When: JAN-DEC

Where: Colombia

Length: 6-8 days

Level: Easy

From: $525

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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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Los Nevados Alpine Course