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Summer courses

For several years La Chamoniarde has offered mountaineers hands-on mountain safety training.

Adult summer courses 2025 - Registration opens: TUESDAY 6 MAY at 9 a.m.

Rock Safety Weekend

La Chamoniarde offers a two-day training course to learn and revise the main knots and rope manoeuvres, with the aim of working safely on rocky terrain.

The programme includes:

  • Belay techniques (leader, second)
  • Making belays, ‘manipulating’ top rope and abseiling
  • Fall factor management (belay protection, pull management, type of belay) and placement of belay points
  • Setting up belays (long routes)
  • Helping the second in command (hauling), rescue manoeuvres (‘winding’ your companion, helping someone stuck in an abseil, etc.)
  • Basic first aid

Prerequisite: outdoor climbing (crag or long route), whatever your level!

Price: €170/trainee

Duration: 2 days (accommodation in the Chamonix valley to be arranged by participants)

Supervision: 2 high mountain guides, La Chamoniarde instructors

Group size: 8 people (4 people per guide)

ONLY FRENCH SPEAKING

Individual registrations or two people max.

This course does not lead to a qualification.

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ADVENTURE TERRAIN AND RIDGE RUNNING SAFETY WEEKEND !!NEW!!

 

La Chamoniarde is offering a two-day training course to help you master belay techniques and rock climbing techniques, as well as learning or revising rope manoeuvres and how to use belay devices for safe climbing.

The programme includes:

  • Equipment review
  • Progression techniques on short ropes and adventure terrain
  • Protecting the belay, managing the fall factor and pulling
  • Belaying on the move
  • Escape manoeuvres
  • First aid techniques

Prerequisite: have done a rock safety weekend or be autonomous on long routes and cliffs.


Price: 170€/trainee (excluding ski lifts: 1 day)


Duration: 2 days


Supervision: 2 high mountain guides, La Chamoniarde instructors


Group size: 8 people (4 people per guide)


ONLY FRENCH SPEAKING


Individual registrations or two people max.

This course does not lead to a qualification.

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Glacier Safety Weekend


La Chamoniarde offers two-day glacier safety courses with an overnight stay in a refuge. The aim is to master the techniques of moving around and rescue (roping up, anchoring, crevasse rescue) and to acquire basic knowledge of the high mountains.

Programme:

  • Reading the terrain
  • Progression techniques and adapting ropes to suit the terrain
  • Stopping a fall
  • Making anchors
  • Rescue and self-rescue techniques in crevasses
  • Basics of weather, alpine science and orientation
  • Basic first aid

Price: 150 €/trainee (excluding ski lifts, 1/2 board in refuge)

Duration: 2 days (1/2 board in refuge at the trainee's expense but booked by La Chamoniarde)

Supervision: 2 high mountain guides, La Chamoniarde instructors

Group size: 10 people (5 people per guide)

Individual registrations or two people max.

Prerequisite: You must have completed a number of self-sufficient high-mountain routes, such as the Aiguille du Tour, the Vallée Blanche traverse and the Grand Paradis. Know the basic knots and be in good physical condition.

ONLY FRENCH SPEAKING

Individual registrations or two people max.

This course does not lead to a qualification.

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FIRST AID AND RESCUE BASICS


La Chamoniarde offers a one-day basic mountain rescue and 1st aid course. The aim is to learn what to do in the event of a mountain accident (vital emergencies and trauma).


The programme includes:

  • First aid techniques
  • Use of available equipment, immobilisation and emergency evacuation
  • Backpacks and first-aid kits
  • Passing on an effective warning message
  • Preparing for the arrival of emergency services
  • Strategies in the event of a thunderstorm

Prerequisite: hiker, climber or mountaineer

Price: €50/trainee

Duration: 1 day

Supervision: 1 high mountain guide, La Chamoniarde trainer + 1 PGHM first aid officer

ONLY FRENCH SPEAKING

Individual registrations or two people max.

This course does not lead to a qualification.


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