Alpine Mountain Climbing

Alpinism or alpine climbing demands the skills of all climbing disciplines. It draws on the movements and protection of both rock and ice climbing, glacier navigation, extreme weather, and the hazards of exposure to high altitude, Alpine climbing sets itself apart because it takes place in the forbidding and alluring high mountain environment.

Our instructional courses and seminars are based on the idea of a progression that closely follows our own tutelage through climbing. We begin with the rudiments of rock climbing advancing to more expert levels of rock while at the same time offering exposure to ice and alpine climbing as well as backcountry skiing and snow boarding, this leads to the emerging of the quintessential climber, the alpinist, who is comfortable and adept in all mountain environments.

Northeast Face of Cholatse, Nepal Climbing Peak 11,300 in Alaska Alpine rock climbing

 

Suntoucher Mountain Guides specializes in Alpine climbing instruction and ascents worldwide. We have over 20 cumulative years of experience and have enjoyed many successful summits on Mt. McKinley, Mont Blanc, Mt. Huntington, Huayna Potosi, Illimani, Alpamayo and  many more.

Instruction and Guiding:

Courses are designed to ensure each participant has the necessary skills to attempt a summit(s) during the course depending on length of course and location.

Alpine Instruction is incorporated into seminars taking place in:

South America:

Bolivia and Peru

The Andes offer some of the best introductory high altitude climbing in the world.  6000 meter summits abound as well as classic technical faces and ridges for the adventurous alpinist.

The Alps:

France, Switzerland, Italy

The birthplace of Alpinism and home to some of the most elegant routes anywhere.  The Alps offer exceptional mountaineering experiences for climbers of all ability levels.

Alaska:

The Alaska Range

Denali, Foraker, Hunter... these are the well known peaks of the Alaska Range, but there are hundreds of other peaks in this Range.  The Ruth Gorge, Little Switzerland and other sub-areas contain world class climbing all within sight of North America's tallest mountain.

2007 Ruth Glacier Alpine course and Ascents:  May 12 - 18, 2007.

We will be flying into the Ruth Ampitheater on May 12, 2007 in order to climb Mt. Barrill via the Japaneese Coulior and Mt. Dan Beard's Southwest Buttress. This trip will focus on alpine style climbing in the Alaska Range on these classic moderately technical routes. Cost $2500/person, this trip is run in cooperation with Mountain Trip.      

             

Fundamentals:

All trips vary in length and are catered to the our goals of our guests. We do only small ratio guiding and instruction to ensure; the quality of the instruction, the safety of the participants, minimize the impact to fragile mountain environments, increase the potential for success of our guests and to develop a more personal relationship with the climbers on our trips in order to better meet their needs while traveling and climbing.

More details coming soon...

Call or email for upcoming trips and for more information.
Email: Climb@suntoucher.com
(505) 400-5590