The Ultimate Glacier Mountaineering Packing List
Mountaineering: known for beautiful glaciers, airy scrambles, alpine flora, pikas... and heavy packs. Half the sport is cutting weight as safely, and efficiently, as possible. Here's our go-to list.
Mountaineering: known for beautiful glaciers, airy scrambles, alpine flora, pikas... and heavy packs. Half the sport is cutting weight as safely, and efficiently, as possible. Here's our go-to list:
*Depending on the objective, conditions, team experience level, or preference, your list may vary!
- Mountaineering boots
- Approach shoes/trail runners
- Crampons
- Ice axe
- Lightweight gloves
- Harness
- Climbing helmet
- Rope
- Crevasse rescue kit. Ours consists of:
-- Picket (Yates V, mid-clip cable)
-- NanoTraxion on a locker
-- Tibloc on locker
-- Pulley on locker
-- Hollowblock / Prusik cord on locker
-- Double length sling on a carabiner (for extending your rappel/ascending out of the crevasse)
-- Single length sling on a carabiner (for girth hitching whatever you use to prep the crevasse lip to a deadman anchor... so it doesn't fall onto your already unlucky partner in the crevasse)
-- Belay device (guide mode capable for ascending out of/rappelling into the crevasse)
-- Optional spare locker and carabiner
- Seasonally dependent: skis/snowshoes, avalanche gear (beacon, probe, shovel, etc.)
- Optional radios
- Emergency gear/bivvy
- Emergency puffy jacket
- Standard day hiking/backpacking gear