Ice Climbing – Rjukan Week
About the course
The course is heavily focused on the participants gaining confidence in ice climbing. We, therefore, spend a lot of time looking at technique, movement and listening to our participant’s needs with a view that they will be inspired and confident by the end of the course.
The course will be run on single pitch and multi pitch terrain in and around Rjukan.
Rjukan is a world-renowned ice climbing destination as well as a historically important valley. Many of the ice climbs hang in a gorge directly below Vemork the old hydro electric plant that produced heavy water during the second world war.
Rjukan holds many exciting ice-falls that will fit all abilities.
Course objectives:
- Movement on ice/technique
- Use of crampons
- Use of axes
- Climbing with axes and crampons
- Climbing without axes (just crampons)
- Placing of ice protection (Ice screws) / snow protection (snow anchors)
- Making bomb proof ice belays
- Making bomb proof ice abseils, with and without ice screws
- Single pitch climbing/top roping and abseil
- Multi-pitch climbing/ abseiling
- Route choice and assessing ice quality
- Basics on avalanches avoidance
Combine it with other courses
This course can be combined with others to form part of our Alpine mentoring program.
Accommodation
Depending on the group’s requirements we can hire a cottage or stay at the now famous Old School Lodge.
Flights, train and getting there
I will collect everyone from Oslo Gardermoen airport in my old 4WD car 🙂
Equipment hire
If you need to rent equipment, that is no problem, just let us known in advance. You will receive a list of required items upon booking.
