Ice climbing courses

Usually an extension course, over the course of which you become a lead climber on ice. Ice climbing has modernized so much over the last quarter-century that it now forms its own separate mountaineering discipline. In our course you'll learn the basic rules of belaying and building anchors on ice. You'll train the specifics of ice climbing movement. You'll practice how a climbing team moves through multi-pitch ice routes. You'll learn to rappel, including as an emergency retreat from a route. We'll also pay a lot of attention to the basics of avalanche awareness and the temperature gradient in relation to changes in ice strength. You'll discover a new dimension of the beauty of mountaineering, and find out that we can take nice photos or videos even when it's freezing.

We also run ice climbing as introductory courses for non-climbers. The rental of all necessary gear is included in the course price.