Skills Expeditions
Learn Basic and Intermediate Climbing Skills While Making Major Ascents
Our Skills Expeditions bridge the gap between trekking and mountaineering for those with limited climbing experience. Participants learn climbing and expedition skills in the context of beautiful climbs on major peaks. Not solely for beginners, these programs also offer a skills refresher and acclimatization climbs for those preparing for higher peaks.
Skills Expeditions
Learn Basic and Intermediate Climbing Skills While Making Major Ascents
View from a Bolivia II camp in the Condoriri Lake District. Cerro Condoriri is in the distance and its West Wing is to its left in the center of the photo. Miles NewbyThe high peaks of Bolivia's Cordillera Real offer some of the most spectacular alpine climbing in the world. Join AAI for just the first part of this skill-building expedition, or use it to prepare and acclimatize for the Illimani Expedition.
- Location:Cordillera Real, Bolivia
- Season:June - September
- Length:17 days or 10 days without acclimatization trek
- Cost:Private Programs Available
A group of AAI climbers attempt Cayembe to put the information learned during instruction into practice.Climb high altitude volcanoes in Ecuador! This program offers mountaineers two days of skills training before ascents of Cayambe (18,997 ft/5790m) and Cotopaxi (19,348 ft/5897m) by way of classic snow and ice routes. The skills training allows even novice climbers to access these beautiful alpine summits.
- Location:Ecuadorian Andes
- Season:November - March, May - July
- Length:10 days, or 14 with Chimborazo extension
- Cost:$3690 or $5040 with Chimborazo extension
Expedition camp on Toqllaraju. Andrew WexlerAscents of Nevado Urus Este (17,783 ft.), Ishinca (18,143 ft.), Toqllaraju (19,790 ft.) plus review of alpine climbing and glacier travel skills.
- Location:Cordillera Blanca, Peru
- Season:May - August
- Length:14 days or 20 days w/6 day extension for Chopicalqui
- Cost:Contact AAI Office for more details
Climbers celebrating on an unnamed, previously unclimbed summit in the St. Elias Range. Paul ValulisIntroducing Alaska and expedition climbing, participants with previous mountaineering experience will learn the skills to be a rope team leader on moderate glacial terrain while intermediate climbers review snow and ice techniques, protective systems, and crevasse rescue. All participants attempt ascents at a beginner or intermediate level in the Wrangell-Saint Elias Mountains.
- Location:St. Elias Range, Alaska
- Season:May - June
- Length:Varies
- Cost:Please contact AAI for pricing
Lamoshe, on the right, means "Goddess Peak" and is the highest objective in this sub-range of the Daxue Shan range. Andy BourneBring your expedition climbing skills to a remote part of China and climb Lamoshe (19,915 ft). This unique program revives the adventuresome spirit of climbing, taking us into a range of major peaks that have escaped attention by western climbers. The region is remote. The mountains are big. And the adventure has a similar feel to the adventure endured by early mountain explorers.
- Location:Sichuan, China
- Season:September - October
- Length:13 days
- Cost:Starting at $13,995
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