Expedition Skills and Training

Our Winter Expedition Skills course is based in the Glencoe area and involves 2 nights wild camping.

Weekend Training weekends are strictly for clients and prospective clients plus their guests only. Our pre-expedition training weekends are designed to help you prepare fully for your expedition.

Weekend Training weekends are strictly for clients and prospective clients plus their guests only. Our pre-expedition training weekends are designed to help you prepare fully for your expedition.

This course of alpine training and 4000m Peaks is set in a magnificent and unspoilt area of Kyrgyzstan far away from the crowded European Alps. The beautiful Ak-Sai glacier lies in the Ala Archa National Park, a protected alpine area in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan. You will acclimatise whilst undergoing training in: ice axe and crampons, glacial travel, crevasse rescue, roping up and movement over glaciated alpine terrain, rock climbing and belaying.

This week of Arctic Expedition Training will prepare you physically and mentally for your goal - The Last Degree on the South or North Pole, Mountain Peaks like Mt Vinson and Denali.