Name: Mont Blanc Summit Challenge
Brand: Shackleton
SKU: SH-SC-L1-MBS-250
Price: 15417.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

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Mont Blanc Summit Challenge

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The Mission:

Polish your climbing skills, summit the Alps’ highest peak and return safely, courage affirmed.

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$15,417.00

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1: Ability to hike for a day of 6 hours with a backpack
2: Ability to hike for 4 consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack
3: Ability to hike for over one week in consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack

Discover (L1): Learn fundamental skills that enable you to operate in extreme environments
Explore (L2): Develop your capability with longer, more demanding and self-sufficient expeditions Pioneer
Pioneer (L3): Create your own chapter in the history of exploration with long-range expeditions along untrodden paths

CHALLENGE OVERVIEW

As recently as 1786, the iconic 4,808m White Mountain had no recorded ascents.

Since then its iconic peak has achieved ‘must-climb’ status amongst adventurers worldwide. Our expert team will thoroughly prepare us for the summit attempt before taking on the ultimate goal.

This 5-day programme based out of our Chamonix HQ includes skills assessment and acquisition, and long treks to overnight stays – first near the 3542m acclimatisation peak of Aiguille du Tour, then at the 3167 Tête Rousse hut in preparation for our morning ascent of Mont Blanc. Some days will take up 8-10 hours, others a more relaxed 3-4.

Alongside a team of fellow experienced climbers, we’ll navigate steep snow, rocky ridges and ice through a variety of climbing styles. Shackleton's team of expert guides will lead us all the way to the summit and back for what will undoubtedly be among the most memorable and rewarding weeks in lives well lived.

The entire Mont Blanc massif is the stuff of climbers’ dreams. There’s something inspiring in the air that infects everyone with vivacity and determination. Panoramic, once-in-a-lifetime views await us at the summit. These are only the first of the rewards.

STIMULATING ENVIRONMENTS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

PUSH YOURSELF TO THE LIMIT

On summit day, we start early and maintain a steady pace. Our aim is to be out of sync with other climbers on the mountain and cross the Grand Couloir early in the morning while it’s still cold. Up the broad face of the Dôme du Gôuter to where we can see the summit of the Mont Blanc; a slight descent, then up to the emergency shelter of the Vallot hut at 4362m. From here we ascend a series of beautiful snow arêtes which snake their way over les Bosses and la Tournette, until gradually arriving on the whaleback summit of Mont Blanc itself – the full 4810m.

Our world-class guides will ensure everyone accesses the skills required to play a full part in the expedition team.

A CORE PART OF THE TEAM

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Included

Foundations: Expedition Preparation Programme
Challenge-Specific Expedition Equipment (Loan):

Crampons
Harnesses
Ropes
Helmets
Climbing equipment

Accommodation, Travel & Logistics during the Challenge

Not Included

Return flights to start destination
Expedition Kit List
Personal Insurance

SHACKLETON DESIGN & MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (“Shackleton”) BOOKING CONDITIONS

These Booking Conditions (“Booking Conditions”), together with our Privacy Policy, Acknowledgment of Risk form and any other written information we brought to your attention before we confirmed your booking, form the basis of your contract with Shackleton of Flint Buildings, 1 Bedding Lane, Norwich NR3 1RG with company number: 07169051 (“Shackleton” “we”, “us”, “our”). Please read them carefully as they set out our respective rights and obligations. In these Booking Conditions references to "you" and "your" include the first named person on the booking and all persons on whose behalf a booking is made or any other person to whom a booking is added or transferred.

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Current Season Price

$15,417.00

Following Season Price

$15,417.00 AUD

WHY COME WITH SHACKLETON

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

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AUTHENTIC EXPEDITIONS

Every Shackleton Challenge has a central mission designed to develop the physical, mental and emotional strength required to access our untapped performance potential. While all challenges will stretch us to a degree, none will defeat us. We come through as a team.

SHACKLETON SPIRIT

Shackleton Challenges embody the enlightened leadership so central to the Boss’s own ethos, with empathy and encouragement at the centre. Our committed guides come with invaluable experience in tackling multi-day expeditions and a deep well of environmental wisdom and lively anecdotes. The contrast between daytime achievement and team-wide conviviality in the evenings is a distinctive feature of Shackleton Challenges that marks us out as different in kind.

LIFELONG RETURNS

The trials overcome will evolve into resources that you’ll draw on for the rest of your life, applicable to all kinds of situations where you’ll need to take the lead.

Memories made will abide. Like most of our Challenges alumni, you’ll probably stay in touch with the rest of the team.

This Challenge is aimed at those who have either completed our Alpine Skills Challenge or have the proven alpine experience necessary to tackle Mont Blanc. Our industry-leading Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through.

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

This Challenge is aimed at those who have either completed our Alpine Skills Challenge or have the proven alpine experience necessary to tackle Mont Blanc. Our industry-leading Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through.

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PUSH YOURSELF TO THE LIMIT

On summit day, we start early and maintain a steady pace. Our aim is to be out of sync with other climbers on the mountain and cross the Grand Couloir early in the morning while it’s still cold. Up the broad face of the Dôme du Gôuter to where we can see the summit of the Mont Blanc; a slight descent, then up to the emergency shelter of the Vallot hut at 4362m. From here we ascend a series of beautiful snow arêtes which snake their way over les Bosses and la Tournette, until gradually arriving on the whaleback summit of Mont Blanc itself – the full 4810m.

STIMULATING ENVIRONMENTS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The entire Mont Blanc massif is the stuff of climbers’ dreams. There’s something inspiring in the air that infects everyone with vivacity and determination. Panoramic, once-in-a-lifetime views await us at the summit. These are only the first of the rewards.

A CORE PART OF THE TEAM

Our world-class guides will ensure everyone accesses the skills required to play a full part in the expedition team.

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

This Challenge is aimed at those who have either completed our Alpine Skills Challenge or have the proven alpine experience necessary to tackle Mont Blanc. Our industry-leading Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through.

RECORD-BREAKING GUIDES

FOUNDATIONS

PROGRAMME

TESTIMONIALS

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“The journey is as much inward as it is outward.”

"At the end of this experience I truly felt as if I had conquered a side of myself that didn’t believe intense physical challenges were something for me."