aconcagua

hej hej!

i am planning on climbing ACONCAGUA in 2014 and am looking for a basic 'climbing course' to do somewhere in sweden before then.
the course should involve crampons, ice axes and self arresting as far as i know.

what would it be called in swedish?

i live in orebro so the closer the better

tack tack!

Well, you can sign up for a traditional climbing course, but that isn't realy what you need. Ice climbing lets you know how to work with ice axe, rope and crampons, but that is vertical ice, not primeraly for alpine usage. You could go on a bree-course i Norway, bree meaning glacier.

The best would be to take an alpine coure, but the one I know in Sweden is two weeks, expensive, and takes place in Kebnekaise in June/July.

My advice is that you go to the Alps, hire a guide for a day or two. Request that the guide shows you basic alpinim know how. You can summit a 4000m just to know how it feels to be in high altitude.

Mvh /Joel

Or go a course in alpine climbing with ucpa. A frensh organisation. Cheap for one week. Guides speaking english.

Last year I was in the same situation as you, looking for some kind of mountaineering course. I Signed up for the basic alpinism course with UCPA in Chamonix, mainly because I wanted to go to the alps and that the course wasn't as expensive as the one held at Kebnekaise in Sweden.

Since this is the only course I've taken, I don't know how it would compare to any other courses but I can highly recommed that you go with UCPA. When I went there were like 10 swedes, a couple of britts and some other nationalites as well. Only one guy was french so the whole course was held in english and I got the feelning this wasn't unusual at all.

During the week we got to go rockclimbing, glacierwalking, climbing around in heavy snowfall in the mountains as well as climbing the "auigille de tour". Needless to say you also get to learn crampon and rope techniques and so on.

Best of luck to you!