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        • Bare Essentials one day winter skills
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        • Two day winter skills experience
        • Winter walking introduction
        • Introduction to winter mountaineering
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        • Three ridges three days
        • Ben Nevis big three
        • Five day Scottish winter master class
        • Classic ice climbs
        • Mixed master experience
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Winter skills open courses 

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Learning winter skills for any budding mountaineer is one of the biggest steps into becoming an independant winter mountaineer or hillwalker. Gone are the days of just pinching your dad's old ice axe and just heading out into the hills. Learning winter skills such as how to ice axe arrest and how to properly route plan to the condintions to avoid avalanches are the primary wepon in any mountaineers aresenal.

In two days on one of our open courses you will learn:
Snowcraft, such as movement in crampons, ice axe use and how to use your boots as tools.
Avalanche assesments
Route planning and finding 
winter navigation 
​Dealing with emergancies in winter
Dates: 
All our courses are based in Fort Willaim, the perfect place to access the best hills quickly. All courses will have no more than 6 people to one instructor. 
Course dates are: 
21-22nd of January 
25-26th of Febuary
11-12th of March 
25-26th of March
If these dates don't work don't worry, we can organise something for you on any dates that suit you. For the same price as well!
Cost is £215.00 per person for two days, don't say that's not a bargin! 

To book a course please fill out an enquiries form on the button bellow, hurry places are filling up already! 
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10% discount and a free gift voucher if you book before christmas, what could be a better present than playing in the snow. 
Book now

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The cairngorms

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creag meagaidh

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Ben nevis and glen coe 

We would love to have you visit soon!


Hours

All day every day

Telephone

+447446191098

Email

climb@atlasmountaineering.com
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  • Home
  • Climb Ben Nevis
    • Ben Nevis winter walk
    • Walking The Wild Side
  • Contact us
    • About us
  • Writing
  • UK trips
    • summer >
      • Via Ferrata Scotland
      • Walking and Mountaineering
      • Climbing
      • Mountain Biking
    • Winter >
      • Winter walking and mountaineering >
        • The North Face of Ben Nevis
        • Bare Essentials one day winter skills
        • Carn Mor Dearg arete in Winter
        • Two day winter skills experience
        • Winter walking introduction
        • Introduction to winter mountaineering
      • Winter climbing >
        • Three ridges three days
        • Ben Nevis big three
        • Five day Scottish winter master class
        • Classic ice climbs
        • Mixed master experience
      • Ski touring
  • International trips
    • Jbel Toubkal
    • Spanish rock
    • Mt. Kenya