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 Outdoor Studies DepartmentMountaineeringOur Mountaineering program offers students the opportunity to learn from the most experienced instructors in the most spectacular geography of the world. The program integrates knowledge learned in the classroom into field classes. 
Students take a sequence of courses, starting with our Intro to Wilderness Skills, Intro to Winter Wilderness Skills, and Beginning Climbing. Our Search and Rescue Courses teach students skills in land search theory and technique, low and high angle rescues. The next class in our mountaineering sequence is our Expedition Glacier Travel course. The Glacier Travel course covers skills needed to safely travel on Alaska's world renown glaciers. The course spends the first few days learning crevasse rescue and ice climbing techniques. Then the group travels for two to three weeks on one of Alaska's many immense glaciers, learning route finding skills, camping skills, and honing their rescue and climbing skills. Between courses students are encouraged to build their personal experience through trips with friends and the extracurricular Outdoor Program.  The last course in the Mountaineering sequence is the Expedition Mountaineering course. This course takes all the experience a student has accumulated to plan and execute an expedition to one of Alaska's many remote, large mountain ranges with the intent to climb. A select few students have gone on to do practicums with guide services such as Alaska Denali Guiding, Alaska Mountaineering School, and St. Elias Mountain Guides. |
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