Get started in the winter mountains with Jordi Tosas. Use the ice axe and crampons correctly during the ascent and know the self-arrest techniques on the descent. Improve your sports performance and understand all the mountain safety techniques.
Know everything related to the safety provided by the ice axe and crampons.
We will analyze the different types, as well as which ones are best suited to your activity. Also how to do proper maintenance and the most common mistakes that end in an accident.
The different progression techniques with crampons depending on the slope and self-arrest techniques with ice axes, poles and without anything.
Finally, we will give you several tricks that will make you enjoy the mountain more.
This course is part of the course pack:
–Mountaineering Pack – All winter mountain
Get the whole pack at the best price with all the essential knowledge of alpinism and winter mountaineering.
This course is aimed at all those mountaineers who want to know or validate the key concepts to safely enter the world of winter mountains.
All the knowledge of the mid-mountain that has been developed in the different courses of the pack “The 5 keys to hiking” are taken for granted, which are essential to climb snow-capped mountains or expand knowledge in any of the fields of mountaineering.
Mountaineering LEVEL 1 - Initiation to winter mountain
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Mountaineering 1. What you WILL find in this courseA summary that focuses the objectives, agenda of the course and the possible previous and subsequent knowledge that you can do with us |
2 min. |
| 2 |  |
Types of CRAMPONS, light, automatic, rigid, straps…All types of crampons, which ones are useful and which ones are not for the activity we want to carry out. There are 3 factors that we must take into account. |
8 min. |
| 3 |  |
Avoid ACCIDENTS with cramponsAdjusting the straps and wearing an antiboot will be key to avoiding many accidents with crampons. |
2 min. |
| 4 |  |
Importance of the ANTIBOOT for cramponsThe importance of antiboot and the consequences of some homemade tricks |
3 min. |
| 5 |  |
How to MAINTAIN my cramponsAll material wears out over time. Maintaining it will be essential to extend its useful life. |
5 min. |
| 6 |  |
Types of ice axes, technicians, mountaineering, traverse…There are 3 elements that characterize the ice axes, choosing the most appropriate will depend on the activity that we want to carry out. |
7 min. |
| 7 |  |
How to MAINTAIN my ice axCorrectly filing the ice ax and maintaining it well will allow us to get more out of it. |
5 min. |
| 8 |  |
Reflection on CARRYING TIED the ice axCarrying the ice ax tied has advantages and disadvantages. Before making a decision we must assess the consequences. |
3 min. |
| 9 |  |
Walking with crampons, FRENCH TECHNIQUE of progressionTo make a correct progression using the French technique, we will need to nail all the tips and align the stride with our center of gravity. |
4 minutes |
| 10 |  |
Walking with crampons, OTHER progression TECHNIQUESThere are 2 alternative progression techniques that we can also use on climbs. |
1 min. |
| 11 |  |
SELF ARREST with ice ax, stop in a fallOur reaction in the first second of the fall will be decisive for the outcome. Having the ice ax in the correct position can save our lives. |
2 min. |
| 12 |  |
EXAMPLES of self-arrest with ice axAssimilate and automate the stop systems according to the initial position of fall will be essential to self-stop. |
3 min. |
| 13 |  |
SELF-STOP without ice ax, you can also stopShould we use crampons to break a fall? Nailing the crampons will not be a good idea. On the contrary, we must help ourselves with the canes. |
4 minutes |
| 14 |  |
Some ESSENTIAL TRICKS on the snowy mountainGet to know the tricks for storing material that will allow you to gain speed and comfort. |
5 min. |
| 15 |  |
TEST, validates everything learnedEvaluate for yourself if you have correctly understood all the theory |
10 min. |
Our Staff is made up of professionals with proven experience that will pass on all their years of knowledge to you in a 100% flexible format.
We also rely on collaborators and commercial international brands to provide us with their technical knowledge.
Mountaineering 2 Snow Couloir
