ADVENTURES TOGETHER
by PROJECT CORDILLERA
Cordillera Central, Colombia
Los Nevados Alpine Course
When: JAN-DEC
Where: Colombia
Length: 8 days
Level: Easy
From: $525
Overview
Discover the world of high mountain climbing in Colombia
Outstanding, knowledgeable guides walk you through a comprehensive mountaineering curriculum
The Los Nevados Alpine Course is a robust mountaineering curriculum designed to teach you a range of alpine climbing and mountaineering skills. Whether you are climbing glaciers, leading technical pitches on snow and ice, or undertaking crevasse rescues, this course will ensure you develop the skills necessary to successfully complete any of the above maneuvers. This mountaineering course in the Colombian mountains is especially suited for beginners, but applicable to intermediate mountaineers as well.
Over the course of 7 days, you’ll learn about equipment use and climbing knots, rappelling systems and fall breaking practices, mapping and navigation, risk management procedures and problem solving under pressure. Please be well acclimatized before beginning the course and prepared to leave from Salento, Colombia - a beautiful colonial town in the coffee region of Antioquia.
Customized options are rarely available, however, please contact us if you have any special requests. As with most expeditions, you can join as an individual or build the course into your group's adventure.
Suggested Itinerary
Day 1 -
TRAVEL TO SALENTO
Arrive through your own transport to Salento. Spend the night at a hostel or hotel in town. Please book your own accommodations.
Day 2 -
SALENTO
Meet your course group in the main square of Salento at 6:30 am.
Day 3 -
FINCA LA PLAYA
Trek with the group to Nevado del Tolima at 4.000m (4 hours of walking). The mountaineering course begins. You'll learn about equipment use and care and climbing knots.
Day 4 -
HELIPORT NEVADO DEL TOLIMA
Start at 8:00 a.m. and practice falling, and climbing and descending by rope. You'll also learn about anchorages, and mapping.
Day 5 -
HELIPORT NEVADO DEL TOLIMA
Class begins at 8:00 a.m. Today's topics are rappelling systems, sliding knots, double rope handling, crossing with one and two partners, and assurance devices.
Day 6 -
HELIPORT NEVADO DEL TOLIMA
Attempt a summit of Nevado del Tolima, depending on weather conditions. You'll use everything you learned about climbing a glacier such as, classic rappelling systems and fall braking practices.
Day 7 -
FINCA LA PLAYA
Trek back to Finca La Playa, about 4 hours. Here we'll practice first aid care such as, improvised stretchers and harnesses, risk management and solving possible mistakes.
Day 8 -
SALENTO
Walk back to Valle del Cocora, about 7 hours of walking time.
What's Included
Can be included
- All in-country transport during trip
- First class bus tickets
- Hotel accommodations for specified time
- Professional, certified English-speaking guides
- Professional outdoor cook, 3 healthy meals a day plus snacks during the wilderness components of the trip
- All technical equipment
- All national park entrance fees
- All camping and cooking equipment
- Donkeys or llamas and porters where applicable
- Sleeping tents
- Sleeping mats
- Cook tent, eating tent, tables, chairs, and bathroom tent
- First aid kit stocked for wilderness expeditions
- Celebration banquet at the end of trip
Not usually included:
- International flights and applicable airport taxes
- Personal clothing and equipment
- All food during in-town days except the Celebration Banquet
- Incidental personal expenditures, including emergency evacuations and medical expenditures
- Insurance: personal travel, high mountain and/or medical insurance
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