifbase above the sea, and an optional olive and wine tour on Hvar. The last night is a farewell dinner at the Secret Castle.
Seven days of Rocklands and Cederberg sandstone in South Africa with local guides. Add a Kruger safari, a Jeffreys Bay surf week, or both.
On the table. Braais are the heartbeat of this trip: a welcome braai in the Cederberg, a farewell braai under the Rocklands stars, and catered meals at our cottages in between. Rooibos country means plenty of tea, too.
Sport climbing on volcanic rock, surf sessions on the Atlantic and a volcanic coastline to explore in the Canary Islands.
On the table. Villa dinners at sunset after surf and climb days, Canarian classics like papas arrugadas with mojo sauce, and local wine from the island’s volcanic vineyards. We cook together and eat out where the locals do.
Chasing the Aegean: island climbing, the sea and Greek island life. Our next international expedition is in the works.
On the table. Harbor tavernas, island olive oil, grilled fish and long Aegean dinners after climbing. The full food plan is coming with the itinerary.
Ten days of warm water and consistent swell from AK’s Surf Lodge near Krui. Reef and beach breaks for every level, daily coaching with video analysis, Sumatran food and time to give back to the local community.
On the table. Three meals a day at AK’s Surf Lodge, starting with a welcome dinner of South Sumatran food. Afternoons can mean fishing trips, and evenings are long tables at the lodge swapping wave stories.
Every Explorer and Expedition runs on our Expedition Impact course. It's how we turn a climbing trip into a conversation with a place: its rock, its people, its weather and what we leave behind.
You come home a stronger climber and a better traveler.
Every spot we guide, pinned. Spin the globe, pick a place and read the impact knowledge: a few facts about its cultural and natural history, plus what our crews said after.
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Newsletters, trip stories and letters from the field. Grab a coffee.
A first trip to Hokkaido with IFMGA guide Amos Whiting and local legend Mako: snorkel-deep laps off the back of Kiroro, a first onsen, and a karaoke night with salarymen that did not set anyone up for day three.
We were greeted by my absolute homie and IFMGA guide Amos Whiting and local legend Mako with big smiles at the airport, then headed to Otaru.
Overlooking the Otaru canals in a snowglobe, totally unaware of what actual time it was, but just totally stoked cause I’m in Japan, I have a nice highball, and it’s ripping snow.
We got after it at Kiroro the next day… we did 4 laps after that off the back in some wild zone Mako-san showed us. Every lap we needed a snorkel.
— Austin O’Brien
We’re back and firing on all cylinders: the Explorer Series launches, plus new partnerships with Bouldering Project and Wellness Blueprint.
After time away for kids and family life, Austin announces Wildkine is officially back, with the five-camp Explorer Series and a lineup of 2027 Expeditions.
I’ve missed this, the community, and the specific kind of stoke that only happens when you’re out in the wild with great people. Well, I’m thrilled to share that we are officially back.
— Stay stoked, Austin O’Brien
From plastic holds to real rock. The workshop that teaches gym climbers to become self-sufficient outdoor sport climbers.
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Subscribe →Founder of Wildkine and guiding climbing, surf, ski and hiking trips since 2007. Austin leads the crews and writes the Expedition Impact curriculum.
I had an excellent time, learned more than I thought I would, and sent some climbs I never imagined I could.