Each NOLS mountaineering course is designed to deliver the fundamental skills you need to travel in high-altitude landscapes. You’ll develop mountaineering skills like rope handling, traveling over mixed glaciated terrain, and building anchors with an ice axe or other tools.

Mountaineering Courses Webinar. Whether you’re preparing for an upcoming Denali expedition or want to learn the essential skills to weekend warrior on glaciated peaks with friends, we have a full line-up of courses to help you achieve your mountain goals.

If big, glacier-clad mountains are what interest you, try one of the following courses for the best general introductions to mountain climbing. On these courses, you'll learn the basics like knots and hardware, self-arrest with an ice-axe, glacier travel, and crevasse rescue.

The Mountaineers offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced level climbing courses in every aspect of the sport, from Rock Climbing to Ice Climbing to Mountaineering. Also called "Mountaineering", alpine climbing will take you to the highest peaks in the Cascades and beyond.

Learn the fundamentals of rock-climbing and mountaineering – and summit Mt. Baker – in this six-day introductory course. No skier or rider should duck the ropes before taking a course in avalanche safety. AIARE's courses are cutting-edge. Weekends throughout the winter.

Whether your interest lies in simply joining an guided expedition to a mountain like Denali or Aconcagua, or in building the skill set to undertake your own climbs of Rainier, Baker, Glacier, or other iconic Northwest Mountains we have a program that will prepare you.

Alpinism 1 - Introduction to Mountaineering. This course provides a general introduction to the sport of mountain climbing, including one day of rock climbing and five days on Mt. Baker for a thorough introduction to glacier travel, crevasse rescue, self-arrest, and movement on snow and ice. The course culminates with a climb of Mt. Baker.