Winter Climbing
Basic Winter Skills
If you are a summer mountain walker and wish to explore the challenging and harsh winter mountains this course is for you. Learn how to use crampons and ice axe and develop essential skills such as navigation, avalanche assessment and emergency shelter construction. This course will help you to enjoy and to survive this fantastic and savage arena for yourself.
Staff ratio: 1 instructor to 6 participants
Duration: 3 days
Intermediate Winter Mountaineering
This course refreshes all the aspects of the basic mountaineering skills course, whilst focusing on elementary rope work skills, snow pack evaluation, and the creation of basic snow, ice and rock anchors to safeguard you on the classic gullies and ridges some of Britain’s finest Peaks.
Staff ratio: 1 instructor to 6 participants
Duration: 3 days
Winter Climbing
The basis of this course is to give you the opportunity to lead in winter conditions and leave with the knowledge to do so. Aimed at rock climbers and Mountaineers who wish to embrace possibly the most physically demanding and mentally challenging aspect of the sport.
This course covers the technical rope work and specific equipment involved in long winter climbs and descents. We’ll give you expert guidance on using bulldogs, warthogs, abolokov threads, nuts, cams, pegs, dead men, snow and ice bollards and the like. Winter Skills such as avalanche awareness, snow pack evaluation, navigation and ice axe and crampon technique will also be included. Your seasoned and experienced instructor will tailor the course to your aspirations and the prevailing weather conditions.
Staff ratio: 1 instructor to 4 participants
Duration: 4 days
Winter Climbing (Guided)
We lead and organize the days climbing while you enjoy the mountains, taking in the scenery savouring each step focusing on the route. With the emphasis on you climbing rather than instruction, enjoy the experience of topping out on classic winter mountain routes whilst you relax and climb with your instructor.
An experience to remember tailored to you aspirations and abilities, weather and prevailing conditions are dependant.
Staff ratio: 1 instructor to 2 climbers
Duration: Variable