Custom Date: 2-Day Crevasse Rescue Course

Group Size

6 people per guide

Duration

2 days

COVID-19 policy

Program Overview

Thank you for choosing Access the Alpine for a Crevasse Rescue Course!

Our crevasse rescue course is a MUST-HAVE for any adventurer seeking to explore mountainous terrain safely. You will learn crucial skills to save yourself or a team member if they fall into a crevasse. Our experienced guides will teach you rope and anchor systems, pulley systems, and other specialized techniques that may mean the difference between life and death in a high-altitude emergency. You will practice these skills in a simulated environment, receiving feedback and personalized attention from our instructors.

Curriculum

This two-day private crevasse rescue course covers navigation on glaciers, learning how to travel properly roped up, and identifying crevasse hazards. Participants will learn and practice basic techniques for self-arrest, rope team travel, and hauling systems to extricate individuals from crevasses as well as advanced rigging and rescue techniques. The course also includes a review of snow anchors, knots, belaying, and risk management. Students will have practical sessions to simulate rescuing a team from a crevasse and applying the necessary techniques. The objective of the course is to equip participants with the requisite skills to readily tackle crevasse-ridden winter travel.

Itinerary

Day 0: Zoom chat which addresses needed equipment, necessary training, and any other topics of interest before going into the course.

Day 1:

• Meet at the trailhead and hike to high camp

• Lunch at high camp and introduction to mountaineering gear

• Practice holding and self-arrest techniques

• Crevasse rescue theory and demonstration

• Dinner and discussion of the day's activities

Day 2:

• Breakfast and preparation for a glacier travel

• Introduction to rope teams and glacier travel

• Crevasse rescue practice with rope team

• Lunch and discussion of the morning's activities

• Advanced crevasse rescue techniques and self rescue

• Return to high camp and pack up