Our Scottish Winter Mountaineering Skills Course will take your Winter Walking to the next level! As well as recapping the basic winter skills we’ll introduce the basic rope work skills. If you’ve mastered these and are keen then we’ll get onto steeper ground and do some classic routes, with a mix of guiding and teaching. How independent you feel at the end of the course depends on what your skills are prior to the course and how long you spend with us, so you may want to consider a summer rock climbing or scrambling course beforehand.
Typical routes we may do include Curved Ridge, The Aonach Eagach, Ledge Route, Dorsal Arete – those routes and many more will be our intended learning grounds!
Scottish Winter Mountaineering Course
Perhaps you’ve got bigger objectives in mind and want to practise fixed line work or want some Alpine prep such as crevasse rescue, we can look at a massive range of skills throughout your time with us.
We base these courses on the West Coast so we’ll have Glencoe and Ben Nevis on the doorstep – we have a lifetimes worth of adventures to choose from here in a location where we can make the best of the snow and weather conditions, and great low level teaching venues as well as the impressive big routes!
Dates and Prices
Non residential, based on a minimum of 2 people attending.
2, 3 and 5 day course options – £250pd maximum ratio 1:2
Dates available between: January 15th and March 20th
Wanting to take up from Mountaineering and become an all round Winter Climber? Have a look at our Winter Climbing courses!
Why come on a Winter Mountaineering Course with us?
Run by a fully qualified WMCI and full member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors, you are assured the highest qualified, most experienced and professional Mountaineering Instructors – experts at the top of their game… We work on National Governing Body award courses, meaning we train the trainers if you like.. A lifetime in the Mountains throughout 6 of the Earth’s Continents has given us a deep passion and understanding of the skills you need to be safe and have fun out there – and we love enabling others to do what we do!
