Alpine Climbing Course with LEAD Climb, Chengdu
This past weekend I went to the mountains of Western Sichuan province to teach an introduction to alpine climbing course. We had over 50 very motivated students.
The course lasted 8 days where the first couple of days we got together and explained a bit of the theory behind the concepts we were going to study. The following few days we practice some techniques such as running belay, abseiling, moving on a rope team, self arrest and such. We slowly started hiking to base camp and acclimating as we went along. During summit push we had a very overcast day with strong winds on the summit ridge. We were unlucky not to see any of the beautiful summit views, but we all had a blast!!
If you would like to know more about LEADCLIMB check their site here www.leadclimb.org
Driving to the Mountains Pine trees! New Phantom Tech. Our pre-base camp another use for a basketball Line them up! Local herd Wildlings... Hello there! Stream Mountains 20161002_131644 Heart cloud Camp 1 Camp 1 Basketball feeding Base camp selfie Base Camp
Summit! My group on the summit. Climbing in a whiteout. All good... Summit selfie. The end!
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