Mountain skills
5 days course
2nd - 7th July 2020
The main goal of this recreational course is to teach you the mountain skills needed for you to enjoy the mountains in the future with friends in a safe environment.
What is included:
- 5 days guided course thought by a member of the AIMG glacier guide certified guide
- transportation by boat to reach the wild area of the course
- expedition food and cooking gear (such as stove, pots, gas…)
- 2 nights in a mountain hut
- expedition tents
- polar bear deterrent
- sat phone
- a document at the end of the course to be added on your CV
Dates: July 2020
Participants: max 6
Price: 1.500 euro per person
Topics covered in the course
- knowledge of the gear (slings, ice screws, crampons, ropes…)
- basic mountaineering knots
- descending/ ascending a rope
- ice anchor and snow anchors
- crevasse rescue and rope work (in different scenarios)
- glaciology and crevasse patterns
- hard ice movement vs snow cover glacier movement
- route selection and navigation
- camping in the wilderness on a snow covered glacier