Description
Learn Mountaineering!
The Mountaineering Camps are your springboard into the big mountains. With the right coaching and practice-oriented tours, we help you become more confident and independent in high alpine terrain.
🔍 What You’ll Face
On mountaineering tours, you’ll encounter various alpine challenges: snow, ice, rock, weather, equipment, and group dynamics. We coach you in all of these disciplines with a clear focus on real mountain environments.
🎯 Course Objective
We build on your existing skills with modern mountaineering techniques and practical coaching. The aim is to give you the tools for safe, independent high mountain tours in summer – whether for private goals or future climbs.
This course is designed for motivated hikers and alpinists who want to take the next step toward autonomy.
📚 What You’ll Learn
- How to build anchors in rock and ice
- Crevasse rescue and rope team techniques
- Belaying on snow ridges and rock terrain
- Effective use of crampons and ice axes
- Practical risk management and tour planning
- Application tours with real-time decision-making
This is not a classroom experience – everything is taught outdoors in the field.
📍 Locations & Dates
We choose the location based on the date – e.g. Sustenpass, Furka, Bernese Alps or other alpine regions in Central Switzerland.
The June courses use Spannorthütte in the Surenen valley near Engelberg. In July we start in Meiringen and link Windegghütte and Trifthütte with rock training, glacier work and a guided alpine tour.
- 4–6 June 2027 · Spannorthütte near Engelberg · CHF 585
- 18–20 June 2027 · Spannorthütte near Engelberg · CHF 585
- 16–18 July 2027 · Windegghütte and Trifthütte, starting in Meiringen · CHF 595
Windegghütte and Trifthütte · 16–18 July 2027
Three days of mountaineering in the Bernese Oberland, with two different huts and time to practise rock and glacier skills. The group place costs CHF 595 per person.
Friday 16 July · Meiringen to Windegghütte
Meet in Meiringen for a kit check. A lift from Stans is possible by arrangement. On the ascent we discuss route planning. At the crag near Windegghütte we practise tying in, belaying a partner and moving between walking and climbing. We spend the night at Windegghütte.
Saturday 17 July · Glacier training and Trifthütte
On the way to Trifthütte we practise moving as a rope team, using crampons and an ice axe, choosing a line on the glacier and crevasse rescue at a suitable site. At the hut we plan Sunday’s tour together.
Sunday 18 July · Alpine tour and descent
Put your skills into practice on a guided ascent. If conditions and the group allow, we aim for the Diechterhorn. Otherwise we choose a suitable objective in the Trift area. You take part in navigation, route choice and rope handling before we descend to the valley.
