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Learn the skills and techniques of alpinism, culminating in a 4,000m summit expedition.

Alpine Skills Challenge

Foundations programme

The complete programme to prepare you psychologically, physiologically and nutritionally to succeed on your Challenge.

Alpine Skills Challenge

The birthplace of alpine mountaineering

Chamonix, nestled beneath the towering Mont Blanc, where the first recorded ascent marked the dawn of modern alpinism in 1786. Its rugged, breathtaking terrain continues to draw climbers, adventurers, and mountaineering enthusiasts and experts from around the world, making it an enduring symbol of alpine skill.

Alpine Skills Challenge

Learn from record breaking guides

Our expert guides will be are on hand to prior and on the Challenge to provide specialised mental and physical training and nutritional guidance to allow you to push beyond your own boudnaries.

Alpine Skills Challenge

Master the mountain

Learn all of the key alpine mountaineering skills on breathtaking local via ferrata routes, including belaying, rapelling, mountaineering situations and more. Experience France's largest glacier by learning to travel across it, and ice climb its pitches.

Alpine Skills Challenge

Push for the summit

Conquer a two-day mountain ascent, staying at a spectacular mountain hut en-route. Rise before dawn to summit the spectacular 4,000m peak Gran Paradiso.

The Shackleton Alpine Skills Challenge offers the unique opportunity of a structured week of expert mountain training in the French Alps with the benefit of luxury accommodation, kit, transport and all logistics taken care of. Led by IFMGA mountain guides, you will visit the optimal places for learning every aspect of Alpinism, all in preparation for a summit attempt of Gran Paradiso - one of the coveted 4,000m peaks of the Graian Alps in Italy. From dramatic granite ridges topped with snow to ancient blue-ice glaciers, the Chamonix valley is one of Europe’s best adventure playgrounds; its soaring peaks, challenging terrain and sophisticated infrastructure make it the ideal place to learn at an intensive pace.

  • 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
  • Pioener (L3): Create your own chapter in the history of exploration with long-range expeditions along untrodden paths
  • 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
  • 1. No experience required
  • 2. Foundational Challenge specific skills required
  • 3. Advanced Challenge specific skills required

Included

  • Foundations: Expedition Preparation Programme
  • Challenge-Specific Expedition Equipment (Loan):
  1. Crampons
  2. Harnesses
  3. Ropes
  4. Helmets
  5. 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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“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."

“It was probably the best experience of my life so far."

Equip yourself for the Alpine Skills Challenge