Ski
Touring Courses
Click one of the course levels below, to view
that category...
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Beginner
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To
select a suitable ski tour for your technical
and physical level, please visit our detailed
'Assessing
your Ski Level' website
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| Avalanche
Awareness |
| Can
you ever put a price on safety? No you can't,
but these days only cost £49!
The course takes place in the Chamonix valley,
and you are taught the use of avalanche tranceivers,
shovels, and probes. You also focus on avalanche
prediction, and construct snow pits. Led by
a British leader. |
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| Intro
Touring & Backcountry |
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teach you the skills for ski touring, these
coursess are a great preparation for anyone
considering a week long ski tour, who wants
to learn all the key skills, so they know
what they are letting themselves in for. They
also develop your off piste skiing techniques,
and are popular, so book early to ensure your
place. |
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| Bespoke
Guiding |
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you have specific objectives, consider bespoke
Guiding or tuition. We
provide Mountain Guides or International Mountain
Leaders by the day, as well as running our
wide range of scheduled courses and expeditions
in summer and winter. |
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Before
considering any of our ski tours, please note
that all of our ski touring courses are, by
default, off piste. As a minimum technical
ski level you will be able to ski anything
on piste (competant on blacks / double blacks
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You have skied a minimum of two weeks off
piste, but your ambition is to improve and
get good instruction. People should have skied
at least a one week off piste course, and
have another week of off piste experience.
Previous touring experience is not required,
as these courses teach the key skills, but
sometimes people have a day or two of touring
experience. |
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Intermediate
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To
select a suitable ski tour for your technical
and physical level, please visit our detailed
'Assessing
your Ski Level' website
page. |
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| Silvretta
Ski Tour |
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Silvretta Alps on the Austria / Switzerland
border, boasts lots of 3000m peaks, so is
an ideal choice for those wanting to bag some
peaks. The terrain is idea for intermediate
level ski tourers, and the huts are amazing
as they are infamous for their great food
and hot showers! Our tour starts in the Ischgl
valley. |
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| Kebnekaise
Lapland Tour |
| This
is a very remote ski tour in the Swedish area
of Lapland, very close to the border with
Norway. The tour makes a circuit called the
Kebnekaise Haute Route, and it takes in the
summit of Kebnekaise 2111m, the highest peak
in Sweden. Nights are mainly spent in remote
mountain lodges in the Kebnekaise area. |
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| Ski
Summit Tour Weekend |
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confirmed ski tourers, this weekend is for
those who can't get the time off work for
a full week ski tour (or for those cramming
in another tour in the winter!), to ascend
to a hut on the Saturday, then on the Sunday
to reach a ski touring summit and to ski back
down a different route to the valley floor
again. A brilliant weekend. |
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| Haute
Route Ski Tour |
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one week, you make this famous traverse between
Chamonix and Zermatt on skis. The skiers route
goes from hut to hut each day, with a night
in a hotel in Arolla at the half way point
to freshen up. The final day takes you skiing
past the mighty North Face of the Matterhorn
& into Zermatt. |
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should be fairly confident of safely coping
with most types of conditions off piste, but
you are still a little bit unsure of steeper
slopes and difficult off piste conditions
(but are happy to ski them!). You want to
improve your techniques and skiing style.
You will have skied between two weeks and
a season off piste and touring experience
should be of between a couple of days and
a week minimum. |
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Improver
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To
select a suitable ski tour for your technical
and physical level, please visit our detailed
'Assessing
your Ski Level' website
page. |
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| Otztal
Ski Tour du Vent |
| An
amazing tour of the 3000m peaks surrounding
the Austrian village of Vent. You ski over
the point where the famous iceman was discovered
on the Austria - Italy border. Six days of
touring, with five nights spent in mountain
huts. This tour will appeal to those who have
done classic tours such as the Haute route. |
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| Oberland
Ski Tour |
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ascend the mountain railway up the Eiger to
reach the top at Junfraujoch, then spend the
week enjoying amazing ski descents and taking
in a few summits on the way. The touring is
in great scenary, and you are surrounded by
4000m peaks. The final day you ski down to
Munster then Grindlewald. |
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Monte
Rosa
Ski Tour |
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tour starts and ends in Zermatt, and tackles
the largest land area above 4000m in the Alps
- the Monte Rosa. On the first day you take
in the summit of Breithorn, then over the
next days you traverse around the peak in
an anti-clockwise circuit, with the amazing
final run down to Zermatt on the last day. |
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| Gran
Paradiso Ski Tour |
| A
week ski mountaineering in the Gran Paradiso
national park and to the summit. For
those of you who want to combine skiing and
summits, this course is ideal. The summit
of Gran Paradiso is 4061m, and over the week
you make a complete tour of this remote 4000m
peak in the Italian Alps. |
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this level you will cope with breakable crust
/ crud, icy sections, very deep powder, spring
snow and of course speed! Several weeks off
piste skiing will be the minimum experience
for this level. Your touring experience should
be at least two weeks of hut to hut ski tours,
or one week of hut to hut tours and over ten
day ski tours. |
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Advanced
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To
select a suitable ski tour for your technical
and physical level, please visit our detailed
'Assessing
your Ski Level' website
page. |
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| Mont
Blanc 4810m on skis |
| Reserved
for strong ski tourers in May or early June,
over a period of a week. This tour requires
a very high level of fitness and determination,
and the ascent is normally by the
Grand Mulets or Cosmiques Traverse routes
to the summit. If you are a very strong skier,
a descent of the North Face of Mont Blanc
may be possible. |
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| Bespoke
Guiding |
| If
you have specific objectives, consider bespoke
Guiding or tuition. We
provide Mountain Guides or International Mountain
Leaders by the day, as well as running our
wide range of scheduled courses and expeditions
in summer and winter. |
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should not be put off by any off piste conditions,
and be keen to ski any route that the Guide
judges safe, in a controlled and stylish fashion.
Even at this level our Guiding team will be
able to give you tips & advice to improve.
Your off piste skiing skills should be as
above, but touring should be greater than
that required at level in the Improver paragraph
above. |
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