OL 294AC : Alpine Climbing

Transcript title

Alpine Climbing

Credits

3

Grading mode

Standard letter grades

Total contact hours

60

Other hours

60

Prerequisites

OL 171, OL 271, OL 273.

Course Description

Designed to introduce the student to guiding, teaching and leading technical mountain travel with specific emphasis on rock, snow, and ice anchors; glacier travel and crevasse rescue; and climbing steeper snow and ice. Additional relevant topics may also be introduced (e.g., avalanche safety, high altitude).

Course learning outcomes

1. Plan and organize a basic alpine travel curriculum for novice through intermediate participants.
2. Assess and Support beginning level participants during an alpine climbing program.
3. Apply effective risk management methods for an alpine climbing program.
4. Integrate an assessment of a client’s abilities and limitations into an appropriate alpine climbing program.
5. Determine effective decisions concerning specific ethical considerations of alpine climbing.

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