This course includes certified guides with experience from their own expeditions. We expect you to have most of the climbing equipment, but we supplement what you need without extra cost.

We meet in the early evening and talk through the course plan, your aim with the course, and your previous knowledge and experience.

The blue ice part of the glacier is focus this day. We start with basic repetition of walking techniques, use of equipment and ice-screws. Then we move into the ice formations to learn and practice our use of the rope and ice-screws to protect us.

We start the day by selecting a challenging route through an ice fall, and use our knowledge and skills to get through it. Then we arrange for a fall into a crevasse, and practice rescuing the rest of the day. First, we rescue using simple principles, then we move on to more advance and effective methods.

We pack our tents and move on to the glacier. With large packs, we first selects a route through the ice fall. A particularly challenging part is the area when we go into the snow-covered glacier, with thin snow bridges. Then we continue further into the glacier where we select a camp site on snow.

Based on the advanced camp on the glacier, we practice rescuing from snow-covered crevasses the first part of the day, further developing into effective methods of rescuing a person that is injured. Then we practice how to move safely in steep snow, and how to prevent and stop falls in different ways. We also set fixed ropes and test their safety.

This day we do one of two, based on your wish. We can move onto a summit from the camp. Navigating, steep snow, crossing snow-covered crevasses, and using fixed ropes will all be part of this day. Or we can use the entire day to practice safe movement in steep snow. In the evening we return to our glacier-camp.

We pack down the camp and returns down the glacier with our large backpacks. The the course is finished with an evaluation in the afternoon.

This course will be held at Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier in mainland Europe, where there is a large area to practice, such as large icefalls, blue ice, crevasses hidden under the snow, and peaks. 

This is an advanced course that demands a lot from you physically. It is also a pre-requisite that you have experience from climbing and glaciers before you come. The more you know, the more you can learn from this course.

The program is a suggestion. For private courses, the course content can be adjusted to your needs.