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Slideshow: Learning to Mountaineer in the French and Austrian Alps, Jake Jones · Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

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Organized by: Cora Skaien.

Start: Wednesday, Jan. 20th, 7:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting location: ESB (Earth and Ocean Sciences) 2012

Description:
Interested in exciting travel and alpine adventure?  Love natural beauty?  Keen to explore above and beyond the crag and conquer the high mountains?  You need to mountaineer!
 
Last summer I (Jake Jones) learnt the skills needed to survive in the alpine environment in the French and Austrian Alps.  In this presentation I'll share my adventures (the awesome, the exciting and the stupid), give tips on getting into mountaineering, offer advice for finding funding and subsidized  courses, and spread the stoke for alpinism!
 
See you there!
 

Location: ESB (Earth and Ocean Sciences) 2012

Time: 7:00 PM

Covert beverage drinking encouraged.

 

Posted: 2015-12-04 16:13:24
Last modified: 2016-01-05 14:24:21