Mountaineering • Getting started • Your first mountain • Skills & techniques • Doing your TMC • Fitness • Food & nutrition • Equipment overview • Climb preparation • Gear check list • Joining an expedition • The effects of altitude • Navigation • Safety & first aid • Further reading • Trip research

Mountaineering
Skills & techniques

Mountaineering requires that participants acquire a very specific set of skills in order to operate safely and efficiently. These skills are best taught by qualified mountaineering instructors through a recognised Technical Mountaineering Course.

Some of the mountain climbing techniques and skills needed are:

• Knots & hitches
• Weather observation skills
• Mountain terrain identification
• Glacier travel
• Crevasse rescue
• Snow & ice climbing
• Belay techniques and systems

• • Roping up for glacier travel • Crevasse Rescue - Pt 1 • Crevasse Rescue - Pt 2 • Crevasse Rescue - Pt 3 • Crevasse Rescue - Pt 4 • Crevasse Rescue - Pt 5 • Self arrest • Fitness Training

  Attaching to anchors
• Crampon techniques
• Ice belays
• Snow belays
• Self arrest
  
• Abseiling
• Moving together as a group
• Alpine rock skills
• Rope techniques
• Avalanche awareness
• Mountaineering first aid
• Building snow shelter

Technical Mountaineering Courses

We have recently become affiliated with Adrenalin, one of Australia's premier adventure companies and can now refer you to a recognised Technical Mountaineering Course based in New Zealand's Mount Cook Region. This Technical Mountaineering Course can provide the necessary training for you to climb mountains safely and efficiently under the instruction of fully qualified mountain guides and instructors. After completing a TMC not only will you have the skills and confidence to climb mountains anywhere in the world, but the course itself will give you a fair indication as to whether you would like to pursue mountaineering long term. Either way, a TMC is a great adventure experience in it's own right.

Doing your TMC >