Another good week of climbing and instructing: this week completing 2 Alpine Essentials Climbing Skills Courses – the aim of these short but intense 3 day courses is to enable Uk trad climbers to ‘skill up’ for climbing in the Alps.
There’s a lot to get through and it’s hard work, but these courses are immensely rewarding to work on – this week we covered the full range of moving together, crevasse rescue and glacier travel skills with ascents of the Flambeau N Ridge, Aiguille D’Entreves south ridge and the traverse of the Marbrees, plus prussiking sessions and lots of advice and planning in the huts.
