winter mountaineering

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By Tania Navarro posted on 20 October 2011 | Reading time: 4 Minutes | Last update 20 October 2011

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Climbing has several aspects among which you can find winter mountaineering. It is a practice as interesting as it is daring. Do you dare to take a course?

What do adventure sports offer you? Experience unique sensations and experience intense emotions that would otherwise be impossible. Any season is ideal to practice this type of sports, but depending on the season of the year we are in, certain practices may be more appropriate

When autumn finishes settling in our country and with the arrival of winter the first snow begins to fall, not only can you start practice winter sports, but you can also find other options to live interesting adventures and discover the mountain as you have never known it before.

We know that climbing is a sport of self-improvement, in which the effort to go further and further is one of the incentives for those they practice it. One of the variants of climbing, which straddles the same, the trekking and even the cross-country skiing is winter mountaineering.

Mountaineering is related to all those activities carried out in the high mountains, whether ascents or climbs. Therefore, the best thing you can do if you like this world is to take a course to delve deeper into it and get all the techniques you need to be able to enjoy this activity to the fullest.

Winter mountaineering courses

Mountaineering in the high mountains is one of the most interesting options for active tourism: you get in touch with nature and fight boredom.

If you take a winter mountaineering course you will be able to acquire all the knowledge, both technical and tactical, to carry out an ascent in snowy terrain of certain difficulty. But yes, these courses are aimed at people who already have experience in this type of activities, since you need to be in possession of the title of Winter Mountaineering Techniques.

Thanks to the course you will be able to have all the necessary autonomy to be able to carry out expeditions with increasingly complex ascents.

What does the winter mountaineering course consist of?

You can find two levels of teaching, but between them the basic techniques of both progression, protection and protection are developed. self-definition, in addition to knowledge of the material that must be used to carry out the activity.

Content:

Basic mountaineering material and equipment
Self-arrest practice
Progression techniques with crampons and ice ax
Stringing and basic knots
Basic insurance

What is included in the courses? In general, although it depends on the company with which you are going to do it, all the necessary safety material, mountain guide, instructor, accident and civil liability insurance, among others, should be included.