COURSE STRUCTURE: 4 days

SUBJECTS:

• Ski mountaineering equipment, clothing, nutrition;

• Climbing technique (alternating step, diagonals, inversions);

• Descent technique (how to safely descend on any type of snow and slope off-piste);

• Notions of self-rescue in avalanches (use of the transceiver, multiple searches, intervention dynamics);

• Outlines of snow and avalanches;

• Notions of topography (reading a topographic map, using a compass and GPS);

• Teachings on how to prepare a ski tour (choice of itinerary, evaluation of the terrain, study of the ascent and descent route, reading weather and avalanche bulletins, preparing the backpack, etc …)