Winter survival skills and basic movement: avoid getting lost, falling or exhausted, and get yourself down.
Separate from avalanche training, this course teaches self-reliant skills to prevent getting lost, falling, losing the route or becoming unable to move from exhaustion, and to get down safely.
- Energy-saving movement: body use and pole work for long days
- Climbing technique: uphill and downhill kick turns, traverses, boot-packing with skis on the pack
- Emergency shelter: snow caves and snow mounds
- Bivouac: fast pitching of an emergency tent
- Carrying: moving a casualty, pack carry, chain-cross method
- Rope work: hauling systems, basics of rope rescue
- Bring: full winter mountain kit (required); emergency tent, rope, carabiners (recommended). Skis or snowshoes needed.
Arrange your own mountain and liability insurance. Insurance is not included in the fee.
Take out mountain and liability insurance before taking part. Accident and injury insurance is not included in the fee.
Mountain areas carry natural risks such as bad weather, rockfall, collapse and avalanches that cannot be fully removed. I understand that I take part with these risks, with my own and my family's consent.
The course may be changed, cancelled or postponed because of weather or other force majeure.
I will follow the organizer's decisions and instructions on site.
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