Alpine Climbing Advanced
It's time to get serious!
Multi-rope - climbing long rock routes
Ortovox Safety Academy
Description

You are able to climb V class walls in your gym but you would like to face mountain?
In this course, you will learn all the hooking up techniques needed to deal autonomously with multipitch routes.
In this two days course, we will teach you how to prepare anchors and the main hooking up techniques, and all the necessary know-how to safely climb the most challenging and demanding walls in the Alps.

Requirements
Basic knowledge from ALPINE CLIMBING Basic or other sport climbing course, mastery of important belaying and knot techniques for single-rope routes, experience of lead climbing on alpine faces (difficulty level Ill-IV), good fitness (for 1-2 hours of climbing).

Objective
Independently climbing a drilled-in, multi-rope route (difficulty grade IV-VI), use of mobile securing devices.

Topics
Theory of knots and belaying, tour planning for multi-pitch routes, special features of alpine climbing, tour planning, use of topoguides, material science, alpine dangers, environmental aspects.

Practical session
Belay variants, securing techniques at a belay station, orientation on the rock face, first use of wedges and clamping devices, lead and follow climbing, process of climbing and belaying as a rope team, climbing the first multi-pitch route, abseil and release techniques.

Details
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