Alpine Essentials

Description: DVD
Code: VG-DVD002
Manufacturer: BMC

This film shows the essential skills & techniques necessary for Alpine mountaineering.

It follows two mountaineers on a multi-day trip in the Swiss Alps. See how they cope with their environment and what steps they take to both enjoy the experience and return safely. The DVD contains a range of separate chapters which expand upon the topics covered in the film, including:

• Glacier Travel
• Abseiling
• Via Ferrata
• Crevasse Rescue
• Ice Axes
• Huts and Bivouacs
• Moving Together
• Crampons
• Clothing and Equipment
  

This DVD will educate and inspire all those wanting to go alpine mountaineering. Filmed in Switzerland, the skills covered are relevant to people operating at all grades, and on all glaciated terrain.

The DVD is jointly produced by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and the British Mountaineering Council. Financial support has been provided by the Catherine Smith Memorial Trust, the Ceinwen Faulkner Memorial Trust, the Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust and the Mountain Training Trust.

MCofS: www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk
BMC: www.thebmc.co.uk