Mountaineering

Do you want to become a confident mountaineer? KAF transforms beginners into experts!

The KAF Adventures Mountaineering Program (MP) is one component of our mission to promote self-discovery, wilderness skill education, and leadership development through outdoor recreation, adventure travel, and wilderness exploration.

Throughout the Mountaineering Program will develop the fundamental skill-set needed for wilderness travel, backcountry camping and climbing. As you progress through the program, you will build upon each class, becoming a more advanced technical climber step-by-step.

And it’s fun! We want you to enjoy yourself, learn, grow, and feel a sense of community with KAF Adventures.

Our Mountaineering Program will strengthen your sense of community. We encourage participants to build relationships and partners  with whom they can join up for future longer, multi-day expeditions.

Progression:

The Mountaineering Program is designed to create the most capable mountaineer in the shortest amount of time possible.

You will begin by learning the basic concepts of Alpinism:

• Attitude and mentality, movement over moderate angled terrain (snow, ice and rock), the fundamentals of rope management, self-care in the mountains, campcraft, navigation, snow-protection, anchoring, and expedition behavior.

You will progress towards more advanced techniques in more technical terrain:

• Ice climbing, crevasse rescue, advanced belay techniques, cooking, route-finding, and leadership in the mountains.

Through this education and apprenticeship, your judgement and experience will prepare you for multi-day expeditions, and international high-altitude summit experiences.

Mountaineering requires a complex and multi-faceted skill-set to stay safe and comfortable in the incredibly varied terrain of the alpine. It is not uncommon for someone to be competent in some areas of mountaineering and a novice in others – but that’s what we’re here for! Depending upon which experience level you come to us with, we can place you in the correct classes and climbs to advance your skills.

KAF Adventures will discuss your goals with you, and where your experience fits into our Mountaineering Progression.

We want to create the world’s strongest and most reliable alpinists. So call us to see what your journey will look like – let’s begin today!

If you have any questions, please visit the registration page or contact us on the contact bar on the left side of this page.

Take a look at the first class in the progression, Intro to Mountaineering, and see what cool opportunities are right over the horizon.