Climbers cross a crevasse Photo by Tyson Bradley

Mountaineering > Scheduled Courses > Crevasse Rescue Skills

Crevasse Rescue Skills:
Instruction in glacial travel, belaying, snow anchors, raising systems and ascending a rope.

Description:
The perfect prep course for ascents of Rainier, Denali, or other crevassed routes. The instructor will demonstrate belaying, and rope tension between climbers as the group ascends to a simulated crevasse location. The guide will explain “reading” glacial terrain for the safest route. Use of snow pickets, dead man anchors, bollards and snow flukes will be demonstrated by the instructor and practiced by participants. The bulk of the day will be spent learning the knots, hitches, and pulley systems involved in crevasse rescue and other raising situations. Participants will each build a 3:1 system and learn to escape a belay, belay themselves to a crevasse lip, pad the lip, and raise or lower an injured companion. At the end of the day the group will fit prussiks and use them to ascend a rope. Each participant should bring 30 feet of 5 or 6 mm static line, or 3 short prussik loops and a foot prussik.

Dates:

Fee:
     $160 pp plus tax

Location:
     Salt Lake City, Utah