Children and Youth
No boredom is known to children and young people who enroll in a course of alpine schools. Climbing, bivouacking, abseiling are taught. Adventure and play attract as well as the secrets of the mountain world. Team spirit is announced - because only together makes the day on the mountain really fun.
Alpine schools offer mountain weeks with climbing and adventure for children from 6 years and for teens up to 18 years.
Safety is top priority - the little ones can be entrusted to the certified mountain guides without hesitation.
Requirement: Team spirit, motivation
Summer information
Vocational Training
You want more than just hiking? In this basic course, independent mountain climbing is learned. Alpine prior knowledge is not necessary, provided a medium condition. The training includes all the basic terms of mountaineering, use of the ice pick and proper walking with crampons, compass orientation, map and altimeter, roping and knotting, rappelling and proper securing, climbing in light rock, lectures on equipment, alpine dangers and first aid on the mountain , Nice tours are also performed.
family tours
While the parents are climbing a mountain, the children play under expert supervision, for example in a climbing garden. After an eventful day, the family has a lot to talk about at the dinner together.
The programs are specially designed for parents and children and run by selected mountain guides.
Family mountain weeks are offered in summer and in winter.
Hiking
Traveling with the tent or sleeping in a lodge in distant countries at heights of up to about 5500 meters. The trekking tours of the alpine schools in Austria lead for example to the Kilimandjaro or the Bacecamp of the Mt. Everest, but also to lesser known destinations like the island Reunion or the John Muir Trail.
The best possible quality of the tour is given if the group sizes are kept small, the best possible quarters are organized in valley locations and certified mountain guides are used.
Requirement: good condition, health and sure-footedness
Hiking trips island hiking
Differences and similarities - mountains, deserts, lush vegetation - high mountain landscapes here and there. "Wandering" foreign primeval landscapes means getting to know foreign lands from a completely different perspective and much more intensively.
Alpine schools offer hiking trips within Europe and far away countries. The advantage: no language barrier with the local mountain guide, who knows the travel and the tour destination very well.
Requirement: Condition for daily walking time of approx. 4-7 hours.
mountaineering
Alpine pastures, rocks, glaciers, ice - nothing is more varied than a high tour in the Alps. And never is a high tour safer than in the company of an experienced mountain guide.
Experience magnificent quiet mountain days on historic grounds in one of the most beautiful and varied mountain landscapes in the world. The alpine schools in Austria have many varied tours in the Alps in the program. This ranges from the ascent of individual peaks to round trips from the Eastern Alps to Mont Blanc, sometimes far away from any mass tourism.
Planning, organizing, procuring the right equipment and guiding the tour includes the performance of the alpine schools.
Requirement: Mountain experience, sure-footedness, endurance for daily walking times of four to eight hours.
glacier tours
The kings of the mountains are the glaciers. Therefore, glacier tours have a very special fascination. But glaciers also harbor very special dangers. Crevasses can open up everywhere and rapid changes in the weather are part of everyday life. Therefore, tourism organizations and mountain railways recommend that not only the inexperienced, but also people unfamiliar with the area join in the summer as well as in winter local mountain guides.
They know "their" glaciers exactly, know where crevices are and can assess the dangers.
Mountain biking, canyoning & canoe trips
In addition to hiking, climbing, trekking, etc., the alpine schools also offer mountain bike tours of all levels of difficulty, rafting, canoeing and canyoning.
Expedition
An expedition wants to be planned and prepared. Trekking and expedition preparatory courses of the alpine schools, as well as sport medical load test and individual advice belong to it.
The expeditions lead to the most famous peaks of the earth like Mount Everest, K2, Amadablan and many more
Requirement: best health, condition preparation, surefootedness and contracts of great heights.
Climbing
After the ridge course with rappelling and rappelling, securing, stand construction, kick training, teaching various climbing techniques, getting to know alpine dangers and equipment climbing on the via ferrata and in the climbing garden is the next step, before it goes out into the free wall - then the first easy climb
Strategies for economic advancement and succession, sensible use of natural resting points, as well as perfect handling of the rope, safety equipment and equipment are taught in the sport climbing courses of alpine schools. This includes valuable tips on boulder, strength and bodybuilding as well as the most important rescue techniques.
Requirement: Head for heights, sure-footedness, sense of movement, motivation
ferrata
Grab rock, get out into the exposed, but without leaving the permanent safety of the steel cable, iron braces and ladders. But no fear of heights and good condition must be brought along in any case. Everywhere in the Alps there are secured via ferratas.
Climbing in via ferratas gives the climber almost the same feeling of freedom as free climbing. But climbing on insured climbs requires knowledge of the right technology - above all, securing. This is taught in the offered courses of the alpine schools.
To complete the via ferrata, the complete via ferrata equipment is essential.
Requirement: A head for heights, sure-footedness, good condition.
Hiking
Hiking with the help of telescopic poles in a variety of flora and varied landscape, traversing the most beautiful mountain groups in the Alps, secluded alpine pastures, craggy peaks and cozy huts. An unimaginable beauty of nature is experienced by the hiker on the paths on which the guides or mountain guides lead through the Alps.
One- and multi-day tours, weekly programs, tours from hut to hut etc. are offered. And if the desire tour is missing in the program, each individual route can be put together.
When hiking, the telescopic poles are specifically used as a sports equipment to actively involve the entire upper body at every step in the movement, it is called Nordic Walking.
Alpine hikes are available in all levels and in all lengths, suitable for beginners, persevering goers, athletic ambitious, families and children.
Requirement: Surefooted, endurance for daily walking of up to eight hours.
