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Within five days, ascend to the summit of Italy’s 4061m Gran Paradiso mountain and return safely; alpine and life skills learned, courage affirmed.

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Alpine Skills Challenge
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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
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  • 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
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Alpine Skills Challenge

The Shackleton Alpine Skills Challenge offers the unique opportunity to undergo expert mountain training in the French Alps with everything taken care of - luxury accommodation, kit, transport and all logistics - culminating at the summit of 'the highest mountain entirely in Italy.
Led by our team of IFMGA mountain guides, we’ll absorb and practise every necessary aspect of alpinism in preparation for a summit attempt of Gran Paradiso, one of the coveted 4,000m peaks of the Graian Alps.

We’ll spend the preceding days learning all the key alpine mountaineering techniques on stunning Via Ferrata routes and using crampons and ice axes to navigate across glaciers. Skills acquired, we’ll transit to Italy for our two-day mountain ascent, hiking three hours to overnight at a spectacular mountain hut on the way. We’ll rise as a team before dawn to summit the spectacular 4,000m peak, marvelling at both the panoramic views and our own expanded horizons.

Alpine Skills Challenge

From dramatic, snow-capped granite ridges to ancient glaciers of blue ice, the Alps wheedle their way under the skin. It’s the ideal environment to learn the techniques - - belaying, rapelling, assessing situations - that have carried thousands of adventurers to its many peaks and thence to further-flung ranges. We’ll cross France's largest glacier and ice-climb its pitches; depend on skills learned only yesterday to help us safe today. We’ll stand atop a mountain as tall as a 4k run. We’ll come down changed.

INVIGORATING EXPERIENCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Alpine Skills Challenge

STIMULATING ENVIRONMENTS

Nestled beneath the towering Mont Blanc, the Chamonix valley is one of Europe’s best adventure playgrounds and the birthplace of Alpinism. The rugged terrain continues to draw enthusiasts and experts from around the world. Its soaring peaks, challenging terrain and sophisticated infrastructure make it the ideal place to learn at an intensive pace.

Alpine Skills Challenge

Our expert guides will be on hand both before and during the Challenge to provide specialised mental and physical training – along with nutritional guidance - to allow us to push beyond our own boundaries. They will ensure everyone accesses the skills required to thrive in the environment and play a full part in the expedition team.

LEARN FROM RECORD-BREAKING GUIDES

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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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Current Season Price

K224.268

Following Season Price

ZMW231.748

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.

The Alpine Skills Challenge requires a good level of fitness and ideally some experience of climbing - though proper preparation, an eagerness to learn and a methodical approach go a long way. Our industry-leading Foundations programme will detail exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through.

Foundations programme

The Alpine Skills Challenge requires a good level of fitness and ideally some experience of climbing - though proper preparation, an eagerness to learn and a methodical approach go a long way. Our industry-leading Foundations programme will detail exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through.

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Alpine Skills Challenge

STIMULATING ENVIRONMENTS

Nestled beneath the towering Mont Blanc, the Chamonix valley is one of Europe’s best adventure playgrounds and the birthplace of Alpinism. The rugged terrain continues to draw enthusiasts and experts from around the world. Its soaring peaks, challenging terrain and sophisticated infrastructure make it the ideal place to learn at an intensive pace.

Alpine Skills Challenge

INVIGORATING EXPERIENCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

From dramatic, snow-capped granite ridges to ancient glaciers of blue ice, the Alps wheedle their way under the skin. It’s the ideal environment to learn the techniques - - belaying, rapelling, assessing situations - that have carried thousands of adventurers to its many peaks and thence to further-flung ranges. We’ll cross France's largest glacier and ice-climb its pitches; depend on skills learned only yesterday to help us safe today. We’ll stand atop a mountain as tall as a 4k run. We’ll come down changed.

Alpine Skills Challenge

LEARN FROM RECORD-BREAKING GUIDES

Our expert guides will be on hand both before and during the Challenge to provide specialised mental and physical training – along with nutritional guidance - to allow us to push beyond our own boundaries. They will ensure everyone accesses the skills required to thrive in the environment and play a full part in the expedition team.

Alpine Skills Challenge

Foundations programme

The Alpine Skills Challenge requires a good level of fitness and ideally some experience of climbing - though proper preparation, an eagerness to learn and a methodical approach go a long way. Our industry-leading Foundations programme will detail exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through.

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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."

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