Skills
Route Finding and Navigation for Mountaineering
Learn important route-finding and navigation skills to help you stay on course and travel efficiently up a mountain.
Mountaineering Skills
Articles: 7
In addition to its physical demands, mountaineering requires a broad range of specific skills. Designed to complement training classes taught by experienced mountaineers, this series covers navigation, snow travel, using an ice axe and crampons, rope-travel, building snow anchors and the general steps to take when doing a crevasse rescue.
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Snow Travel Techniques for Mountaineering
Learn a foundational skill of mountaineering: How to ascend and descend efficiently on snow.
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How to Use an Ice Axe for Mountaineering
An ice axe is an essential tool for mountaineering. Learn when and how to use it to stay in balance and self-arrest when you fall.
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How to Use Crampons
Crampons are a crucial traction device for walking on firm snow and ice. Learn when and how to use them properly.
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Glacier and Roped Travel for Mountaineering
Learn how to rope up to travel as a team as you cross a glacier or a steep snow slope.
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Snow Anchors for Mountaineering
Learn about the common snow anchors you'd use when traveling on a glacier, crossing steep slopes, or to aid in crevasse rescues.
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Crevasse Rescue Skills
Learn essential mountaineering rescue skills: team arrest, crevasse self-rescue and how to haul others out of a crevasse.